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Dominik Sumer

@dominiksumer.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
My shipping muscles got a bit rusty lately, will write about that in another post in detail, but I hope that this release is a change in the right direction. I want to ship more again! :D
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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 · 01/09/2026
true, but I still think that using Remotion as underlying video creation library helps a lot because it comes with soo many things out of the box like proper video encoding and a nice animation system
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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
it also makes me drink less coffee, because it’s not just a single button press anymore, and I really enjoy the process and the end result much more also keeps the way open for machine upgrades or other bean and coffee experiments in the future, but for now I‘m very happy :D
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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
I'm gaining more experience in identifying the patterns of the "malicious" events and while it's really annoying that this happens, it's also an indication that my customers product is successful, so I'm also a bit happy for them 👌
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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
That's it for this month, we're moving forward! Here you can see the update from last month: bsky.app/profile/dom...
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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 · 04/06/2026
On the marketing side I spent some time in creating a new Hero section for Vemetric's landing page! It's the first step in making Vemetric's positioning clearer and making the LP a clean and smooth experience for people to learn about what it is about and what they can expect
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 04/06/2026
Another big win in May was that Vemetric received its first customer on the 500k events plan (an existing user upgraded) 🥳 The platform is starting to serve bigger projects as analytics provider!
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 04/06/2026
Vemetric now has an official Status Page - not self-hosted but checked and verified by a 3rd party service - which I think increases credibility and transparent communication in case of incidents. I'm happily using phare.io here and the Status Page is live at status.vemetric.com
status.vemetric.com
Vemetric Status | System Availability
Current uptime, incident updates, and service availability for Vemetric.
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 04/06/2026
My main focus in May was on the new Globe view. As the perfectionist as I am it costs me a lot of time and I'm still not finished. But I have to admit that I'm still super busy with my freelancing project on the side and I'm happy with what I've already achieved with the Globe.
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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
do you still mainly use TanStack Query together with tRPC?
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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
hehe agreed :) .. in general I have a lot of ideas to rework the landing page in the future
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 21/05/2026
thank uu
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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 · 16/05/2026
dayum, looking good! 👌
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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
thanks a lot to @alexsuzuki.com for pinging me about the opportunity 🙏
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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
oh yeah the GitHub globe looks great as well :D
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 06/05/2026
jep afaik its a textures rendered on a sphere with a shader on top :) but I'm just using the great cobe.vercel.app library by @shud.in here he explains the technical details: x.com/shuding/stat...
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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
I feel like I'm slowly coming back and getting motivated again to bring Vemetric to new heights, let's see what May holds up! Here you can see the update from last month: bsky.app/profile/dom...
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Dominik Sumer (@dominiksumer.com)
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 · 04/05/2026
I got a huge update for Vemetric done - I've upgraded to the latest Clickhouse Version (the main analytics DB for Vemetric), with zero downtime. I'm getting more confident with DevOps and providing my customers a stable experience, and that makes me very happy :D
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 04/05/2026
April was the first month after coming back from my paternity leave, and I still took things slowly and also pursued new hobbies + soaked up moments with the family.
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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 · 23/04/2026
very nice! I also gave it a quick shot yesterday do you always drop in your codebase for it to stick with your design system?
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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 22/04/2026
it works with Canva? also with Figma? do you use it for UI designs? maybe wanna share some examples? sorry for the question bombs :D
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