How to write an indie analytics tool creator brief

An indie analytics tool creator brief is not a media-plan age band. It is a session: a person, a problem, a pattern of watch-time. I write it before I open a fresh account.

The sentence I actually scroll as: US English indie hacker, 25-38, already bounced off GA4 and a Mixpanel they never instrumented, watches ‘GA4 is unusable’ and ‘I shipped and I have no idea who signed up’ videos after a launch night.

Problem in their mouth: I shipped at 11pm and I still cannot tell you how many people signed up.

Already tried: GA4 they cannot read, Mixpanel they never finished, and a CSV of Stripe they pasted into Notion.

Watch: GA4 hate, ‘I shipped with no analytics’, Plausible-vs-Posthog arguments, launch-night refreshers.

Reject: the growth Twitter thread-lord selling a $499 funnel course.

Adjacent: launch-night refresh, privacy-friendly pageviews, not enterprise CDP theater.

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What to put on the page you send a creator

That later page is not the avatar brief. The avatar brief is for the phone. The creator page is: one mechanic, one CTA, one forbid list.

Mechanic: a privacy-friendly pageview that is not a Google Analytics maze, or a one-event funnel a solo founder will actually open. A working project they can paste a snippet into tonight, not a sales call.

CTA: Paste the snippet, refresh, read the number. If they needed a call, you are not indie-priced.

Forbid: Do not ask them to flash fake MRR. Ask them to paste the snippet and read today’s count. No medical claims. No fake “not sponsored” energy when you paid them.

A public signup with a snippet, no demo call. If they never open the product, the video will be a read-through of your website.

What to ignore

Follower counts, “micro vs macro,” competitor creator lists, and anything that starts with #buildinpublic. Those belong in the outreach spreadsheet, after you have names from a feed.

Also ignore “make it go viral.” An avatar brief cannot promise that. It can only promise match.

Example video to have in your head while you write: someone clicking through GA4 for four minutes and still not knowing today’s signups.

GA4-hate already has the indie audience; a number they can read on a phone is the demo.

Scout is $1,500/month for the list that comes out of this brief. You approve every creator and every rate. No demo. No download guarantee.

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