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PostHog
Company blog · posthog.com/blog · on HN as timglstartupsprogramming
PostHog is the company blog at posthog.com, writing about startups and programming. Since 2020, 159 different Hacker News readers have linked it 356 times, most often “New Posthog Website”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
PostHog automatically diagnoses problems, fixes bugs, and generates pull requests – all without you having to prompt it.
Most-linked posts?
- New Posthog Website28 people · 29 mentions · first linked 2020-04-05
- PostHog14 people · 23 mentions · first linked 2020-04-08
- PostHog Company Handbook8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2021-05-05
- Posthog Compensation Calculator6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-01-15
- /blog/sunsetting-helm-support-posthog4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-05-08
- Why our website looks like an operating system4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-09-10
- /careers3 people · 18 mentions · first linked 2020-07-01
- DeskHog, an open-source developer toy3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-05-29
- PostHog Code3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-05-05
- I learned to love feedback loops (and make better products)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-02-04
What Hacker News says?
I've only heard the term in reference to https://posthog.com/founders/cracked-manifesto
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on “Founder Mode”Submitted Why our website looks like an operating system as a story · 684 points
HN discussionIt looks like self-hosting Posthog ( https://posthog.com/ ) should work, and they look great. They're a US company, so you can't use their cloud service, but it's designed to be self-hosted and they have a list of EU cloud providers so you can do 100% EU-based self-hosting if you want: https://posthog.com/docs/self-host/deploy/hosting-in-eu
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on “Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority”Submitted Job interview questions engineers should ask, but don't as a story · 524 points
HN discussionIt's almost certainly for the companies to pay less money, but with a more generous reading, I think it could be argued that that doesn't necessarily have to come out of employee salaries. That data could be used to: - Set reasonable ranges to find the right candidates they are looking for faster and minimize hiring friction - Standardize payment levels in a way that reduces legal liability in certain states like Co…
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on “Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?”Submitted Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum as a story · 396 points
HN discussionHasura by far, lets you point-and-click build your database and table relationships with a web dashboard and autogenerates a full GraphQL CRUD API with permissions you can configure and JWT/webhook auth baked-in. https://hasura.io/ I've been able to build in a weekend no-code what would've taken my team weeks or months to build by hand, even with something as productive as Rails. It automates the boring stuff and yo…
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on “Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?”Submitted DeskHog, an open-source developer toy as a story · 274 points
HN discussionhttps://posthog.com/ is one i've been playing around with lately.
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on “Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast”Submitted Automating a Software Company with GitHub Actions as a story · 247 points
HN discussionI haven't tested it much but the site seems surprisingly snappy & usable even on mobile – except for… the browser back button?! In Chromium & Firefox (both on Android) it keeps bringing me back to the top of the previous page and does not restore my scroll position. That seems like a rather large oversight? EDIT: Ok, I take back the "usable" part. This is insanity. I have found links that don't do anything. Some lin…
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on “Why our website looks like an operating system”Submitted How we raised $3M for an open source project as a story · 158 points
HN discussionGotta love the employees feet pics folder found in the trash bin: https://posthog.com/feet-pics
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on “Why our website looks like an operating system”Submitted Our experience moving to SF to do YC as a story · 155 points
HN discussionTheir https://posthog.com/404 is blue screen of death :)
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on “Why our website looks like an operating system”Submitted A story about pivots as a story · 127 points
HN discussionok the https://posthog.com/sparks-joy/dictator-or-tech-bro was pretty funny :-D
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on “Why our website looks like an operating system”Submitted Post-mortem of Shai-Hulud attack on November 24th, 2025 as a story · 99 points
HN discussionHi, OP here. I was employee #13 at PostHog, joining as a designer (who now moonlights as a design engineer). I'm responsible for the website. I've been part of crafting the brand for 4.5 years – joined when the company just started monetizing. There are only two of us who work on the website, myself and a front end engineer. (He was hired to work on the website and doesn't directly work in the product.) We've spent…
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on “Why our website looks like an operating system”Submitted Delivering actionable feedback as a story · 97 points
HN discussionPostHog | Remote (Europe/US timezones) | Early full-stack engineer | https://posthog.com PostHog is open-source product analytics. Graduated YC W20, we were the most popular B2B software HN launch since 2012 [0]. Our GitHub repo [1] has 2.8k stars and a growing and active community. We've raised a very comfortable seed round and are growing quickly. We're looking for a full-stack engineer, someone who knows what a g…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)”Submitted Scaling product analytics built on ClickHouse as a story · 64 points
HN discussionYep! https://posthog.com/teams/website-docs
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)”Submitted PostHog will train AI models with your data (opted-in by default) as a story · 62 points
HN discussionhttps://posthog.com/handbook/people/compensation
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)”Submitted Developer marketing for early-stage startups – what we’ve learned as a story · 47 points
HN discussionPosthog built something similar too, a hedgehog you can move around and that interacts with some of the elements on the page: https://posthog.com/blog/rome-hackathon#hedgehog-mode
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on “VS Code Pets”Submitted Product-led Growth as a story · 31 points
HN discussionI know of three (all OSS) * https://www.posthog.com/ (more mixpanel alternative, can auto-track events too) * https://snowplowanalytics.com/ * https://rudderstack.com/ (explicitly say it's Segment alternative)
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on “Twilio set to acquire Segment for $3.2B”Submitted PostHog – engineering handbook – shipping and releasing as a story · 30 points
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