Building Telemetry Tracker

Short summary

A developer shares the journey of building Telemetry Tracker, an open-source, self-hostable telemetry tool built in TypeScript. The project supports error tracking, product analytics, custom events, and sessions with SDKs for React, Next.js, Vue, Node.js and more. The author reflects on how maintaining an open-source project — docs, PRs, community — requires entirely different skills from writing code.

• •Telemetry Tracker is an open-source self-hostable telemetry tool with SDKs for major frameworks
• •Author discovered maintaining OSS (docs, PRs, community) is as time-consuming as building it
• •Roadmap includes performance monitoring, alerts, and session replay

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