Page Views API launches visitor counter

This is a nice example of a small but genuinely useful devtool: it competes on simplicity, not on trying to become a full analytics platform.

• –The no-dashboard, single-script pitch lowers adoption friction for indie apps and side projects that just need basic visitor counts.
• –Smart deduplication is the real product value here; without it, page-view counters are usually too noisy to trust.
• –Open-source plus a GitHub-hosted repo makes it easy for teams to audit, self-host, or adapt the API to their stack.
• –The tradeoff is obvious: this solves counting, not analytics depth, so it will appeal more to builders who want lightweight telemetry than to teams replacing mature analytics suites.