InsightsTrack + Pulse: I taught Claude Desktop to read my web analytics (via MCP)
5.5 relevance
Score Breakdown
technical depth 6
novelty 7
actionability 5
community 3
strategic 2
personal 8
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Teaches Claude Desktop to read web analytics via MCP, relevant to AI and analytics.
Summary
InsightsTrack is an open-source, self-hosted web analytics alternative to Google Analytics, featuring Pulse—an AI analyst that answers natural language queries with live charts and tables, never hallucinated. It exposes 17 read-only tools via MCP (Model Context Protocol), enabling Claude Desktop and other MCP clients to query traffic data directly. A dual-database architecture (PostgreSQL for writes, DuckDB for reads) delivers sub-100ms query performance over millions of events.