... everyone, After a week of getting decent views but almost no downloads, I finally saw a new user pop up in my PostHog dashboard. I was ecstatic. Then I watched the session log in real-time. 17:29: AppStarted 17:29: AppStarted 17:30: AppStarted The guy tried to launch the app three times in 11 seconds. He was rage-clicking because nothing was happening. Then the error log came in: IOException: Failed to bind to address ...: address already ... ... help them , and can t fix it for the next user either. So yes, telemetry for the win. Though admittedly its a double-edged sword. I still remember when I used the likes of Amplitude, Firebase or Posthog

... What s essential in 2025 The consensus was pretty clear: besides AI everything , the modern GTM tech stack for mobile apps boils down to five key components: Your app Backend for data storage (DB or DWH) Product analytics (Firebase, PostHog, Amplitude, Mixpanel) Mobile Measurement Platform (MMP) e.g. AppsFlyer or Adjust Emailing tool/ Customer Engagement Platform (CEP) Mailchimp, Launchlist, Airship, Braze, MoEngage, etc., depending on where you're at in relation to launch. This stack gives you full-funnel visibility, cross ... ... take you pretty far. Most, but not all free but you can make a free version of the below if you need to be scrappy: AppsFlyer (MMP) for attribution Brevo/ Mailchimp/ ConstantContact/ or Airship / Braze / MoEngage for communication/journey automation PostHog

... love hubspot but I don't know that it's the best platform for mobile apps as it doesn't do well with product usage data and is strongest at B2B (and many of its modules are B2B-specific). PostHog for Product Analytics. This is a great tool with a free platform approach that got us very far. No secrets here. Some functionalities are stronger than others. Hootsuite for socials and social listening. Also purchased before me   I think ... ... okay. A Customer Data Platform (e.g. Segment) to organize/enrich customer data and orchestrate to those users. Anyone understands the value of a unified customer view/ unbroken data pipeline, but we are managing sort of okay manually configuring HubSpot and PostHog

... earning more than his teacher, and has worked ever since. Me (left) and Tim (right) at our Mykonos company offsite in 2024 Despite these differences, we realized it was important to be equal partners in PostHog from the outset. We took 50:50 equity in the company and, once we could afford to do so, took the same salary, too. Not doing so felt wrong on a human level because we were motivated by the idea of going ... ... remote company , but we still spend plenty of time together. When travelling together, for example, Tim and I always book an Airbnb instead of booking separate hotel rooms. This grounds us back in the  early days of PostHog

... clients and computers in real-time. By default it connects to our cloud that has a free-tier but we'll also open source the server so that people can self-host it. Kinda following in the footsteps of PostHog. SharedState by AirState uses CRDTs (YJS) under the hood so it is conflict-free by default and our server scales horizontally and never misses a message (i.e. the two browsers will never be out of sync if they're online ... ... this point for any CRM-y type app? is there performance overhead or can i really just slap a big blob of json and use redux on top of it or something to run something like a google sheets alternative

... posthog, the toolkit for building successful products - a single platform for building products, talking to users and shipping new features. we are 5 years old, have 140k customers and are making multiple $10s of millions of revenue. no question's too weird. we're super transparent so will probs overshare anyway. plg? fundraising? yc? working with your cofounder? why we publicly document all our bad decisions? our allergy to enterprise sales? we've an open book so ask us anything ... ... hour to answer live! Comment from Lee Gaines(@lee_gaines): @james_hawkins3  i appreciate you taking my question, james. thank you! Comment from Aaron O'Leary(@aaronoleary): Hey James & Tim! Thanks for doing this AMA, loved watching PostHog

... While visiting SF recently, I saw @PostHog ads everywhere. Most analytics platforms (like Posthog

... free tools, I recommend Posthog - Mixpanel. Both of these provide insights into your product usage and user behavior to help you make data-driven decisions and improve your products. Posthog

... What product analytics tools like Amplitude, Mixpanel or Posthog did you try out? Which ones worked best? Most importantly, which team was best at replying and helping to support requests? These tools never work 100% so there is always some custom thing that needs to be done. Hence customer satisfaction is very important I think. I tried: - Mixpanel: No support, good software - Posthog