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Gaugehouse
Self-hosted site analytics, uptime checks and server status in one light app
- Score
- 55
- confidence 61
- Evidence
- 15
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 4
- named in sources
- First version
- 35 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop app
- PWA: runs in the browser, installs on Mac and Windows
- Market since
- 2005
- Mature market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Desktop app: DevOps engineers and developers monitor dashboards, configure analytics, review detailed logs and incident timelines for extended periods from a workstation. Sample screens on a computer, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
Overview
1 service degraded12,480
About this appAI proposal
Gaugehouse puts website traffic, uptime checks and server status on one dashboard that you run on your own infrastructure. Visitor data stays in your database. There is no third-party script host and no cloud account.
It is for developers and operators who run a handful of sites and services and are tired of one tool for visitors, another for pings and a terminal for server health. Market material says people leave analytics stacks that need several containers and gigabytes of idle memory.
Gaugehouse is designed as one small service with one database, so it installs as a single container. An outage and the traffic dip it causes show on the same timeline, so you see cause and effect together.
- Tagline
- Traffic, uptime and servers. One dashboard, on your own machine.
- Voice
- PlainCalmPrecise
- Why this name
- A gauge is how you read a machine at a glance; a house is somewhere you own and keep. Together: instruments you host yourself.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
One container, one database
Install with a single Docker image and one Postgres database. No separate event store or queue to run and patch.
No member yet
Privacy-first page analytics
Cookieless pageviews and events, referrers, countries and devices. No personal data is stored about visitors.
No member yet
Uptime checks
HTTP, TCP and certificate-expiry checks at set intervals, with retries before an alert fires.
No member yet
Server status agent
A tiny optional agent reports CPU, memory and disk so you can see host health beside your sites.
No member yet
Brand identityAI proposal
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Palette
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Typography
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Gaugehouse
PricingAI proposal
Verified: Umami lists paid plans from $20 to $200 a month and Plausible from $9 to $19 a month. Pro and Hosted sit in that range; the exact amounts are a starting point to test.
Community
Free
- Self-hosted, single container
- Analytics, uptime checks, server agent
- Up to 5 sites and 10 checks
- Community support
Pro
$15 a month
- Unlimited sites and checks
- Weekly reports and status pages
- Alert channels and quiet hours
- Updates and email support
Hosted
$25 a month
- We run it for you
- Everything in Pro
- Daily backups and export
What it could be worthEstimate
What a software business making this much sells for today, from real deals. Pick a monthly revenue.
If it makes
Worth about
$194,000
Sale range $132,000 to $263,000
$120,000 a year in revenue
From 87 software businesses listed and sold on Empire Flippers in the last year, revenue vetted by the broker: they sell for about 19× their monthly revenue, most between 13× and 26×.
Measured on profit, the middle deal is 32× monthly net profit: about 2.7 years of profit.
An estimate, not an offer or financial advice. A real price depends on profit, growth, churn, how much of the work is the owner's, and the buyer.
How it would growAI proposal
How the product would reach new customers through its own use, and how the first ones would be found. A plan to test, not a result.
- Built-in loop
- Shared outputs. Public status pages and weekly report links carry a small 'Run on Gaugehouse' mark. Clients and site visitors who open them see the product name and can follow it to the install page.
- Do they become customers?
- Viewers of a status page are often developers or site owners, but many are only customers. Test how many status-page visits turn into installs, and how many installs turn into Pro.
- First customers
- Freelance developers and small agencies running 5 to 30 client sites on their own VPS, who already use a self-hosted uptime tool and a privacy analytics tool.
- Where to reach them
- Self-hosting communities: Post a short demo and install guide in self-hosted and homelab forums and subreddits, and answer setup questions.
- Open GitHub repository: Publish the core under a source-available license with a clear install guide, and collect stars and issues.
- Hacker News launch: Show a post on the one-container design and its idle memory use, with numbers measured on a small server.
- First milestone
- Twenty installs in use for 30 days and five paying Pro or Hosted customers among freelancers and small agencies.
Why people already pay for this
- VerifiedGitHub repository gained 3106 stars in 1136 days
- Public claimMarket exists for analytics and monitoring solutions that integrate multiple concerns: the signal lists analytics, uptime monitoring, and server status as three distinct capabilities offered together.
- Public claimTeams find cloud analytics platforms inadequate: Tianji explicitly positions itself as "not only another GA alternative", indicating differentiation against Google Analytics.
- AI inferenceSelf-hosted deployment is a desired alternative: the topics include 'self-hosted', 'selfhosted', 'docker', indicating that audiences seek on-premise control rather than cloud dependency.
Tech stack
Every proposal builds on the same PWA base, installable from the browser on any phone or computer. Dashed boxes are what this app adds.
- AppNext.js and TypeScript
- PWAManifest and service worker
- UITailwind CSS
- Data and authSupabase Postgres
- PaymentsStripe
- EmailResend
- HostingVercel
- This app · DistributionDocker image with compose fileSelf-hosting is the core promise, so installation must be one command on the buyer's own server.
- This app · Server agentSmall static binary for LinuxReports CPU, memory and disk to the dashboard without needing a large monitoring stack.
RisksAI inference
- CommercialFree self-hosted tools already exist for analytics and for uptime. People may not pay for a combined one unless setup is clearly easier and lighter.
- TechnicalStoring events in Postgres alone may slow down at high traffic. The one-container promise holds only up to a volume that needs testing.
- CommercialSelf-hosted licenses are easy to share or bypass, so revenue may depend on the hosted plan and on support.
- RegulatoryClaims of cookieless, no-consent analytics need checking against privacy rules in each region before they appear in marketing.
- TechnicalA monitor on the same host it watches goes down with it. Users need an outside check, which adds a hosted piece.
Everything marked AI proposal or AI inference was written by a model from the evidence on the opportunity page. The proposed name must be checked against trademark registers before it is used.