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

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? 🤯

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

Love PostHog! The tool that finally made me churn from Amplitude. 1/10th of the price, 10x the value. Highly recommend!

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!

Have been using Posthog for a while now. The customizable and interactive dashboard is really helpful to understand your traffic indepth. Great tool team! Keep up the good work

I've been using PostHog for 4 months on Typebot. It is so good. Product improvement is extremely fast, the team is available and it's Open source. Congrats on the PH launch guys! 👏

Awesome low-code solution for this industry and with an open source approach which will win on the long term 🔥 Congrats! ?makers

Been using Posthog for a while now, and I absolutely love it! 🚀 And the company handbook is seriously one of the best things the team has put out on the internet! Absolute dream company to potentially work at 🔥

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)_/¯

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!!!

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.

Used PostHog since the start and across three currently operating companies. Big fan of the Dev culture they've built and responsive slack channel (even if I'd prefer it on Discord 😅) Product has come a very very long way in a short period of time and fulfills all of our current requirements. I'm excited to see how the product develops into the future, we're at the point now where features are being added which I didn't know I wanted until I got them.

Early happy user of Posthog here! At Saga, we tried pretty much every product analytics product out there. In the end, we decided to self-host Posthog because of the privacy benefits and the better tracking capability compared to the alternatives. Posthog tracks more events, while other products get blocked and show unreliable results. It's amazing how many great features the team has shipped over the last 12 months. Apart from the core analytics product, we are huge fans of feature flags and use them constantly to ship and test features with our users.

Thanks for hunting us Nicolas! I joined PostHog six months ago and it's amazing to see how far the product has come even in that time, with new tools such as correlation analysis and multi-variate feature flags. These are tools I'd have loved to use at my previous start-ups! The pace of development is really exciting and I love seeing how our community embraces each new release and contributes to our open-source codebase. It's even led me to start coding a bit myself!

Being an open source project ourselves, we have a bias towards open source products which does the task well. PostHog is simple to use and has a generous free usage tier which you can use for your analytics needs. Thanks @james_hawkins3 for making this

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!

Controlling & owning your own data is great and all, but an actually good analytics platform that's open sourced is a game changer. Definitely looking to use this and know I can't paint myself into a corner. Not going to miss fiddling with Mixpanel graph limitations & APIs!

Happy PostHog user here - great job everyone. I stream all the PostHog events from the cloud platform into a Postgres table, which is fantastic if you're a SQL junkie. Keep up the good work!

Congratulations on the launch. We saw a shoutout from someone on your team on our Twitter today and we hope Posthog is getting all the attention it deserves.

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 😉).