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How developers build successful products. Hedgehog enthusiasts π https://t.co/9kGvj5Vwsu π¨ https://t.co/GOm7MWrYy9 πΈ https://t.co/qOLCf2RbxJ
Joined January 2020
We're constantly releasing new features as open betas and feature previews. Here's how to enable them. Go take a look. π
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It's giveaway time! Featuring some of our weirdest merch yet - PostHog on a floppy disk, with custom, _hand-drawn_ artwork. Neat!. To be in with a chance to one of these 10 exclusive pieces, @ us any time this week with your best IT disaster stories and we'll pick some winners.
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Join our newsletter, Product for Engineers. π¨. π Curated advice on building successful products, startup life, and more. π The best of the PostHog blog and behind-the-scenes. ποΈ Delivered (roughly) every two weeks. Subscribe:
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We've decided to make less money [Part 1] π₯. As of today, we're drastically cutting prices and making PostHog the cheapest session replay tool among competitive products. How much you'll save will depend on your usage, but if you capture 25k recordings per month, your bill will
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Things you need to know about achieving product-market fit:. πΈ Fundraising + press β product-market fit.β
You need a specific ideal customer profile.π You need to βclose the loopβ with your users. This is what we've learned (so far)!.
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Things we've learned about pricing for SaaS startups. π Treat your pricing like a product.β
Price your product for teams, not individuals.π‘ Charging as much as you can is short-sighted.
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Social proof is an important part of developer marketing. That's why we're delighted to announce that we've won LITERALLY EVERY G2 AWARD. Brb, going to make our designers cry by forcing them to plaster this all over the website.
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Technical but passionate about blogging?. We're looking for a software engineer turned writer for our open source and remote-first company. Write cool stuff about how our software works, and own our documentation. DM us with a link to your writing and your email address!
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@jxnlco Can we interest you in this? Hit us up on sales@youknowhat.com and we'll sort you out.
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Announcing our Web Analytics beta π. PostHog Cloud users can now opt-in to the public beta of Web Analytics for PostHog. Web Analytics offers a Google Analytics-like experience , making it easy to track the performance of your marketing website. It's still in the early stages,
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Want to query your analytics data using SQL? PostHog does that! π₯. Introducing HogQL, a new feature that gives you the power to build custom data tables, property breakdowns. and so much more. Public beta live now for all PostHog Cloud users.
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we have decided to make less money.
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Our pals @RevenueCat have launched an official PostHog integration. We've decided not to co-brand the integration as either CatHog or HogCat, for boring SEO reasons. Sorry. The integration enables you to do things like create behavioral cohorts of users based on revenue
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We've teamed up with @elevenlabsio, @supabase, @ClerkDev, and more to create the AI Engineer Pack and give AI developers $50+ in credit to use on their products. Experts are already calling it "A fantastic co-marketing activity that adds shareholder value and gets you some free
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Introducing PostHog 3000 & Notebooks π. As an end of year gift to our awesome users, we've released a major overhaul of the PostHog user experience. Our goal with this redesign is to make PostHog feel less like a SaaS app and more like a dev tool. β
It's got dark mode! .β
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TΜΆeΜΆrΜΆmΜΆaΜΆgΜΆoΜΆtΜΆcΜΆhΜΆiΜΆ DeskHog: friendship you can buy, numbers on your desk. we've made progress on our first hardware project and developer toy. The code and 3D printing files are now in early beta, and we've got links so you can buy the board we're using. full kits coming
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one of our most requested features is now available as a beta: react native session replay. it supports all the usual replay features, such as masking sensitive content, and is quick to setup too. react native replays will remain in beta while we gather feedback and file off
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think we've stumbled upon our defining feature. can't believe someone didn't think of this before, tbh.
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Our error tracking beta is now. no longer a beta!. Like all our products, there's a generous free tier βΒ 100k exceptions every month. After that, pricing is usage-based and very affordable. It does all the things you'd expect an error tracking tool to do, like:. -
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Our project is wildly ambitious and we got swamped with demand. Achievement unlocked:. Thank you @ycombinator for leading.
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Feature Preview: Notebooks for PostHog π. For the past few months, we've been working on a radically improved UI for PostHog. Core to this UI is a new feature: notebooks. In notebooks, you can:. β
Build insights in just a few clicks.β
Write notes using markdown.β
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You can stop complaining about GA4 and start using PostHog now because our web analytics product is out of beta. π . Web analytics makes it easy to analyze things like:. - Unique users.- Pageviews.- Session duration.- Bounce rate.- Most popular pages.- Outbound clicks.-
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We've decided to make less money [Part 2] π₯π°. Last week, we slashed the cost of session replay by more than 50%, making PostHog the cheapest session replay tool in its class. This week, we're making tracking events for anonymous users up to 80% cheaper. What's changing?
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We've received feedback our website is too transparent and too easy to use. Today we're addressing your feedback by introducing "Enterprise Mode" - toggle it on via the account menu on or just click the hyperlink below:.
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We're big fans of ClickHouse at PostHog. Over the years, we've built a lot of expertise and systems related to it. To formalize and share these, we're launching HouseWatch, an open-source suite of tools for monitoring and managing ClickHouse.
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We've teamed up with @mintlify to add a new perk to our PostHog for Startups program because, let's be honest, your docs could always be a bit better. Teams in our startup program now get 50% off their first six months with Mintlify, in addition to all the usual perks!
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No-code web experiments are here! π§ͺ. Currently an opt-in beta, no-code experiments enable you to run A/B tests, multivariate tests, and other experiments that modify your website without writing a single line of code. Instead, it's all done through the PostHog toolbar with a
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the product analytics team is cooking. current status: sizzling π‘οΈ
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One of our most requested integrations is now live! π. Thanks to @Marcon565, the new Google Ads Conversions destination enables you to send conversion events from PostHog to Google Ads. This means you can keep a closer eye on your conversion data and see what ads are really
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We've just released the first beta for real-time destinations. π. Real-time destinations are exactly what they sound like β a way to send data in real-time to a wide range of destinations, including Slack, Hubspot, Intercom, Zapier, and loads more. We have templates set up for
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Since PostHogβs first line of code on January 22nd, 2020, weβve shipped:. - Product analytics.- Session replay.- Feature flags.- A/B testing.- User surveys.- Heatmaps.- SDKs for all the above.- A basic CDP to stream data to warehouses.- Data warehouse MVP.- A wildly extensive
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Non-obvious behaviors that will kill your startup. 1. Not praising people for day-to-day work .2. Giving mostly positive feedback .3. Taking shortcuts when hiring.4. Not trusting teammates.5. Sticking rigidly to plans .6. Waiting βone more weekβ.7. Not following-up with
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Marketing Team: "How should we announce that PostHog is now HIPAA compliant?". @LottieCoxon: "Hippo compliance? I'm on it."
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Everything we shipped last week. π (spoiler: it's a long list). MAX AI π€. - You can now cancel generations in Max, which is handy if you want to shut him up when he goes wrong. Thanks to Georgiy for this PR. - Max can now read the docs, meaning he can now answer questions
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The PostHog toolbar now supports dead click tracking. A dead click is a click that doesn't do anything in your app, or prompt any action for the user. Tracking dead clicks lets you find:.- Where users click on the background.- When users mistakenly click on an element
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At many companies, product management looks something like this:. 1. Get a list of features the founders or sales team wants. 2. Tell the engineering team the bare minimum they need to know. 3. Get them to build as many of these features as possible. This sucks for everyone.
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Here's what it looks like when our AI assistant, Max, answers a question on our community forum. Max is powered by @inkeep_ai and we've worked hard to make it a reliable and useful addition to community support. Here's a bit more about how it works.
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What did we do last week?. We shipped. All the time. Here's what's new:. - Product analytics insights now show the date range when grouping by week, instead of the first day of the week. Thanks to PostHog newcomer Hamed for this one. - You can now add retention graphs to
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TFW you pretend to be an engineer at PostHog so you can run some crypto scams
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Error tracking is now available as an open beta in our feature preview menu β see our pinned post for how to access. Because we're an all-in-one platform, you can use any reported errors to create insights, filter recordings, trigger surveys, and anything else you can imagine.
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Session replay. For mobile apps. It's here. In open beta. On Android and iOS. Right now. Like, this very moment. Read the docs.
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π₯ Is it just us, or is it getting hot in here? π₯. Heatmaps and scrollmaps are now available in PostHog. Track mouse movements, scroll depth, and click counts to work out where users are struggling, and what they actually see. Try it right now, free, via the toolbar.
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All we can say is π€©.
I got tired of building dashboards in @posthog. So I built a tool that does it for me. Here's how it works π Link below if you wanna try it!. cc: @_buildspace #buildinpublic
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What's the difference between a *software* engineer and a *growth* engineer?. It's all in the mindset. π‘ Hypothesis over requirements. Software engineers work on features users clearly need. Growth engineers work on more unknowns and care more about exploration and discovery.
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This is called marketing btw.
Hey everyone please sign up for PostHog, thanks!.
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At PostHog, we do all our work in the open on GitHub. Why not follow along and leave us a π to show your support for open source?.
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Want to join a startup?. These are the questions you *should* be asking.
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Which one of these things ISN'T included when you join our startups program?. - $50k in PostHog credit.- Exclusive founder merch.- Better docs with @mintlify (50% off for 6m).- Better SDKs with @speakeasydev (50% off for 6m).- Product analyics.- Web analytics.- Session replay.-.
What's better than getting great analytics for cheap? How about getting great anayltics + great docs + great SDKs for cheap π . Very excited to join our friends at @posthog and @mintlify in offering discounts to those who join Posthog's startup program!
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Our secrets to planning a really good team offsite:.1. Have a checklist - here's ours: 2. Do not let Charles buy the pool inflatables
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PostHog's marketing team is excited to announce:. 1. They built and shipped in-app dashboard templates.2. They didn't break anything in the process. It's the last point which is arguably most impressive.
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Additional. Weβre not just cheaper than replay tools designed for developers, either. Anyone using Hotjar for their website or web app can also save by switching to PostHog. And, unlike Hotjar, we support session replays on mobile with our open beta for iOS and Android SDKs
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Defining your ICP is one of the most important things you'll do as a startup.
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What has got a brand new UI and just launched on ProductHunt? PostHog v1.30! ππ. Show your support and find out what's new at:
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We unfortunately don't use all of the amazing art @LottieCoxon does for us. But this was too cute not to share.
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a quick thread on some cool hackathon projects from our recent offsite in sunny mykonos. π¬π·
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π Product Update. PostHog is now available as a @raycastapp extension. It lets you open the app, search for projects, persons, feature flags, and cohorts, all via the launcher. You can also jump straight to specific parts of PostHog, such as session replays or feature flags.
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"The releases are wild"."I cannot live without PostHog". Time to lean in!.
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Some engineers watch Netflix, but 10x engineers watch session replays β aka Hogflix! . To make bingeing replays easier, Raquel has added a new 'What to watch' tab to session replay. Want to watch recordings of your pricing page, just input the URL and we'll pull up every user
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Some great tips for first-time founders from the CEO and co-founder of @supabase, @kiwicopple. Full post:
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PostHog benefitted massively from being part of @ycombinator - so weβre delighted to return the favour! . Find out why YC chose PostHog for it's product analytics and how experiments helped boost engagement by 40% π.
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Running a startup also means dealing with boring admin. We've written a guide so you can skip straight to the "building an awesome product" bit. You can read it on our blog, but this is Twitter so you know what's coming. π§΅
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We recently completed one of the biggest projects we've ever attempted. It led to speed increases of up to 400%. That's a 400% reduction in time spent staring at exercising hedgehogs! (Sorry @LottieCoxon). Here's why we spent 6 months combining two ClickHouse tables into one. π§΅
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Fine. FINE. You want a robot helper for React, you get a robot helper for React. LLM agent-driven integration for PostHog finishes in 90 seconds β now it works with your React project, too. Grab the prompt and vibe on.
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If you learn only one thing about achieving product-market, make it this. π« Fundraising + press β product-market fit!. In our latest newsletter, we share 13 lessons we've learned about product-market fit.
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In an ongoing effort to keep things performant, @pauldambra has dropped support for ES5 from the main bundle of our JavaScript SDK. This reduces the assets you have to load by 10%, which we think is a worthy tradeoff for dropping support for older browsers, such as Internet
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Batch exports are now in public beta. Built on @temporalio, you can schedule exports of event and persons data to BigQuery, S3, Snowflake, Postgres, and Redshift. Batch exports are:. 1. More resilient due retry capabilities (automated & manual) when destinations are unavailable.
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Our first 5 hires are still with us four years after we started. π. Read all about them in the latest issue of Product for Engineers β link in bio.
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It's a much requested feature and it's finally available thanks to Richard Borcsik: the ability to trigger recordings based on a user visiting a matching URL. This is obviously useful if there are high-value pages you want to track users on, such as a payment or subscription
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PostHog is now SOC 2 compliant. Itβs like Boyz 2 Men, but with Socks and Hogs. Or something.
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