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james_impliu

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About james_impliu

co-founder of https://posthog.com - all in one platform to analyze, test, observe and deploy new features. 20k+ github stars.

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    PostHog | Full-Time | Technical CSMs, Technical AEs, AI Research Engineer | REMOTE (all remote) | Hiring GMT-8 to GMT+2 | PostHog makes your product self-driving. * we have a publi…

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    PostHog | Full-Time | Product engineers, Technical CSMs, Technical AEs | REMOTE (all remote) | Hiring GMT-8 to GMT+2 PostHog makes dev tools that help product engineers build succe…

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    PostHog | Full-Time | Product engineers, Technical CSMs, Forward deployed engineers | REMOTE (all remote) | Hiring GMT-8 to GMT+2 PostHog makes dev tools that help product engineer…

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    PostHog (YC W20) Is Hiring

    PostHog equips developers to build successful products by combining product analytics, feature flags, session replay, a data warehouse, CDP and many more. * we have a public handbo…

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    PostHog | Full-Time | Product engineers, backend engineers, Technical AMs | REMOTE (all remote) | Hiring GMT-8 to GMT+2 PostHog equips developers to build successful products by co…

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    i can remember a discussion with Cory (who built this with Eli, the front end eng) on the topic of "why do all websites consist of a collection of long scroll-y pages / is that app…

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    PostHog | Full-Time | product engineer, technical founder engineers, backend leaning full stack engineer | REMOTE (all remote) | Hiring GMT-8 to GMT+1 PostHog helps engineers build…

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    Comment #41903657

    hey (founder here), that shouldn't be happening, although this can take us some time (we get thousands of applications, although HN is a very high quality source) - could you email…

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    Ah definitely email me then! If you are full stack but lean heavily front end and love taking pride in your craft / like working reactively based on what you think needs prioritisi…

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    PostHog | Full time | Remote (West coast US to central europe timezones) | https://posthog.com/careers We're an all remote company of just 50 with 8 products and significantly >$10…

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    (Founder) wanted to explain our intent behind the business… so here’s the origin story. We tried to make the business work exclusively with self hosted and open source focus. I tho…

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    you wouldn't have posted this if you didn't already know it's not going to work out!

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    yep - on the grounds we have lots of competition so we need to stand out! And hey, front page HN for doing weird stuff… :)

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    (Founder) we wanted to be able to capture questions on each page of our docs - so someone learning about our JS SDK (for example) could see questions about it under the main docs c…

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    Ah it's my company's operating handbook not our product docs or marketing pages. Didn't expect to see this here so fast after we rewrote it recently! Regardless, I've made a PR to …

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    we mainly do this because it can just help with getting PRs approved if we want to fix an issue in something we rely on (and it is nice / we can list as a perk), and a little influ…

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    Yikes, I'm the founder of this company (one of my colleagues wrote this piece) - just saw it appear here. We shipped a rather huge change to the website recently (we're trying to l…

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    ok that is fair - going to SF frequently but not living there is something i should have been clearer on! my cofounder and i go 3-4 x a year now, for 1 week at a time. it acts like…

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    1. Just be yourself, proudly. Some people _will_ hate it, others will love it. Getting product market fit is so damned hard, you are way better off looking for a smaller number of …

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    PostHog | Full-Time | Distributed systems engineer (and lead), full stack and ex technical founder engineers | Remote (all remote) | Hiring GMT-8 to GMT+1 PostHog helps engineers b…

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    I feel like a weird industry has popped up that makes you feel like you can validate everything in advance. I think this comes from Product Managers in large, risk-averse companies…

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    Ask HN: Has anyone ever hired lots of developers and shipped faster as a result?

    I've read plenty of horror stories about adding too many engineers too fast in high growth companies and the only real result being interview/onboarding chaos. It feels like there'…