Best content analytics for indie hackers

There are roughly 40-60 analytics platforms claiming to serve content creators, but most are either enterprise SaaS tools (Mixpanel, Amplitude) that cost $500+/month and assume you're a 50-person team, or free Google Analytics knockoffs that tell you page views but nothing about *why* people leave. The real gap: indie hackers need sub-$30/month tools that connect content performance directly to revenue, engagement patterns, and audience behavior without requiring SQL queries or data engineering skills. The pain point is fragmentation—your stats live in Substack, Twitter Analytics, YouTube Studio, and Beehiiv separately, and no single pane of glass exists that lets a solo creator see content ROI across platforms. Most existing tools either charge too much for too little value, require too much manual setup, or treat all creators the same (missing the indie-specific need: measuring content-to-revenue causality on a micro scale). The real opportunity isn't better dashboards—it's intent-focused analytics that answer specific questions indie hackers actually ask: 'Which content types convert subscribers to paying customers?' and 'What's my cost-per-engaged-reader by piece?' A new entrant should focus on: (1) multi-platform aggregation without tedious integrations, (2) revenue attribution that works at indie scale (even $10 conversions matter), (3) actionable insights over raw data, and (4) a pricing model that makes sense below $100 ARR.