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Re: PostHog FOSS

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post #15

It's hard for me to express how much I dislike their marketing website. Sometimes when you have a "cool idea" you should sit with it a moment and then pull back.

I'm a fan of the posthog product but agree with the site. I appreciate the retro styling and all but opening all the windows for everything is disorienting and kinda breaks web navigation that we have all gotten used to for the past 30 years.

Re: PostHog FOSS

#22

I have a weird memory of PostHog. I remember applying sometime ago, not really knowing what they did. They then spammed me with marketing mail, now they're open-sourced and had received a (supposedly marketing) job posting? Granted in this entire history I had no idea what their product was. Seems flakey, but I haven't used it.

Why would you apply to a job for a company you don't even know what they do?

Re: PostHog FOSS

#23

Looks like they created mess with AI and then open sourced it. I remembered I had to shift from them to metabase because they closed sourced their deployments docker/kubernetes I guess it was 3 years back. But now AI screwed them over so they come with their own open-source spaghetti.

PostHog has always been open source. I'm not sure why this has been shared on HN at all.

Re: PostHog FOSS

#25

I have a weird memory of PostHog. I remember applying sometime ago, not really knowing what they did. They then spammed me with marketing mail, now they're open-sourced and had received a (supposedly marketing) job posting? Granted in this entire history I had no idea what their product was. Seems flakey, but I haven't used it.

Why would you apply to a job for a company you don't even know what they do?

money?

Re: PostHog FOSS

#26

Last time I checked, Posthog self hosted was basically unusable. They have a hobby deployment script which just pulls the latest build from master which varies from “somewhat works” to “completely broken”

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Re: PostHog FOSS

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post #21
post #15

It's hard for me to express how much I dislike their marketing website. Sometimes when you have a "cool idea" you should sit with it a moment and then pull back.

I'm a fan of the posthog product but agree with the site. I appreciate the retro styling and all but opening all the windows for everything is disorienting and kinda breaks web navigation that we have all gotten used to for the past 30 years.

wait i don’t see this happening!

Re: PostHog FOSS

#29

I used to like their product but now they too many modules and knobs that I find it difficult to understand and navigate. I think is a bit of product slopification.

founder here, what specifically do you use posthog for that you now find hard to find?

Re: PostHog FOSS

#30

I used to like their product but now they too many modules and knobs that I find it difficult to understand and navigate. I think is a bit of product slopification.

They've been using AI to shove a lot of AI into their product and trying to force everyone to use AI. I really don't understand the why of any of it. The product was working great for what it needs to do. I don't need AI to make guesses about data for me and I especially do not want _yet another product_ trying to write features in my codebase (which is their latest push).
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