PostHog - An all-in-one product analytics suite you can self-host

Hey there 👋 Yakko from PostHog here. When I saw that people in our team were endlessly refreshing this page to see how we're doing on our launch, I thought that was outrageous. Here's James, a few comments above this one, talking about how PostHog lets you build your own plugins. Yet we're out here refreshing things manually? So me and @leggetter teamed up and built a PostHog plugin, in 20 minutes, to do the refreshing for us. Now, our team gets an update on Slack every minute with our vote count and ranking, and we also populate this public dashboard with the results: https://app.posthog.com/shared_d.... The code is available here: https://gist.github.com/yakkomaj... You can decide for yourself if other product analytics platforms can do that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hi Hunters! I’m James, the tallest co-founder of PostHog. Also, the CEO. PostHog is an all-in-one product analytics suite that includes all the features you’d expect, plus some you don’t. Yes, it’s got funnels, retention charts, user paths, cohorts, trend graphs... It also has session recordings, multivariate testing, feature flags, correlation analysis and the option to host on your own infrastructure or in the cloud. Oh, and it’s open source too! 🙋 Why self host your product analytics? Good question. Using PostHog in our cloud is a great way to get started quickly, but a lot of teams don’t want to share their data with third parties or are prohibited from doing so. Hosting on your own infrastructure gets around that. You don’t have to share data with anyone, even us. Keeping data on your own systems also makes compliance a lot easier, as you don’t need to anonymize data for HIPAA, setup GDPR processes or worry about SOC 2 certification. It also means you don’t need to rely on third-party cookies to capture user behaviour, which is nice. 🧑‍💻 Can PostHog integrate with my data warehouse? Yes, PostHog does that too. So glad you asked. PostHog enables you to push to or pull from all major data platforms, such as BigQuery, Snowflake, S3, Redshift and more. We also integrate with many tools where you’ll want product usage data - such as Hubspot and Salesforce. Not enough? You can build your own plugins too. 🤷 What doesn’t PostHog have? In a word, SQL. PostHog is an entirely self-serve platform that enables anyone to get the information they need. You don’t need to write SQL queries, nor ask data scientists for help finding information. We aim to answer 90% of your product questions out of the box, and give you direct database access and warehouse exports for the handful of times you need to go beyond our functionality. 💁 Why launch PostHog on ProductHunt now? This week we updated PostHog to v1.30, launching a brand new interface, as well as several under-the-hood improvements. We’ve also recently added features such as correlation analysis, improved path analysis and multivariate A/B testing so you can create more sophisticated experiments. We’d love to know what you think! —- Want to know more? You can get started for free or schedule a demo with me personally or one of our engineers (we don’t have salespeople). Better yet, ask me questions in the comments!

This looks really great. I am also blown away by the handbook you all put together. The levels of transparency and clarity of mission are fantastic

At Mention Me, data privacy was one of the critical requirements when choosing our product analytics stack. At first, we found PostHog hoping it could do the job - we were not wrong, it does this job (being self-hosted on our infrastructure) and more! Not only were we able to dig deep into the usage of our product (and stop making assumptions in Google Analytics), we were also able to replace HotJar (as PostHog has great user session recording / heat-maps) and stop the search for a feature flagging tool - as PostHog does this too! The best thing about this is we can build a cohort/segment based on user properties, analyse how they use our product, watch where they drop off on the funnel - then A/B test new features to them. All in the same tool. Aside from the PostHog features, the team / community is great too. The fact it's open source means I can contribute in the roadmap by suggesting features (and track their progress on GitHub) and also dive in myself if I want to implement something. Thanks for the great work PostHog team, and I can't what to see what new features you will build next (and other tools we can replace as a result 😉).

Hi everyone! As companies have gotten more sophisticated, analytics has become more important than ever. Yet, ad blockers and privacy regulations have also made it harder to gather data! That's why I think PostHog is a game-changer: it's a full-featured product analytics suite you can host on your existing systems. There's no need to risk breaches by sending data to third parties or to waste time on lengthy compliance checks. You don't even need SQL. Product analytics are essential for any modern business, but this is perfect for heavily regulated sectors, such as healthcare or finance! Did I mention it's open source? 🤯

The PostHog team is one of the most attentive and committed I've seen. Their dedication to learning and working in public has produced an amazing tool. I have no doubt it'll continue to get even better!

We have been using PostHog for a number of months now and found it very easy to implement. Its toolbar feature means in some cases we can get metrics on specific areas with out needing to instrument our code. We use Redshift for our Datawarehouse and the posted posthog instance supports pushing the data into this so we have all of our product analytics in one place. All in all a spectacular product. IT is worth noting we did consider self hosting but came to the conclusion that it was far better to use the hosted solution where we have the support from a great team.

Posthog is awesome - we use it heavily and it is by far the best open source analytics platform, with a great team and support behind it. Thank you ?makers for building it.

Love PostHog!!! I have used many similar (but less developer focused and less product led) tools in this space and it's like night and day going from something like an old school stodgy enterprise software approach (i won't name names :) ) that's not at all flexible or adaptable to the much more modern, developer first, event based approach of PostHog. For example - you want your events to stream into BigQuery - no problem they have a plugin for that - and "it just works" (https://github.com/PostHog/bigqu...). With other vendors they would usually try and turn something like this into an expensive up-sell and put obstacles in the way of you actually getting back your own events out of the platform. I think they have a great platform and right abstractions of events, actions, etc. that's getting more feature rich every week and it's great that since it's still a somewhat young project they are really open to feedback and suggestions and actually are able to continually deliver improvement in the product on an ongoing basis which is pretty delightful as an end user. Last thing that's a biggie for me too is the great culture and openness of the project and team - it's just been so easy and painless to work with them. Even if we do run into some sort of issue or feature we might want to see in the product - its as simple as a feature request in the GH repo and can have full transparency and tracking on it from there as well as see if other users feel the same way. So this lets you feel like you can easily be part of the community around PostHog and help to continually make it better. I'll stop now though as this is looking like some sort of paid sponsorship almost :) Actually, to be balanced i'll give one of the small "con's" i've found. - It's still not quite as feature rich (yet - and maybe never will be as its not trying to be all things to everyone) as something like Google Analytics. But like i said i've been surprised how quickly they have been able to continually deliver new features and be thoughtful about the sort of features they would like to focus on vs those that might be more of a distraction longer term. So with GA you might have features for all sorts of things you never even realised, and that can be great, but you have to really fit your approach into the specific GA implementation etc and that can be limiting in the longer term and good luck getting your data back out to enrich it with some other system you use. For us a simple, clean, modern, event based approach to our product analytics has actually allowed us to think about our telemetry in different ways that would not have been possible in the traditional GA approach. Being able to just define whatever events you want and put whatever in them you want and have it all just work has kinda been like a super power for us in trying to become much more product led at Netdata. Anyway - anyone interested in PostHog feel free to give me a ping if any questions and i'll be happy to help give some pointers as if it may or may not be a good fit for you. https://www.linkedin.com/in/andr...

PostHog is the best! I've used it for a couple of months now for my iOS app as a self-hosted solution and it works very well. Even though I don't have any DevOps experience, I was able to deploy the k8s solution to DigitalOcean. There is no other open-source, privacy-friendly analytics tool for mobile apps! Thanks so much for the great work!!!