james_impliu

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by james_impliu 6y ago
We're about to change our deployment strategy actually! We think the future for open source is offering private cloud, where we have some sort of control pane to manage upgrades without needing access to your data. That's a win fo
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by james_impliu 6y ago
Ha! I never thought of the terminology this way - some of these are hops some are pivots!
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A story about pivots(posthog.com)
127 points by james_impliu 6y ago|37 comments
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by james_impliu 6y ago
> Among the thousands of open source projects, the ones championed as successful open source business make up a tiny proportion i.e. the exception not the norm. I think this is a correlation not a causation thing. Specifically, open sour
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by james_impliu 6y ago
My company has been using Papercups since it launched. It works pleasingly well for such a new product, and we've found the team very responsive when we've asked for support.
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by james_impliu 6y ago
I'm biased as my team built it, but github.com/posthog/posthog is probably worth a look. We can provide basic GA functionality and a lot of more product analytics focussed functionality + feature flags.
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by james_impliu 6y ago
Confirmed! (I'm one of the founders)
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by james_impliu 6y ago
We've started filming vlogs and have found this problem painful. Specifically, the person filming isn't the person editing, and we have a separate designer - all based in different physical locations. Since video files are so big
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The early days of Gitlab – learnings from a chat with Sid(posthog.com)
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We Ship Whenever(posthog.com)
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by james_impliu 6y ago
PostHog | Growth or Full Stack Engineers or Marketers that speak engineering | Full-time | Remote AND open source! We're building an open source product experimentation platform. YC-backed, and have raised a huge amount of unannounced
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We created super fast Cypress tests on GitHub actions(posthog.com)
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by james_impliu 6y ago
I think the closer your product is to something that developers can use the stronger the OS proposition. If there are other value props (privacy or cheaper at scale) that can definitely help though.
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by james_impliu 6y ago
(I'm the person that wrote the article) A few thoughts: As you say, the thing that's really different about us is exactly that we are focussed on engineers not PMs with our tool. PMs are of course welcome to use it too, but it&#x2
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How I raised $3M for an open source project(posthog.com)
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by james_impliu 6y ago
This was a big part of the reason we built our repo https://github.com/posthog/posthog to enable first party analytics. It'll grab UTM tags all the way through to individual user behavior in your app and then prov
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by james_impliu 7y ago
Do it with someone else. You're then not just accountable to yourself.
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by james_impliu 7y ago
In case you missed it: https://posthog.com/blog/pivot-to-posthog/
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by james_impliu 7y ago
Thanks :) I actually find this a really interesting topic. This approach can have some merit - ie it leads to you not overspending and running out of money if you are reliant on new business targets being hit. However, the ideal situation i
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by james_impliu 7y ago
This book is incredibly helpful - I just wish they'd do a follow up book around how you interview users on your product once it exists. I guess the same principle applies "tell me about a new feature you want for our product... Di
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by james_impliu 7y ago
It's also definitely less windy than you think it is.
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by james_impliu 7y ago
Ha! It is way harder than you'd think to write in US English.
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by james_impliu 7y ago
Good point! Updated it :)
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by james_impliu 7y ago
It's really tough - we had to get professional advice. YC connected us with an immigration attorney the moment we got accepted and he helped greatly to make sure we approached this in the right way. It would have been a maze to do this
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by james_impliu 7y ago
Thanks - it's really nice to see the community sharing it! To your point on "in a few seconds"... We're currently trying to build out more libraries as fast as we can so people working on apps in lots of languages can ea
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by james_impliu 7y ago
Hence this handy guide! It turns out you can get down not via the road... although it doesn't appear on Google Maps.
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by james_impliu 7y ago
There's a mix, so you can request 1:1 office hours whenever you want to speak to a particular partner. The onus is on you to drive the agenda in these. We tend to use them to talk through what we're doing next. ie after our HN lau
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Our experience moving to SF to do YC(posthog.com)
155 points by james_impliu 7y ago|54 comments
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by james_impliu 7y ago
Hey, I'm James one of the founders of PostHog, a YC W20 company. We noticed that lots of people blog about the application process, but few blog whilst they're actually going through the program. We recently launched our company o
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What PostHog did to get into YC(posthog.com)
2 points by james_impliu 7y ago|1 comments

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