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PostHog: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog https://github.com/PostHog/posthog if you want to deploy it yourself and https://posthog.com https://posthog.com if

PostHog: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog https://github.com/PostHog/posthog if you want to deploy it yourself and https://posthog.com https://posthog.com if you want the SaaS. I was using Avodocs (https://www.avodocs.com https://www.avodocs.com) to produce a privacy policy for our MLOps platform, https://iko.ai https://iko.ai, but they didn't have PostHog in the list for the "Analytics" section, and they assumed that doing analytics implied sending user data to a third party site or something. I tweeted at them and they were lightning fast in reaching out and adding PostHog to the options of the the privacy policy template. It's really cool: https://twitter.com/jugurthahadjar/status/1447337506563891201 https://twitter.com/jugurthahadjar/status/144733750656389120...

krat0sprakhar 5y ago
+1 for PostHog!
the_arun 5y ago
Regarding PostHog: If am a Startup & still running my beta product, $1500 per month is very expensive for managed service. They should charge it by number of API requests. Then I can start using this and naturally grow into the product. I really do not have bandwidth to self host when I am busy solving core customer problem.
- SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
  Click the "Cloud" option. Free to 1M events.
- Jugurtha 5y ago
  I'm not affiliated with PostHog nor am I privy to their internal tradeoffs; I therefore can't comment on how they should charge. However, their self hosting modality is rather straightforward: it's a docker-compose. It takes a few minutes to set up and mostly just works.
  - the_arun 5y ago
    We need to include high availability, disaster recovery, managing db, security & other good stuff if we need to run in production. This is where managed services excel. I do not want to do all these if I am in early stage of a startup.
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stanislavb 5y ago
And we can find alternative open-source projects to Posthog here https://www.libhunt.com/PostHog/posthog https://www.libhunt.com/PostHog/posthog. In fact, we can find alternatives to most of the popular GitHub projects on LibHunt. All you need to do is open a GitHub repo and replace "github" with "libhunt" within the URL. Disclosure: LibHunt is a project I work on.
- RMPR 5y ago
  > In fact, we can find alternatives to most of the popular GitHub projects on LibHunt How does it compare to alternativeto?
  - stanislavb 5y ago
    LibHunt is focussed on open-source projects only. It's primarily based on common mentions from around the web. On the other hand, SaaSHub (another project I work on) is a direct competitor to AlternativeTo
toshk 5y ago
Side question. Posthog describes an event pipeline. Is there a saas/open source server with event pipelines where you can do add logic to do things, like: send email, notifications, send api call, maybe add custom logic etc. Ive seen things like segment.io, but didn't find a straightforward solution. Example: - if a user finished three workouts, send this notification. - if a user hasn't done a workout in a week remind them etc.
- Jugurtha 5y ago
  As far as I know, PostHog uses ClickHouse, Redis, and Kafka among other things. https://posthog.com/docs/self-host/architecture https://posthog.com/docs/self-host/architecture From the use cases you're describing, you might want to check out https://customer.io https://customer.io
  - sergioisidoro 5y ago
    There is a minimal setup of Posthog with postgres and redis, if I'm not mistaken. The default setup is geared towards large scale deployments. Edit: The base docker compose is: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/blob/master/docker-compose.yml https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/blob/master/docker-compos...
  - toshk 5y ago
    Customer.io seems closest! Nobody else does this, I have like 100's of transactional use cases: - Trial almost ending - New signup - CC expired - Reminders, confirmations - Workouts affirmation, reminder etc. etc. A pain to write a proper rule system and keep overview in own application. The challenge is not the simple emails / notifications. But to combine it with more complicated rules, and and + time conditinos I have the events already in the system, would love to transfer them and have a stable UI / where I can add, create pause etc.
- james_impliu 5y ago
  PostHog released plugins recently (posthog.com/plugins) - these let you trigger webhooks in other systems based on realtime events that have taken place (as well as exporting/importing data/transformations etc). You just write a few lines of TypeScript in the platform (avg LOC is something like 80) - see https://posthog.com/docs/plugins/build https://posthog.com/docs/plugins/build. There are a bunch prebuilt too. Disclaimer: I work there
anurag 5y ago
We created a one-click deploy for Posthog if you want to kick the tires: https://render.com/docs/deploy-posthog https://render.com/docs/deploy-posthog. More OSS analytics tools here: https://render.com/docs/docker#analytics-and-business-intelligence https://render.com/docs/docker#analytics-and-business-intell...

krat0sprakhar 5y ago

+1 for PostHog!

the_arun 5y ago

Regarding PostHog: If am a Startup & still running my beta product, $1500 per month is very expensive for managed service. They should charge it by number of API requests. Then I can start using this and naturally grow into the product. I really do not have bandwidth to self host when I am busy solving core customer problem.

SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
Click the "Cloud" option. Free to 1M events.
Jugurtha 5y ago
I'm not affiliated with PostHog nor am I privy to their internal tradeoffs; I therefore can't comment on how they should charge. However, their self hosting modality is rather straightforward: it's a docker-compose. It takes a few minutes to set up and mostly just works.
- the_arun 5y ago
  We need to include high availability, disaster recovery, managing db, security & other good stuff if we need to run in production. This is where managed services excel. I do not want to do all these if I am in early stage of a startup.
  - deleted 5y ago
    [deleted]

stanislavb 5y ago

And we can find alternative open-source projects to Posthog here https://www.libhunt.com/PostHog/posthog https://www.libhunt.com/PostHog/posthog. In fact, we can find alternatives to most of the popular GitHub projects on LibHunt. All you need to do is open a GitHub repo and replace "github" with "libhunt" within the URL. Disclosure: LibHunt is a project I work on.

RMPR 5y ago
> In fact, we can find alternatives to most of the popular GitHub projects on LibHunt How does it compare to alternativeto?
- stanislavb 5y ago
  LibHunt is focussed on open-source projects only. It's primarily based on common mentions from around the web. On the other hand, SaaSHub (another project I work on) is a direct competitor to AlternativeTo

toshk 5y ago

Side question. Posthog describes an event pipeline. Is there a saas/open source server with event pipelines where you can do add logic to do things, like: send email, notifications, send api call, maybe add custom logic etc. Ive seen things like segment.io, but didn't find a straightforward solution. Example: - if a user finished three workouts, send this notification. - if a user hasn't done a workout in a week remind them etc.

Jugurtha 5y ago
As far as I know, PostHog uses ClickHouse, Redis, and Kafka among other things. https://posthog.com/docs/self-host/architecture https://posthog.com/docs/self-host/architecture From the use cases you're describing, you might want to check out https://customer.io https://customer.io
- sergioisidoro 5y ago
  There is a minimal setup of Posthog with postgres and redis, if I'm not mistaken. The default setup is geared towards large scale deployments. Edit: The base docker compose is: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/blob/master/docker-compose.yml https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/blob/master/docker-compos...
- toshk 5y ago
  Customer.io seems closest! Nobody else does this, I have like 100's of transactional use cases: - Trial almost ending - New signup - CC expired - Reminders, confirmations - Workouts affirmation, reminder etc. etc. A pain to write a proper rule system and keep overview in own application. The challenge is not the simple emails / notifications. But to combine it with more complicated rules, and and + time conditinos I have the events already in the system, would love to transfer them and have a stable UI / where I can add, create pause etc.
james_impliu 5y ago
PostHog released plugins recently (posthog.com/plugins) - these let you trigger webhooks in other systems based on realtime events that have taken place (as well as exporting/importing data/transformations etc). You just write a few lines of TypeScript in the platform (avg LOC is something like 80) - see https://posthog.com/docs/plugins/build https://posthog.com/docs/plugins/build. There are a bunch prebuilt too. Disclaimer: I work there

anurag 5y ago

We created a one-click deploy for Posthog if you want to kick the tires: https://render.com/docs/deploy-posthog https://render.com/docs/deploy-posthog. More OSS analytics tools here: https://render.com/docs/docker#analytics-and-business-intelligence https://render.com/docs/docker#analytics-and-business-intell...