battles / Analytics
Clicky vs DataFast
Clicky ($20/mo/mo, vibe code 6/10) vs DataFast ($9/mo/mo, vibe code 6/10). Clicky is the easier one to rebuild yourself — here is what you lose either way.
Analytics
$20/mo/mo
- MVP
- 1 weekend
- Full replacement
- 3-6 months, due to high-throughput data ingestion optimization and heatmap aggregation at scale
easier to rebuild
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$9/mo/mo
- MVP
- weekend for the dashboard, multi-day to trust the numbers
- Full replacement
- weeks, not days
price gap / year
$132/mo
running both / year
$348/mo
our call
Start with Clicky — highest vibe code, weakest moat.
Clicky
Clicky's core value is ingesting JS beacon events and displaying real-time counters and heatmaps. A self-hosted lightweight alternative like Plausible or Umami can be deployed in minutes, making custom builds trivial for standard ecommerce traffic.
you can rebuild
- Real-time pageview and visitor event tracking
- DOM element click and interaction heatmaps
- Referrer and geolocation traffic breakdown
- Custom event tracking via JS API
- Uptime and response time monitoring
what you lose
- Managed high-throughput time-series infrastructure
- Proprietary bot and crawler filtering algorithms
- Out-of-the-box GDPR compliance without cookie consent banners
- Long-term historical log retention management
- Pre-configured legacy browser compatibility for tracking scripts
real moats
- Scalable high-concurrency time-series data storage
- Heuristic bot/spam traffic filter IP databases
- Historical analytics data persistence
DataFast
The pageview half of DataFast is the same weekend build as Plausible or Umami. The revenue half is where it stops being a weekend. Attribution is only worth anything if the anonymous visitor who found your launch post on a phone is still recognisably the customer who pays from a laptop three weeks later, and that stitching is exactly what an agent will hand you a naive version of. A localStorage id plus an email match at signup does get you a channel table that is directionally right for a single-domain solo product, which is genuinely worth having. It also quietly under-counts every cross-device path, every privacy browser that clears storage between visits, and every customer who pays with a different address than they signed up with. You can build the dashboard in a weekend. Trusting it enough to move ad spend is the part that keeps costing you weekends.
you can rebuild
- Record pageviews with their UTM and referrer channel, bind the anonymous visitor to a customer at signup, then take Stripe webhooks and show revenue per channel.
what you lose
- identity stitching across devices, browsers and cleared storage
- bot and AI-crawler filtering that stays current without you
- one-click installs for Shopify, Webflow, WordPress and 20 other platforms
- the live visitor feed and purchase-likelihood scoring
- the hosted MCP server and CLI for querying the data in plain English
real moats
- integrations
- scale-infra
- execution-polish
Questions people ask
Which is easier to rebuild with AI, Clicky or DataFast?
Clicky. It scores 6/10 on vibe code with a moat of 2/10, so an AI-assisted MVP takes about 1 weekend and a full replacement about 3-6 months, due to high-throughput data ingestion optimization and heatmap aggregation at scale.
Which one costs less, Clicky or DataFast?
DataFast at $9/mo/mo for a typical mid-market store. The gap between the two is about $132/mo a year.
What do I lose if I replace Clicky?
Managed high-throughput time-series infrastructure Proprietary bot and crawler filtering algorithms Out-of-the-box GDPR compliance without cookie consent banners
What do I lose if I replace DataFast?
identity stitching across devices, browsers and cleared storage bot and AI-crawler filtering that stays current without you one-click installs for Shopify, Webflow, WordPress and 20 other platforms
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