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Why our website looks like an operating system
I have a problem with many large, technical websites. Often times, I’ll want to refer to different pages at the same time. So I’ll CMD + click “a…
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Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've learned
Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes to marketing to engineers . Paid ads is a…
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Job interview questions engineers should ask, but don't
Since we started PostHog, our team has interviewed 725 people. What's one thing I've taken from this? It's normal for candidates not to ask harder…
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Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum
One of the great things about being open source is that we’ve grown a vibrant community around the project. Since launch we’ve accepted code from over…
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Annoying A/B testing mistakes
Running experiments is equal parts powerful and terrifying. Powerful because you can validate changes that will transform your product for the better…
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DeskHog, an open-source developer toy
It's a developer toy that brings developers joy. Open-source. 3D-printed. Palm-sized.
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Developer marketing for early-stage startups – what we’ve learned
Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes to marketing to engineers. There are plenty of…
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Automating a Software Company with GitHub Actions
When developing software, there's no shortage of work: building new features, fixing bugs, maintaining infrastructure, launching new systems, phasing…
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Training our own AI models
I really think we're on the verge of some of our best work through the next six months. Over the past year, we've started building more AI-powered…
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Moving our warehouse off DuckDB
We moved our warehouse product off DuckDB and DuckLake onto our own flavor of Trino and a new open table format, HogLake. Here's what broke at scale and why.
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How we raised $3M for an open source project
Open source projects have long battled with how to finance themselves. PostHog is lucky to have significant funding and wanted to share what we did…
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I rewrote PostHog's SQL parser, 70x faster, while barely looking at the code
After the success of using agents to improve query performance through autoresearch , I wanted to try something more ambitious. I rewrote PostHog's…
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Our experience moving to SF to do YC
YC (a startup accelerator we are taking part in) ask you to move to the Bay Area for the whole program. This gives you “a socially acceptable excuse…
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A story about pivots
PostHog has pivoted a lot . After 5 pivots in 6 months, we got into Y Combinator last year, pivoted again whilst we were there and have now gone…