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Re: PostHog FOSS

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post #58

What the actual fuck is going on with web development nowadays? Look at the sheer number of ancillary files in this repo: .agents .claude .config .cursor .dagster_home .depot .flox .github .husky .idea .interface-design .pi .posthog-code .run .semgrep .stamphog .vscode .zed agent-os bin cli common devenv docker docs frontend funnel-udf livestream nodejs packages/quill patches playwright posthog products proto rust se…

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Re: PostHog FOSS

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post #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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So the solution to ”this open source project is really bad at self-hosting” is ”let’s use a 100% proprietary system that does not allow any self-hosting at all”?

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.

I don't think it is meant to be objectively the most efficient interface. It is more about being remarkable in a Seth Godin sense. For me I just want things to be blazing fast inside the dashboard.

Re: PostHog FOSS

#64

Hey, Rafa from PostHog here :) We've always been open source, so I'm not sure I understand what this is about! This is linking to our `posthog-foss` repository which has been a thing for years now, it's simply the main repository without the `ee/` folder - which is not a folder we have a lot inside anyways, we've never tried hiding anything behind it intentionally. edit: the title originally read "Posthog has been op…

Oh thanks for the clarification

Re: PostHog FOSS

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post #55

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”

I think posthog is one of these businesses where the COSS model does not work well. COSS works well when there is a large distribution advantage of being OSS. This could be bacuse a large portion of users (need to) self-host the solution. This is true for databases, people will always need to self-host dbs (e.g. as part of their docker compose in dev, etc...). These people are also hard core engineers that will 1) ta…

The other thing it does is provided confidence against vendor lock-in.

I know that if I buy PostHog, and they go out of business or increase their prices, etc. I have an out.

Re: PostHog FOSS

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post #58

What the actual fuck is going on with web development nowadays? Look at the sheer number of ancillary files in this repo: .agents .claude .config .cursor .dagster_home .depot .flox .github .husky .idea .interface-design .pi .posthog-code .run .semgrep .stamphog .vscode .zed agent-os bin cli common devenv docker docs frontend funnel-udf livestream nodejs packages/quill patches playwright posthog products proto rust se…

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Re: PostHog FOSS

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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?

I apply to the salary. If I get a callback then I'll see what the company does.

Re: PostHog FOSS

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post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I thought the same thing. What changed, if anything?

Nothing has changed, just OP found the mirror of the main repo with the ee/ folder removed. That repo has been up for most of the lifetime of the company.
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