Show HN: OpenSnowcat – A fork of Snowplow to keep open analytics alive

I’ve been a long-time Snowplow user and unofficial evangelizer. I have deep respect for its founders, Alex and Yali, who I met a few times. What made me fall in love with Snowplow was that it was unopinionated, gave access to raw event data, and was truly open source. Back in 2013, that changed everything for me. I couldn’t look at GA the same way again. Over the years, analytics moved into SQL warehouses driven by cheaper CPU/storage, dbt, reproducibility, and transparency. I saw the need for a democratized Snowplow pipeline and launched a hosted version in 2019. In January 2024, Snowplow changed its license (SLULA), effectively ending open-source Snowplow by restricting production use. When that happened, I realized the spirit of open data and open architecture was gone. A week later, I forked it, I wanted to keep the idea alive. OpenSnowcat keeps the original collector and enricher under Apache 2.0 and stays fully compatible with existing Snowplow pipelines. We maintain it with