I Built a Website Analytics Tool That Sends Notifications to Discord and Telegram

Hey!! I thought I would share my thought train and a bit of my build process. This is definitely my favorite build of the year, I got to work with servers and bots.

It started with a pretty simple problem.

I was building websites and experimenting with products, and naturally, I wanted to understand what people were doing on them.

Who was visiting? Which pages were they exploring? Were people signing up? Where were they dropping off?

You know, the usual questions every developer or founder eventually asks.

But I had two problems.

First, I didn't always have the time to keep opening analytics dashboards just to check what was happening.

Second, a lot of the analytics tools I came across were either too expensive for where I was as a founder or offered more complexity than I actually needed.

I didn't want another dashboard full of numbers that I had to remember to check.

I wanted to know when something happened.

A new visitor. A signup. A conversion. A sudden traffic spike.

And I wanted to understand the journey behind those numbers.

That's when the idea for DataQuest started.

It began as a personal solution

Initially, I wasn't thinking about building another SaaS product.

I just wanted something that solved my own problem.

What if website analytics could come directly to the tools I already used every day?

I was already spending time on Discord, so why couldn't my website analytics live there too?

Instead of opening a dashboard every few hours, I could receive notifications when something important happened.

That became the foundation of DataQuest.

Then came the building part

Of course, having an idea and actually building it are two very different things.

I started working on the tracking system, figuring out how to collect website events and send them to a backend reliably.

Then came the dashboard.

I wanted more than just a visitor counter. I wanted to see how people moved through a website.

A visitor landing on a homepage, exploring the pricing page, checking features and eventually signing up tells a much more interesting story than a pageview count.

So user journeys became an important part of DataQuest.

I also wanted the integration to be simple. Developers shouldn't need to spend hours configuring analytics just to understand their own websites.

The unexpected challenges

Getting the first version working was only the beginning.

There were issues with data collection, event delivery, deployment and making sure analytics remained reliable even when the backend wasn't always awake.

I had to rethink how events were queued, retried and delivered.

I also spent time fixing integration issues and making sure the numbers shown in the dashboard actually reflected what was happening on the website.

Because what's the point of analytics if you can't trust the data?

I learned that building an analytics product isn't just about collecting events. It's about making sure those events are accurate, delivered and presented in a way that makes sense.

From Discord to Telegram

The original idea was to bring analytics into Discord.

But I wanted to make DataQuest useful to more people, so Telegram became another integration.

Now users can receive important website activity directly through either platform.

Some of the things DataQuest supports include:

• Real-time visitor monitoring.
• Signup and sign-in notifications.
• Custom event tracking.
• Conversion monitoring.
• Traffic spike alerts.
• User journey visualization.
• Country, browser and referral insights.

It's also built around cookieless tracking.

The goal has always been to make analytics simpler and more accessible.

What DataQuest looks like today

What started as a solution to my own frustration has turned into a working analytics product.

It works with any web stack and takes around 30 seconds to integrate.

You can monitor your website, understand how visitors navigate it and receive important updates through Discord or Telegram.

I'm also working on making the product easier to access and pay for, recently completing and testing its Whop payment integration.

There's still plenty to improve, but seeing the original idea become something people can actually use has been incredibly rewarding.

Why I'm sharing this

I'm still on the journey of building DataQuest and finding its first paying customers.

I don't have a huge team or an enormous budget behind this. I'm figuring things out, shipping improvements and learning as I go.

And honestly, that's part of what makes building interesting.

Sometimes the best product ideas don't come from trying to invent something revolutionary.

They come from being frustrated with something that already exists and deciding to solve the problem yourself.

For me, that problem was analytics.

I'd love to hear from other developers and indie founders:

Have you ever built a product because the existing solutions were too expensive, too complicated or simply didn't fit the way you work?

I'd be interested to hear your stories.

If you'd like to see what I've been building:

DataQuest

DataQuest: Your users are moving. Watch them.