How do I monitor multiple apps from one place?

Use PostHog with a single Personal API key that has access to all your projects. PostHog supports multiple projects under one account. Then use a mobile client like PocketHog to view all projects in a single feed on your iPhone, with home screen widgets for your most important apps.

What's the best analytics setup for multiple side projects?

Create one PostHog account and add each project separately. Use a shared Personal API key with read access to all projects. Add one conversion event per project so you know which apps are delivering value. Monitor everything from a single dashboard or mobile app rather than checking each project individually.

How do I track multiple live apps one place?

PostHog lets you create separate projects for each app under one account. Install the PostHog SDK in each app with its own project API key. To view all projects at once, use PocketHog on your iPhone — it displays every project in a scrollable feed with visitor counts, conversion metrics, and trend charts.

Is there a morning dashboard for indie hackers?

PocketHog is designed as a morning dashboard for people running multiple projects. It connects to PostHog and shows all your projects on one screen with live metrics. Add home screen widgets to see your numbers without opening any app. It costs $4.99 one-time with no subscription.

April 13, 2026

How to Monitor 5 Live Projects Without Losing Your Mind

You shipped a SaaS app, a mobile app, a Chrome extension, and two side projects. They all have users. They all have PostHog. And every morning you open five browser tabs, switch between five PostHog projects, squint at five sets of numbers, and try to figure out if anything needs your attention.

This doesn't scale. Here's how to set up monitoring that does.

The Multi-Project Problem

Every analytics tool is built around the single-project model. PostHog, Mixpanel, Amplitude — you log in, you see one project. To check another, you switch. To check five, you switch four times.

This was fine when most developers had one thing in production. It's not fine in 2026, when vibe coding tools let you ship a working app in a weekend. The bottleneck isn't building anymore — it's keeping track of what you've built.

The result: you either check everything obsessively (wasting time) or stop checking entirely (missing problems). Neither is sustainable.

Step 1: Standardize on One Analytics Platform

If your projects are scattered across PostHog, Firebase Analytics, Mixpanel, and Plausible, you've already lost. Pick one platform and move everything there.

PostHog is the best choice for multi-project monitoring because:

One account, unlimited projects. Every app gets its own project with its own data, but they're all under one login.
Free tier covers most side projects. 1 million events per month, no credit card. Most side projects won't come close to this.
SDKs for everything. iOS, Android, React Native, web, Node.js, Python, Go. Whatever you built your app with, there's an SDK.
Personal API keys span all projects. One key gives read access to every project, which is what makes multi-project monitoring tools possible.

For a comparison of PostHog against other free analytics tools, see best analytics for indie apps in 2026.

Step 2: Set Up Each Project the Same Way

Consistency matters when you're monitoring multiple things at a glance. For each project:

Install the PostHog SDK and initialize with the project-specific API key.
Let autocapture handle the basics. Page views, screen views, and click events come for free.
Add one conversion event. The single action that means a user got value from this specific app. Name it clearly: purchase_completed, export_created, task_finished.
Filter out test accounts. Use PostHog's property filters to exclude your own usage. Otherwise your test traffic pollutes your real numbers.

This takes about 10 minutes per project. For a detailed walkthrough, see what to track after you ship.

Step 3: Stop Checking Dashboards Manually

The PostHog web dashboard is great for deep analysis. It's terrible for a daily pulse check across five projects. You don't need funnels and session replays at 8 AM — you need to know: are my apps still alive? Is anything spiking or crashing?

The answer is a mobile dashboard that shows all your projects on one screen. PocketHog connects to your PostHog account via Personal API key and displays every project in a scrollable card feed. Each card shows:

Visitor count for the selected period
Sparkline trend chart
Period-over-period delta (e.g., +14% vs last week)
Your conversion event count, if you've set one

You can reorder projects, set custom display names (rename "Production - my-app-v2" to "Recipe App"), and add home screen widgets for the projects you care about most.

Step 4: Use Widgets for Passive Monitoring

The home screen widget is the key to making this sustainable. Instead of opening an app to check your numbers, you see them every time you unlock your phone.

Put your top three projects on your home screen as PocketHog widgets. They refresh in the background. Wake up, glance at your phone, know instantly if something needs attention. That's the entire morning check — done in two seconds.

When something looks off (traffic dropped 40%, conversions flatlined), then you open PostHog's full web dashboard for the deep dive. But that should be the exception, not the daily routine.

Step 5: Know When to Go Deeper

A glance dashboard tells you something is happening. It doesn't tell you why. You still need PostHog's web UI for:

Building funnels to find drop-off points
Watching session replays when users report bugs
Setting up A/B tests for feature changes
Writing HogQL queries for custom analysis

PocketHog includes a deep link to PostHog Max AI directly from each project card. When you spot something in the mobile feed that needs investigation, you're one tap from a full analysis environment.

What This Looks Like in Practice

Monday morning. You pick up your phone. Three widgets on your home screen show:

Recipe App: 342 visitors this week, up 8%. Normal.
Chrome Extension: 89 visitors, down 22%. Worth checking.
SaaS Tool: 156 visitors, 12 signups. Steady.

You open PocketHog for the full feed. Your two smaller side projects are fine — low traffic, no surprises. The Chrome Extension drop catches your eye, so you tap through to PostHog to check if there's a specific page or event that changed.

Total time: under a minute. You know the state of all five projects, and you only need to investigate one.

The Cost

PostHog is free for up to 1 million events per month. PocketHog is a one-time $4.99 purchase — no subscription, no per-project pricing. Five projects or fifty, same price.

For a comparison of every PostHog mobile app, see best mobile apps for PostHog in 2026.

PocketHog is an independent third-party client and is not affiliated with PostHog, Inc.