Show HN: I threw away my analytics dashboard and replaced it with 42 MCP tools
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People who are experienced with web analytics tools seem to derive a lot of value from them, but setting them up properly seems like a lot of work. I guess this kind of thing may give you fairly sophisticated insights without the hassle?
For an expert, this will likely be a wash (at best), but I think getting AI assistance on the analysis of the data is really useful for people without a lot of experience with web analytics. The really interesting stuff comes when you combine it with other context though, adding Google Search Console, Git commits, Apollo for leads, etc.
To simplify something for humans used to be a good business idea. In the process, you often sacrified power for the sake of simplicity. Now what we want is maximally powerful, headless systems that agents can simplify on the fly.
added "to do" on this in linear for our relentlessly.no :D
The world moves fast these days, and suddenly I found myself experimenting with agents, and doing all my work in Claude Code, so I decided to throw out everything and rebuild the tool as lodd.dev, a headless web analytics tool for agents. 42 MCP tools and a full API that lets agents call and act on analytics data as part of their processes.
I've tried to optimise it for agent usage, so efficient responses (a snapshot is 60ish tokens), an llms.txt to guide the agent to handle setup, read only for simplified auth, and both a hosted oAuth (for desktop and mobile apps) and stdio version using an API key for terminal use. Human in the loop authentication using OTP in an email.
Explicitly asking the agent to use it works really well, and I particularly like combining with other context sources like GSC or commit history, but it's been a little bit of a challenge having the agent call it unprompted. A few lines at the top of a Claude.md file has made a difference though.
I'd love to hear what value, if any, you see from being able to get analytics data in the same conversation as your code (or other automatic workflows)?