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by james_impliu 4y ago
hey, I wrote this piece and realised it was here! to respond to a few of these points... > What do you plan to do if you run out of your current money without being profitable yet? We maintain default alive status (there's a good Pa
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How we built an app server (from MVP to billions of events)(posthog.com)
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by james_impliu 4y ago
(Founder) To be blunt, we cannot guarantee not sharing data in the scenario that the US government forces us to transfer data to them from our EU Cloud. We have self hosting for those who want 100% certainty of GDPR compliance, as then we r
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by james_impliu 4y ago
(Ironically it might be an ad blocker in your browser causing this!)
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by james_impliu 4y ago
At PostHog we've hired a bunch of people like this. One word of caution - sometimes we get a contribution from people right ahead of applying for a job. The best applicants are ones who are existing users and who really are interested
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by james_impliu 4y ago
It's because we wanted our team to be aware that we'd have this intention so we don't miss out! If someone leaves PostHog voluntarily to start a new company (i) that's sad for us but is a pretty cool reason to leave and
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by james_impliu 4y ago
(I’m a cofounder there) You are correct - haven’t actually done this yet since we’ve had no chance to so don’t take too much from this policy until we’ve done it a few times! We set up hedgehog.vc which is what we’d use to fund ex employees
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Job interview questions engineers should ask, but don't(posthog.com)
524 points by james_impliu 4y ago|223 comments
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by james_impliu 4y ago
For small sites there's a hobby deployment ( https://posthog.com/docs/self-host/deploy/hobby ) that costs $10/month to host (we can't get it below that at the moment), or we give a lot of free us
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by james_impliu 4y ago
There is a range of paid extra functionality that isn't MIT licensed (the extras that make up part 2's paid offer above), so if AWS hosts it "competitively" it'll be missing many of the extra features larger organiz
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by james_impliu 4y ago
(I'm a PostHog cofounder - we get about 35% of revenue from (2) and 65% from (3) below) There are three established ways to make money from open source if you're thinking about this.. my default recommendation would be the exact m
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by james_impliu 4y ago
Had this happen (random outreach). Led to a series A. Respectfully disagree - I don't think competitors copying is a significant risk early on, compared to running out of money whilst trying to hit product market fit.
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World's biggest plant discovered(bbc.co.uk)
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by james_impliu 4y ago
Yep! We use it for gatsby (statically generated docs) ourselves.
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Show HN: Squeak – add threaded discussions to any page of your docs(github.com)
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by james_impliu 4y ago
Yes, there is. You can approve both questions and responses fro this exact reason
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by james_impliu 4y ago
Hi HN, Thanks HN: I'm James - I'm a cofounder of PostHog (popular open source project), which was born on HackerNews in 2020 Along the way, we created a Slack group that quickly grew to a couple of thousand users - mostly needing
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Show HN: Q&A.js – add threaded discussions to any page of your docs or website(squeak.posthog.com)
9 points by james_impliu 4y ago|5 comments
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Counter intuitive lessons about PostHog's pricing(posthog.com)
5 points by james_impliu 5y ago|0 comments
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by james_impliu 5y ago
For anyone reading with children... My daughter has cancer in her eyes. The only symptom was a barely noticeable squint despite it being very late stage (and then suddenly, dilated pupil and a color change in her pupil). In theory, the othe
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I used to think you don't need product people. I was wrong(posthog.com)
2 points by james_impliu 5y ago|0 comments
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Is Google Analytics illegal in your country?(isgoogleanalyticsillegal.com)
323 points by james_impliu 5y ago|236 comments
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by james_impliu 5y ago
PostHog has iOS/Android/Flutter/React Native libraries for analytics - full details https://posthog.com/docs/integrate#client-libraries . We don't have session recording / feature flags everywhe
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by 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 writ
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by james_impliu 5y ago
As an employer, I find LinkedIn profiles faster (and thus nicer) to screen (we're a company that doesn't ask for a set application format) - since you don't have to adjust your brain to the format! I'm less likely to mis
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by james_impliu 5y ago
PostHog | Multiple Roles | Remote | Full Time | https://posthog.com We're an open source platform for product analytics that took off after a launch HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22376732 ). Our m
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by james_impliu 5y ago
Controversial take: We found that we get better responsiveness from our open source community on Slack at PostHog, probably as our users have it open for work already and are used to posting without too much thought, whereas making a post o
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We felt quitting our jobs wasn't that risky to build PostHog(posthog.com)
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by james_impliu 6y ago
A thousand times yes.
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by james_impliu 6y ago
The weird thing was that the people I'd helped with nothing in it for me ended up being the best place to start. It was often friends at startups who need a website building, or some friendly advice. That's not super helpful if yo

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