{
  "id": "10-telemetry-lite",
  "title": "Telemetry Lite",
  "problem": "PostHog has won the product-analytics-with-session-replay category but its self-hosted footprint is too heavy for small teams (Postgres, Kafka, ClickHouse, Redis, multiple workers). Privacy-conscious teams who want to self-host are stuck either running PostHog at $200/month of infra OR using nothing and getting blind product decisions.",
  "targetUser": "Engineering teams at 5–30 person companies (or solo founders) who want product analytics + session replay but refuse to send user data to a third-party SaaS, and don't have an infra engineer to run PostHog.",
  "desiredOutcome": "A single Docker container, single SQLite file, that delivers 80% of PostHog's value — events, funnels, session replay — at 5% of the operational complexity.",
  "initialHypothesis": "There's a self-host segment that won't pay for SaaS analytics OR run a PostHog cluster. They'll accept a smaller feature set in exchange for trivial ops.",
  "constraints": [
    "Single binary or single Docker container, SQLite-only storage option",
    "Apache 2.0 license, hosted version is a separate commercial play",
    "GDPR-compliant data export and deletion built in"
  ],
  "meta": {
    "isHoldout": true,
    "expectedDifficulty": "hard",
    "testsFor": ["technical", "oss", "competitive-positioning"]
  }
}