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Dominik Sumer

@dominiksumer.com
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Follow my journey building: 📊 @vemetric.com 💻 @snappify.com

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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 29/09/2026
Vemetric's ingestion engine can now be scaled horizontally 🚀 Outbid's viral launch broke Vemetric and showed me I had to change something. I'm confident that Vemetric is now able to handle such viral launches I published this follow-up blog post 👇 vemetric.com/blog/scalin...
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Making Vemetric's Ingestion Horizontally Scalable
A follow-up to the Outbid post-mortem: what I changed in Vemetric's ingestion pipeline, so it can scale horizontally and handle traffic spikes without losing data.
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 20/09/2026
big companies shipping slopsites like this 😢 try.cloudflare.com
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 07/09/2026
never had a model rush through my Codex limits as fast as Astra and its _significantly_ faster
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 07/09/2026
This one has been in the pipeline for a bit too long: the Globe View is now live in Vemetric! 🥳 It let's you see from where people visit your website and product. Either live or for a specific time frame.
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 31/08/2026
honestly, the process of creating videos with Codex + the Remotion plugin by pointing to your code base so it knows how your UI looks & feels is so awesome can't wait to show you the final result and share some insights how I'm currently running my video creation process
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 26/08/2026
in the past week the amount of active projects on Vemetric almost doubled not bad :D .. very grateful for that growth!
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 27/07/2026
this espresso machine is easily one of my best investments so far in 2026 after trying a few different beans and experiments, I‘m super happy with how my daily coffee tastes 1/2
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 05/06/2026
part of running an analytics product: cleaning up data for users that got DDOS'd .. yesterday that was the case again :D 1/2
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 04/06/2026
Monthly update for @vemetric.com: May 2026 🌏 🌐 153 Active Projects (+4) ⭐️ 351 GitHub Stars (+4) 📈 2.497.943 Events Tracked (+524.078) 💰 $190 MRR (+$7) Checkout below what happened this month 👇
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 01/06/2026
when the globe is constantly rotating, I stop it while changing the theme, so the transition is still smooth 😄
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 29/05/2026
now showing notifications when new users join on the globe clicking them will focus the user on the globe ✌️
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 28/05/2026
"I'm simultaneously extremely AI pilled and very bullish on humans" is the best statement I heard today
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 28/05/2026
I'm ensuring that the globe experience on Vemetric will be suuuper smooth 🤌 again it's taking me longer than I would have liked, but it will be worth it :D
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 26/05/2026
since today, Vemetric has its first customer on the 500k events plan! 🥳 (an existing user upgraded his plan) that's a huge milestone and I'm very proud to serve users with so much traffic :D
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 21/05/2026
making sure the markers on the globe overlap each other correctly, depending on the current rotation and angle you look at them
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 19/05/2026
We‘re living in times where updating your dependencies either leads to fixing or introducing vulnerabilities, you flip a coin 🙃
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 15/05/2026
the hard question with a new MacBook is if you should put stickers on the clean plate or not 😬
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 14/05/2026
got myself a new coffee machine a few weeks ago and oh boy I‘m enjoying it a lot :D it’s my first espresso machine, and my first time using ground coffee .. so a whole new world opened up 😬
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 13/05/2026
nice what a little HN comment can do :) you can see the live results here: dub.sh/FfJP8Of not the biggest impact yet, but it's always about spreading the word and getting more eyes on your product 🫡
Screenshot of Vemetric's Dashboard showing 36 visitors from Hacker News in the past 24 hours
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 13/05/2026
hello my dear
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 12/05/2026
It was about time to add proper Uptime Monitoring + a Public Status page for Vemetric :D Powered by phare.io 🙌
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 11/05/2026
I already wanted to rework Vemetric's landing page for some time, and last week I got a push to tackle it so there you go, I just released a new Hero Section for Vemetric's LP :D happy for any kind of feedback, especially regarding the new copy
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 06/05/2026
making some progress with the new Globe view in Vemetric :) maan I'm missing working on such things more often
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 04/05/2026
Monthly update for @vemetric.com: April 2026 👷‍♂️ 🌐 149 Active Projects (+6) ⭐️ 347 GitHub Stars (+3) 📈 1.973.865 Events Tracked (+736.922) 💰 $183 MRR (+$8)
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 03/05/2026
the playground got a fresh new coat ✌️ what an annoying type of work 😅 but I‘m happy with the outcome :D
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 01/05/2026
I did a thing :) My M1 Pro served me soo well in the past 5 years, an incredible machine .. but I experienced some friction recently, especially when running multiple projects and tasks simultaneously so it's time for an upgrade 🚀
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 01/05/2026
yesterday I did it! I upgraded Vemetric's main analytics database (Clickhouse) to the latest version after letting it slip for a longer time now I'm already feeling so much more confident doing such upgrades and migrations in production with zero downtime .. feels great :)
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 29/04/2026
Vemetric itself might not have a lot of daily users / visitors yet (around 150) .. but my users have! so it’s important to setup a proper and scalable infrastructure right from the start, so I can handle my users‘ traffic without a problem 💪
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 23/04/2026
instead of doom scrolling while I‘m on the go / waiting, I‘m now shiny hunting Pokemon on Fire Red ✌️😄
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 21/04/2026
5 years of running my own company .. crazy! time flies when you’re having fun :D
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 15/04/2026
referrals via LLMs going strong today :D
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 14/04/2026
I'm currently spending a lot of time and effort on DevOps topics for Vemetric on one side because it was necessary (e.g. memory leak, bloated docker images, ..), but also because I soon want to offer a proper self-hosted version for Vemetric, which should build upon a clean base 1/2
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 13/04/2026
today I had my first ever onboarding call with a new Vemetric customer (he subscribed immediately without trying the product 😅) he's doesn't have a technical background, so he needed some help with the integration, and I've explained the basics to him 1/2
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 11/04/2026
the past days I tried to chase the leak, installed proper telemetry + logs and scanned the codebase for reasons .. I couldn't find any yesterday I upgraded Vemetric to the latest Bun Version and voilà: the leak is gone :) 1/2
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 03/04/2026
Monthly update for @vemetric.com: March 2026 🧘‍♂️ 🌐 143 Active Projects (+9) ⭐️ 344 GitHub Stars (+6) 📈 1.236.943 Events Tracked (+411.021) 💰 $175 MRR (-$7)
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 01/04/2026
the last two weeks I took a step back and made a pause, even from shipping my products it showed me one thing: I have a memory leak in Vemetric's Backend 😂 (before, I did continuous deployments almost every day, resetting the RAM and silently hiding it^^)
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 30/03/2026
today I ordered a zigbee stick, which will turn my Mac Mini into an even more powerful Smart Home hub :D first use case will be to use an Aqara Sensor together with a Shelly, to make my garage door smart 🙌 I love this rabbit hole^^
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 26/03/2026
yesterday I did it, after >350 days I purposefully let my posting streak end, because I'm currently in the last days of my parental leave, taking a break from building, and don't have much to say now Typefully is even so cute and let me repair my streak, they won't even tell anyone :) 1/2
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 24/03/2026
OpenClaw still helps me a lot with my Google Ads for Vemetric! it helps me keep track of the changes we make, suggests new edits, and helps me build the CSVs for manual conversion uploads 1/2
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 23/03/2026
let the smart home action continue 😈
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 20/03/2026
today I finished my first smart home setup (dimmable lights), openclaw helped me setting up homebridge and also integrate my ACs into apple homekit + my wife and I did the first preparations in our garden to make it ready for spring & summer feels good to improve and work on your own home :D
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 19/03/2026
time to make my home a bit more smart and I‘m starting with making my existing lights smart + dimmable :D I don’t have much experience with these things but together with ChatGPT it’s a nice project and I‘m learning a lot!
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 18/03/2026
small improvement for empty states in Vemetric: they directly let you clear filters or change the selected timeframe
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 17/03/2026
now that TrustMRR supports Paddle, I was finally able to list Vemetric there as well! 🥳 sadly I'm not able to list snappify yet, as it's still on Paddle Classic 🥲 check it out 👇 trustmrr.com/startup/vem...
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Vemetric - $140 last 30 days | TrustMRR
Vemetric is a b2b analytics, founded in 2025. $140/month in verified Paddle revenue. $194 MRR. Track Vemetric's verified metrics on TrustMRR.
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 16/03/2026
today is an intentional no-work monday I only have two weeks of paternity leave left with my little daughter and I try to recharge my batteries and enjoy the time off started the day playing and soaking up the moments with my daughter and now I‘m at the gym lifting weights 💪
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 14/03/2026
there’s still no way around MCP when you want to integrate your product into ChatGPT and Claude right? I‘m currently building the AI integration layer, this week I released the Rest API, now I‘m working on the CLI .. and this weeks discussions made me think again: do I really need a MCP server?
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 13/03/2026
my agent telling my that I'm wrong > it's telling me that I'm absolutely right
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 12/03/2026
I've used one Codex chat for over 3 weeks to create the Vemetric API I really enjoy these long-running chats about one topic, so I can get as much value from the existing context as possible Codex does a good job there with auto-compaction as well!
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 12/03/2026
while I'm working a lot less on snappify compared to the previous years, I still treat it as a product that is used by many (paying) users, and I want them to have a great experience 1/3
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 12/03/2026
you can feel the real power of open source when people genuinely help you with their contributions! recently there's been more activity again for Vemetric, also on our Discord server, where people also volunteer and help each other, which is so awesome 🫶
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