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24 alternatives to Jig – a tool to define, compute and monitor metrics

Hi HN, 8 months ago, I posted “Ask HN: I built it nobody came, what now?” and got a ton of (not very optimistic) feedback [1]. I took away 3 things: 1. The message wasn’t properly targeted 2. The onboarding experience was terrible. 3. Someone posted some advice to find leads which actually worked, yeah! So here we are. 8 months later. I unfortunately didn’t have a lot of time to put in the tool itself. But I improved the website, improved the onboarding, and got a paying customer who seems to really like the software. So here it is in its current form. Let me know what you think would make…

Jig is a tool for defining, computing, and monitoring metrics. It allows users to track and measure key performance indicators across their systems. The product is designed for teams that need to establish consistent… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Jig – a tool to define, compute and monitor metrics launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Jig▲4

    A tool to define, compute, and monitor your metrics

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Typo▲652

    Better code, faster deployments, productive dev teams

    2023 · typoapp.io · its alternatives →

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    Ji.Hn▲90

    Shorten your links, track, target or rotate them

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Weave▲237

    Hey HN, We’re building Weave: an ML-powered tool to measure engineering output, that actually understands engineering output! Why? Here’s the thing: almost every eng leader already measures output - either openly or behind closed doors. But they rely on metrics like lines of code (correlation with effort: ~0.3), number of PRs, or story points (slightly better at ~0.35). These metrics are, frankly, terrible proxies for productivity. We’ve developed a custom model that analyzes code and its impact directly, with a far better 0.94 correlation. The result? A standardized engineering output…

    2025 · app.workweave.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN. We’re Jay and Vadim from Highlight.io (https://highlight.io). We’re building an open source [1] monitoring platform for web applications. Today we’re excited to be sharing a performance tool we’ve been working on, which helps you inspect the latency of code execution from the client to the server. As engineers at past startups, we often had to debug slow queries, poor load times, inconsistent errors, etc... While tools like Jaegar [2] helped us inspect server-side performance, we had no way to tie user events to the traces we were inspecting. In other words, although we had…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Haystack▲319

    Ship faster and improve dev happiness

    2021 · usehaystack.io · its alternatives →

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    Collect user feedback & measure analytics in just 30 seconds

    2025 · feedback.plgos.com · its alternatives →

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    Real-time and advanced periodic alerts for Google Analytics.

    2017 · metric.live · its alternatives →

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    Quickly collect and visualize custom metrics

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Your most important metrics, live in Notion

    2020 · notionmetrics.com · its alternatives →

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    ROAARRR▲182

    Hey HN, I built ROAARRR because most analytics tools make it hard to get clear answers. You spend hours setting up dashboards and connecting data, but you still don’t really know what drives growth. ROAARRR brings your key data together and shows your funnel from awareness to revenue. You can track product activity, create charts for specific events, and see how changes affect retention and revenue. It’s free to try today. I’d love your feedback, especially on what feels confusing or missing.

    Nov 2025 · roaarrr.app · its alternatives →

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    Track website visitors with Counter, a privacy-friendly analytics tool. Get daily unique visitor counts, referrer information, and geographical locations. Our open source web analytics tool makes it easy to understand your web traffic. Get started today and pay what and when you want!

    2023 · counter.dev · its alternatives →

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    Get 360° answers to any business question in seconds

    2024 · app.jigso.io · its alternatives →

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    Outline your tracking events right on your website

    2024 · its alternatives →

  15. 15IM

    TLDR: I made a public only web analytics without signup. Stores views and visitors for 10 days before deleting data. Exactly 25 days ago today I posted here, proud of my new web analytics. The response was mixed and my post even got flagged (understandable). It was my first real launch and I actually made a sale just a day later of 49$(!). Back then my project was pay once, keep forever. Since then I have sadly went over to the dark side (subscription based). Anyways, I never went back to look at the post after the first two hours, turns out I got a lot of answers. Most answers was something…

    2024 · indielytics.link · its alternatives →

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    Analytics▲108

    Know thy startup: metrics & triggers for growth

    2020 · domainriviera.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi all! I built Spikelog because I kept wanting to track simple numbers over time but every time I looked at proper observability tools, I'd bounce off the setup complexity. I wanted to make something that didn't require a lot of thinking to use. Spikelog is made to be as simple as possible: - POST a JSON with chart name + value (you can add some tags as well but I've not tested this part works yet) - Chart appears automatically - 1,000 point rolling window per chart (old data expires, no retention config) - Max 10 charts That's basically the whole product. I built it in about a day using…

    Nov 2025 · spikelog.com · its alternatives →

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    Senior full stack software engineer with 8+ years shipping production systems in React, Node.js, Python, and Rails. Previously a Product Engineer at Ghost. Based in South Korea.

    2021 · ronaldlangeveld.com · its alternatives →

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    The simplest, fastest, & cheapest way to monitor performance

    2020 · requestmetrics.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey there! Signals is a survey system that collects feedback from staff (mostly) but also clients and stakeholders in a business. It does this via SMS on a weekly schedule (the cadence can be changed but it works best when done weekly). My co-founder and I started working on this nearly a year ago, having run similar small builds for over four years. This time we’ve tried to do it properly. The execution is relatively simple - similar to an eNPS (Net Promoter Score - a common way of measuring how consumers like your product or service), but we wanted a way to anonymously pass candid feedback…

    2023 · runsignals.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN! My co-founder, Vijay and I are excited to open up Oodle for everyone. We used to be observability geeks at Rubrik. Our metrics bills grew like 20x over 4 years. We tried to control spend by getting better visibility, blocking high cardinality labels like pod_id, cluster_id, and customer_id. But that made debugging issues complicated. App engineers hated blocking metrics, and blocking others' code reviews was not fun for platform engineers either! Migrations (and lock-ins) were very painful, the first migration from Influx to Signalfx took 6+ months and the second migration from…

    2024 · blog.oodle.ai · its alternatives →

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    Probe▲29

    Your SaaS metrics in Slack. Fast.

    2020 · getprobe.io · its alternatives →

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    Haystack empowers engineering teams with real-time insights into their team’s performance, helping you remove bottlenecks and accelerate delivery. By integrating directly with tools like JIRA and GitHub, we provide a unified view of your entire delivery lifecycle—allowing you to clean, connect, and

    2020 · usehaystack.io · its alternatives →

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    Custom AI models that scale with your stack

    2025 · jigsawstack.com · its alternatives →

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