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Someone attacked our company

(Jack Ellis) At the start of November, someone decided that they would try to attack and destroy our company. Here’s how we stopped them.

Dec 14, 2020
news

Privacy Stories: Fastmail

(Paul Jarvis) Fastmail has proven (over the long term), that charging a fair price for software can keep your business running and growing indefinitely.

Dec 8, 2020
news

Designing a million dollar brand

(Paul Jarvis) Branding is also not just a logo. Branding is how people connect and feel about a company. Here’s how Fathom Analytics does it.

Dec 7, 2020
news

Privacy stories: DuckDuckGo

(Paul Jarvis) DuckDuckGo has been leading the privacy-focused space since 2008 with their search engine.

Nov 18, 2020
news

Everyone has something to hide

(Paul Jarvis) In this article, Fathom Analytics cofounder explains why everyone should care about their privacy, not just privacy nerds like me.

Nov 2, 2020
news

Announcing Phantom Analyzer

(Paul Jarvis) Phantom Analyzer is a real-time website scanner to see what invisible creepers are lurking and collecting information about you online.

Oct 28, 2020
news

Does targeted digital advertising work?

(Paul Jarvis) Does targeted digital advertising, including personalized ads that we're shown via Google or Facebook, actually work?

Oct 12, 2020
news

How to build a privacy-first software business

(Jack Ellis) Data breaches occur every single day and people are getting tired of companies that don’t take their privacy seriously.

Oct 5, 2020
news

Hosted vs self-hosted website analytics

(Jack Ellis) When deciding which analytics software to use for your website, one of the questions to be considered is whether you want to use a managed service or use self hosted analytics.

Oct 2, 2020
technical

What happened when a customer got over 10m pageviews in a few hours?

(Jack Ellis) What happened to our infrastructure when a customer got over 10 million page views in a few hours?

Aug 19, 2020
technical
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