Summer of Code Ep.1 ☀️ - Introducing My New SaaS Project 😃

Follow along as I am starting a brand new project from scratch. We'll discuss some architecture as well as the business case from a software engineer point of view.
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[@camilla-bs3rt]

"the camera you introduced is so so small.. i afraid to lost it lol I work remotly.. just going to buy one "

[@AmbientClassical]

In my opinion, coders often have difficulty selecting viable business ideas. The more technically minded someone is, the harder it is to see the forest through the trees.

[@withmarko]

Hey thanks for the feedback! 😃 Why do you think this is not a viable business?

[@UserStoryCoach]

Google Analytics is free in this space and very mature. With that said, you may discover a unique niche with fresh eyes on the problem that creates an opportunity. Also something to be said about discovering for yourself how to build something and this certainly sounds like a great learning experience no matter the business outcome!

[@withmarko]

Yes, I'm excited about the learning experience. However the reason I believe this is a viable idea is that Google Analytics is overly complex, requires a steep learning curve and it's not GDPR compliant.

[@Sonarctica]

@@withmarko have you seen plausible or piwik

[@withmarko]

Yes I am very much inspired by Plausible, but I have some things I'd like to do differently than them, I'll share that in the vlogs! 😃

[@felixdahlin1710]

Really excited to see where this ends up. Great start to the series and cool to see how you visualize the architecture in this early stage.

[@withmarko]

Thank you, glad you liked it 😊

[@jimmyboygames4125]

Glad you are coming to Greece, you will love it here!!!

[@JohnnyBouch]

Genuinely love the style of your vlogs / videos! The window manager is an absolute godsend! Good luck with the the email project

[@withmarko]

Hey thanks, I'm working on the new episode 😃

[@thatnubarin]

yayy for the sketches all the way, love your art!!

[@thomasschoofs5229]

Dust in the wind! Kansas is an amazing band. Love it. Always love the videos!

[@lucaspiresr]

really really enjoyed the mix of packing, traveling and the behind the scenes of creating a project 😃

[@withmarko]

Hey thank you 😊

[@EduardoHenrique-nd1ro]

Always good to have a notification from your channel, Marko! Thanks for sharing! Cheers from Brazil! Song: dust in the wind?

[@withmarko]

Hey thank you Eduardo! Yes you got the song 😃😃 Cheers my friend 😃

[@MrsSpuck]

Go for it Marko!! Love your videos!! btw the song is Dust in the wind :)

[@leoshrek2201]

If you’re using postgresql consider timescaledb for better performance. Also use materialized views for precomputing analytics. A better database choice would be clickhouse as it has automatic materialized view refresh.

[@jsfs]

hope you enjoyed travelling and best of luck with the project!

[@withmarko]

Hey yes, thank you 😊

[@radevych1]

Will wait for result! Your example is very inspired for me

[@withmarko]

Hey I’m gonna post more updates on the vlog 😃

[@kaiquesampaiotavares1210]

man, your content is in another level! I'm watching you from Brazil

[@withmarko]

Hey thank you, man! 😃🇧🇷

[@andriikostiv5502]

Wish you all the best with this project, and thank you for sharing your approach - it allowed me to reflect on how I prototype and develop web application

[@withmarko]

Hey thank you, best of luck with your projects as well! 😊

[@zikaperic2133]

parallel storytelling is awesome!

[@moon0xcoder]

Nice video Marko :) The idea you came up with is really cool and interesting, I'm definitely looking forward to see that demo soon!

[@withmarko]

Hey thank you, I'm excited to work on a new video! 😊

[@brenoallencs7073]

Wowwwww Dust in the wind, I love to play eletric guitar i was playing a few minutes ago and you apeared just playing hahahah thats awesome, "I close my eyes only for a moment and the moment's gone"

[@eavencs5887]

Thanks for this vlog, I have also been thinking about giving ir a coding challenge this summer.

[@stmanmoments4538]

Welcome to Greece, have fun!!

[@MikeTheCook]

Welcome to Greece Marko! 👏💙

[@dev1101]

obsessed with your channel video 😊😊😍😍

[@Trainsforlife89]

Good luck with your project! Been following you for a while, enjoying all your work and beautiful Norway. Welcome to my country, Greece! Have the best time and please be careful of the scorching hot sun. Greetings from a train driver, tech enthusiast and follower of yours!

[@vladik8321]

It’s Norway, not Finland 🙂

[@withmarko]

Hey thank you for the comment 😃 great point about the sun, I’m always trying to be careful! Wow did you know that at the Kahoot office we used to play those long train ride videos from the pov of the train driver 😃😃

[@Trainsforlife89]

@@withmarko Oh i do that too when i have people over at home with my wife. It does noy distract yet it seems like you are really travelling when you take a glance at it. Enjoy your vacation and take care.

[@Trainsforlife89]

@@withmarko Haha, i do it too on my days off. It is truly relaxing and you can get to see many parts of the world too. It looks mesmerizing on screen but for me it is pure concentration but also a little fun too, when driving my freight trains.

[@GabrielSoares-qx7xh]

Man, I just watched 25 seconds, scenes is incredible!!

[@jsaillok]

Greetings from Grreece! I hope you spent good time here! Good luck with the new project.

[@withmarko]

Hey!! I love coming to Greece every year 😃🇬🇷 Thanks!

[@kizo-niklas]

Awesome way of combining a lifestyle blog with tech talk! For the business idea, the space seems super interesting, the question though is how can you set yourself apart? I feel like with analytics there are already a ton of tools out there and still most people just use Google Analytics. But will be interesting to see how you implement it within your OneWindow application!!

[@withmarko]

Hey thank you, that’s a great question! In contrast to GA, I would love to focus on privacy and ease of use. Secondly I’m sure that in the process of making this product in the open I’ll be able to get very valuable feedback that will help inform my decisions. But I am very excited to share how Im using it myself as I go 😃

[@user-xu9om2vz9b]

@@withmarko in the video (3:57) you said that third criteria of your start up idea - it should be something that you had experience with... didn't get how much experience you have with analytics, and what problems businesses have with tools such GA, which your solution will solve...

[@kizo-niklas]

@@withmarko thanks for replying! Will definitely be following along your process :)

[@MrMcPeon]

@@withmarkoYeah GA is definately not the only one. In the security operations space we often use Splunk, Elastic, Datadog etc. and depending on the network architecture some advanced data pipelines like Cribl Stream. A lot of them can be hosted by yourself, be it onprem or the cloud, so the privacy point is already taken into account. Definately a lot of solutions on the market. Don't want to talk you out of it, but there really is a ton of big data/analytics plattforms with it's own set of USP's. That's why the argument that not a lot of people would want to build this kind of app, doesn't quite work in my mind. There's already so many ^^' Maybe a specialization on a certain set of logs/API's with prebuilt Dashboards would be a worthwhile USP. Just like the big ones do already for the security or cloud space. Pozdrav!

[@heyl9580]

​@@withmarko There are many other options that respect users privacy, such as Plausible or Umami (this one can be self-hosted). But I had in the back of my head a similar idea to create privacy friendly analytics that will be easy to scale and will provider more info than just how many users visited site. Some funnels, some performance analytics

[@jovanav3]

Hey Marko, great video. Excited about your new SaaS project! Wish you all the luck with it! p.s. props for picking TrackMania:)

[@withmarko]

Hey thanks, I'm excited to work some more on it, and see where it goes! 😃 TM forever! 🏎️

[@BootlegSounds]

Lovely! Greetings from Nea Kallikateia where I am on vacation right now 👋🏻

[@toniguli]

Awwww that Dust in the Wind hit me hard! Great video!

[@withmarko]

Hey I’m glad you liked it 😊

[@user-yb9ue8hv8e]

You draw so beautifully!

[@withmarko]

Thank you 😊🙏

[@petergerendeli2891]

nice vid bro! I'm always watching your videos first hand, cannnot say anything else just to keep it up!

[@zsa90]

The difference you can make is not enabling people to log or send analytics (a lot of services already exists for this), but the way we traverse / lookup the information from the logs, analytics. Think about how developers look at logs and why, and what are the use cases. There is a lot of potential there.

[@parikshitsinghrathore6130]

I think it is going to be some tough space to crack. If you are planning for logs, ELK stack already exists which provide a lot of options as well as it is open source. If you are planning something for metrics then Grafanaa(also open source) and datadog are widely used.

[@withmarko]

Hey yes, that's true, but even if it's not a successful project financially, I think I can still learn a lot along the way 😃

[@HossamMohsin]

It is really relaxing to watch your videos

[@danhelgeland]

dust in the wind, lovely song

[@sjtgs]

Travel vlog. I love your videos . Great inspiration.

[@DmytroBoyko]

Very nice storytelling, Marko! kudos

[@withmarko]

Thank you! 😊

[@sambranisa6500]

Wow, you really played a lot with high production, amazing job :D

[@withmarko]

Hey thank you 😊🙏

[@GK-qv3xd]

Welcome to Greece Marko !

[@billakos_san4479]

Welcome to Greece mate, Hopefully you will have a great time here! The internet speeds are a common issue in greece especially in the islands, imagine that in most islands the (not all of them) the highest internet connection you can get is 24mbps, and in mainland telecommunication companies just started setting up Fiber connections with 1gbps speed... Yeah we have sun but i our internet sucks big time.

[@withmarko]

Hey thank you! 😃🇬🇷 I don't mind the internet, the beautiful nature and amazing people more than make up for any inconvenience with the connection ☀️

[@MikaNever]

Awesome style for a video!

[@ludwig8384]

Always a fun watch. Keep it up!

[@withmarko]

Hey thanks! 😊

[@beastnighttv]

Ayyy a new Marko Video 🎉🎉🎉

[@watchen]

I close my eyeeeeeeeesss, Only for a moment and the moment's gone

[@Szyma]

Dust in the wind by Kansas love it

[@jessicamaemabini559]

How do you call it..? controll it with your hand is amazing...

[@richardsamonte11]

camera hand tracking feature you talking about? yeah I think so!

[@sneigee]

that's awesome mann... stay blessed

[@mateofranciulli8224]

Loving the idea ❤

[@uwatchingUNICORN]

150 k ❤ ...... Congratulations Marko ,❤❤❤❤

[@withmarko]

Hey thank you 😊🙌

[@johnright430]

Good luck for you

[@storm6909]

great video, cheers from Brazil 🇧🇷

[@emilianodev]

i am web developer and i live in Greece. i like to see you bro 👍🏼

[@PapadopoulosS]

Welcome to my country Greece mate ! Να περάσεις όμορφα .

[@jensen9589]

Good luck with your project! 😜a programmer from China

[@evanugorji2535]

Clicked immediately I saw the notification. Can’t miss your videos

[@withmarko]

Hey thank you, that means a lot 😊🙌

[@eugen_bln]

Love the cat 🐱 And I stayed at the same hotel in Stockholm when I were there, good choice 😂

[@Aashutosh_Bajaj]

Hello Marko, I see your videos almost daily and I really like them. One suggestion regarding a project which you can make is giving a notification in windows that the text is copied, or something like that. If there is a software of this kind please let me know. Thank you so much, Keep up the good work. Regards

[@Younoski]

Omg,it’s incredible😍

[@withmarko]

Hey thanks 😊

[@dimitris2691982]

Hello Marko!!! Come to Corfu!!! Greetings from Greece !!!!

[@Panayot17]

As always, great video. I am currently in Greece on a business trip. It's good for you to rest))

[@withmarko]

Hey thank you 😊 I did take some nice time off 😃

[@vibxz2760]

Yo im a viewer for about 1 year and you inspired me to start learning coding. oh and guess what... I leave in greece, hope you have a perfect time here

[@yan3735]

Amazing video!

[@jdgrass6134]

So first off, yay to the drawings. They are really nice and I like the fact that you're trying to integrate more of your interests in the video. Second, do you feel comfortable playing the guitar where we can hear it? I'd like to hear you play if possible. Third, I am really not experienced in app development or coding of any kind really. The most I can do with these videos is keep up and actually understand what you're talking about, but that doesn't mean I like them any less. But you do make me wish I knew how to code better so I could give you some actual decent feedback but I will just cheer you on from the comments section, you're awesome and I love you and your videos!

[@withmarko]

Hey thank you, I'm glad you like this more creative style of video, it's also more enjoyable for me to make. That intro part was me actually playing, I recorded it with a lav mic on the guitar 😄 But I'm not in great musical shape, since I don't have a guitar in Oslo, and I only know the songs I learned years ago 😄 Thank you for such a positive message, I'd be happy to help you learn more about coding if you like. You can join the discord and ask me any questions if you decide to give it a go! discord.gg/4UmRbQh7VA Thanks again for such a nice comment!

[@ftwelsh]

The song was "Hey there Delilah" and great project

[@letrangN]

your sketches are great!!

[@withmarko]

Thank you 😊

[@Stiv_13]

Happy coding! Good luck!

[@sabinhogui]

nice video marko!

[@JonathanLeeDev]

Cool idea for a project!

[@withmarko]

Hey I’m glad you like it 😃

[@MJAlberts]

Yay sketches!

[@user-tu3fm1bo9w]

I like the mashup of lifestyle and Dev content. How do you plan on capturing and storing customer event data?

[@withmarko]

Hey thanks! 😃 I plan on having a basic script that can be used to capture simple website analytics automatically, and then an API similar to Amplitude for capturing user interaction data. I'm still considering different ways of storing the data, but from a high level it will be an analytics DB for querying and then a file store for backups 😃

[@giorgosr27]

The greek message surprised me lol. Good luck with your projects.

[@withmarko]

Haha, thank you 😊

[@DawidTkoczPL]

Nice one! Fingers crossed! :)

[@PilatoByte]

Great vid!!

[@neiledwarddelacruz9419]

youre good at drawing!

[@ayyubme]

Great video series 🎉

[@withmarko]

Hey thank you 😊🙏

[@karmatraining]

I just migrated my personal project to Firebase and it SLAAAAAAPS

[@KANCIAPAGAMINGROOM]

I really like your vlogs! :)

[@vorant94]

It would be nice to also hear about potential competitors research for your analytics app and why you think it can overcome them

[@withmarko]

Hey thanks for the suggestion! 😊 This part will be covered in the following episodes! In short, it's all about having the distribution and building a brand. I'm not going to initially compete on product features, but rather on my ability to reach a wide audience. I don't necessarily have to sell directly to my audience, but over time I've come to realize that the people watching my vlog are quite knowledgeable and are excited to try out the things I'm making. This in turn will give me a lot of valuable feedback and allow me to create a very polished and well balanced product, that could appeal to a large similar audience down the road.

[@FooFie2131]

I have watched your video about working in Kahoot office about year ago. I was 13, and I dreamt to have job in IT, buy macbook. Now Im FullStack Developer in government company and bought macbook😁 That video gave me a lot of motivation, thx bro!

[@ahmeteminsancar5684]

Very nice video! Keep up the good work. And also could you please tell me your backpack?

[@abdulkadirbalci]

have fun all summer long☺..

[@withmarko]

Hey thanks you too 😃

[@alexmackey1994]

great video thanks for it

[@Carlosttmm]

Hello Marko, I would like to use the analytics app and also would love to have a quick zoom or google meet call one day to tell you about my business because I know it will work for you. Also, I am a big fan of your blog! Best,

[@user-ue7gt1rv2l]

ayyyyy it is really good video keep up the good work

[@withmarko]

Hey, thank you 😊

[@user-ue7gt1rv2l]

@@withmarko no problem ;)

[@fcr6587]

2:02 the plant... good ui, bad ux hahah

[@Victorhbertani]

At 6:46 a very common plant in Brazil appears, it is often used in stews, rich in collagen, we call it ora-pro-nobis.

[@Javascript_official]

Love your videos!

[@withmarko]

Thank you 😃

[@RandomDude_404]

13 minutes and already 896 views?? your content is great man keep it up!

[@withmarko]

Hey thank you 😊🙏

[@srgdev]

I would use NATS over Kafka ... much easier to configure IMO. Great video! Can't wait for more! Also, why not just fly from Noway? :)

[@withmarko]

Hey thanks for introducing me to NATS, I've never seen it before but looks super cool!

[@tavin136]

Dust in the Wind - Kansas!

[@manueldavid9563]

The Witcher, Nice :D

[@omgrun2258]

yay for the sketches Marko! We need more!

[@withmarko]

Hey I’ll try to draw a few more, thank you! 😊

[@cristianmihali3456]

First!! Thank you Marko!!!

[@withmarko]

Hey yes, congrats 😃🙌

[@mikestrives]

Excited about your new SaaS project! Hard to say what to think of it, can you hone in on the differentiators from existing analytics software? 💪

[@withmarko]

Hey Mike! Great to see a comment from you who are more experienced in the SaaS space 🙌 At the moment I can describe what I want to make like this: If GA is Jira, I want to make Trello. I know there is Plausible already, but I'd love to make a more general tool. If Plausible is Apple Notes, I'd like to make something like Notion.

[@mikestrives]

@@withmarko haha love that! I'm actually using Plausible, so yeah, def a market for better analytics. If you want, we can connect and brainstorm 😍

[@withmarko]

Hey that would be very cool! Please find me on discord and we can chat! discord.gg/4UmRbQh7VA

[@nickolas224]

Great vid. What backpack is that?

[@kotlashashank4767]

Hello Marko, I found this video while exploring random video on KZbin. Btw Nice video and I'm done with subscribe also I'm going to explore videos on your channel . Keep it up 👍🏼 waiting for upcoming videos.

[@bestchannels3471]

Its Dust in the Wind from Kansas!

[@ayouberrazki]

in a benchmarking perspective, Google analytics holds even more data for a reasonable price, I wish you all the best but you have a hell of a lot of competition

[@pimphilippens3392]

What bag are you using? It looks nice!

[@sombraelerizo]

My man is having a perfect example of a ''Busman's Holiday''.