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I just noticed that i can change that default, but personally found that a bit annoying largely because I felt lost. Also i don't like how \"People\" is not buried in data now, pretty sure this was just in the left hand bar. I can \"star\" it, but its still nested in a wierd UI drawer. I wish it wa", "context": "builds their own product, founder perspective", "use_case": "product analytics", "switched_from": "", "story": "PostHog Open Sourced"}, {"id": 781577968, "item_id": 48848623, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848623", "by": "heyheyhouhou", "date": "2026-07-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used to love the simplicity of PostHog and that's why I pushed my team moving to it from Google Analytics.", "excerpt": "I dont think is something in specific but I used to love the simplicity of PostHog and that's why I pushed my team moving to it from Google Analytics. That has changed though. 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I can ask it a product question, ask it to slice and dice data, etc and it does a really good job of sifting through my events, doing analysis, building dashboards, etc. It's normally boring tedious work to do that stuff in PostHog so I'm impressed and glad it works.", "context": "", "use_case": "product analytics", "switched_from": "", "story": "PostHog Open Sourced"}, {"id": 781576640, "item_id": 48848540, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848540", "by": "bredren", "date": "2026-07-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "what they have now is an ~idealized version of AI product.", "excerpt": "I used their AI chat last night and I was impressed with the product implementation. I was able to use it to make quick sense of data and even generate prompts to solve problems locally. IDK what the prior AI behaviors have been, but for me, what they have now is an ~idealized version of AI product. 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I can ask it a product question, ask it to slice and dice data, etc and it does a really good job of sifting through my events, doing analysis, building dashboards, etc. It's normally boring tedious work to do that stuff in PostHog so I'm impressed and glad it works.", "context": "", "use_case": "product analytics", "switched_from": "", "story": "PostHog Open Sourced"}, {"id": 781576640, "item_id": 48848540, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848540", "by": "bredren", "date": "2026-07-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "what they have now is an ~idealized version of AI product.", "excerpt": "I used their AI chat last night and I was impressed with the product implementation. I was able to use it to make quick sense of data and even generate prompts to solve problems locally. IDK what the prior AI behaviors have been, but for me, what they have now is an ~idealized version of AI product. It is basically what I'd do if they didn't offer it but not as well: export data, import their docs in md., import some", "context": "", "use_case": "analytics with AI chat", "switched_from": "", "story": "PostHog Open Sourced"}]}, {"label": "Self-hosting", "summary": "A commenter who recently switched to self-hosted PostHog says it works fine.", "quotes": [{"id": 781564368, "item_id": 48847773, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847773", "by": "jnstrdm05", "date": "2026-07-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I just recently switched to posthog self hosted and it works fine", "excerpt": "I just recently switched to posthog self hosted and it works fine", "context": "", "use_case": "self-hosted analytics", "switched_from": "", "story": "PostHog Open Sourced"}]}, {"label": "MCP integration", "summary": "The MCP server was welcomed as a way to have an AI assistant make changes.", "quotes": [{"id": 781577968, "item_id": 48848623, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848623", "by": "heyheyhouhou", "date": "2026-07-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used to love the simplicity of PostHog and that's why I pushed my team moving to it from Google Analytics.", "excerpt": "I dont think is something in specific but I used to love the simplicity of PostHog and that's why I pushed my team moving to it from Google Analytics. 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I also agree that the nav, structure, and defaults changing keep being un-intuitive and are making it harder to find the things that I use and that matter to me and my orgs.", "context": "", "use_case": "analytics", "switched_from": "", "story": "PostHog Open Sourced"}, {"id": 781580368, "item_id": 48848773, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848773", "by": "xtracto", "date": "2026-07-09", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the UI got crappified with AI", "excerpt": "I remember around 2 years ago give or take, we used it at a company for A/B testing. The UI was sensible enough. But fast forward to a couple of weeks ago, I opened an account and I just could not understand what I saw. I remember it being pretty good, too bad the UI got crappified with AI.", "context": "", "use_case": "A/B testing and analytics", "switched_from": "", "story": "PostHog Open Sourced"}]}, {"label": "Privacy concerns", "summary": "Commenters raise concerns about data use for business purposes and session replay capturing user input.", "quotes": [{"id": 772741760, "item_id": 48296360, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296360", "by": "tartieret", "date": "2026-05-27", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Now they want to use the data for a business purpose. Working hard towards enshitification?", "excerpt": "I initially used Posthog as an alternative to Google Analytics with more privacy. Now they want to use the data for a business purpose. Working hard towards enshitification?", "context": "", "use_case": "privacy-friendly analytics", "switched_from": "Google Analytics", "story": "PostHog will train AI models with your data (opted-in by default)"}, {"id": 767307280, "item_id": 47956705, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956705", "by": "lukewarm707", "date": "2026-04-29", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it literally sends you screen capture. and yes, you can id the user and capture inputs.", "excerpt": "go on posthog: https://posthog.com/session-replay \"Watch people use your product\" - that's their own words! it literally sends you screen capture. and yes, you can id the user and capture inputs. YC 2020. we love to see it.", "context": "", "use_case": "session replay / telemetry", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Drive any macOS app in the background without stealing the cursor"}]}, {"label": "Codebase quality", "summary": "One commenter calls the open-source codebase in terrible condition.", "quotes": [{"id": 734288896, "item_id": 45893056, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45893056", "by": "usernamed7", "date": "2025-11-11", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the lack of collab is why their codebase is in such terrible condition", "excerpt": "Take a look at their codebase (posthog is open source) and then tell me again that collaboration sucks, because i feel like the lack of collab is why their codebase is in such terrible condition.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Collaboration sucks"}]}], "who": [{"by": "blueshoe", "context": "builds their own product, founder perspective", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848387", "date": "2026-07-09"}, {"by": "cadamsdotcom", "context": "building a SaaS", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46493912", "date": "2026-01-04"}], "tags": ["self-hostable", "for SaaS builders", "for A/B testing", "Google Analytics replacement"], "use_cases": ["product analytics", "a/b testing and analytics", "analytics with ai chat", "analytics", "self-hosted analytics", "privacy-friendly analytics"], "compared": [], "makers": [{"id": 751242256, "item_id": 46952641, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46952641", "by": "yakkomajuri", "date": "2026-02-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "the PostHog roadmap items are all GitHub issues that users can upvote which gives a great sense of who wants what in the community.", "excerpt": "If you want to go a step further the PostHog roadmap items are all GitHub issues that users can upvote which gives a great sense of who wants what in the community. https://posthog.com/roadmap (disclaimer: I used to work at PostHog)", "context": "former PostHog employee", "use_case": "public product roadmap", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? 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I can ask it a product question, ask it to slice and dice data, etc and it does a really good job of sifting through my events, doing analysis, building dashboards, etc. It's normally boring tedious work to do that stuff in PostHog so I'm impressed and glad it works.", "context": "", "use_case": "product analytics", "switched_from": "", "story": "PostHog Open Sourced"}, {"id": 781577968, "item_id": 48848623, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848623", "by": "heyheyhouhou", "date": "2026-07-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used to love the simplicity of PostHog and that's why I pushed my team moving to it from Google Analytics.", "excerpt": "I dont think is something in specific but I used to love the simplicity of PostHog and that's why I pushed my team moving to it from Google Analytics. That has changed though. Last time I used PH, I found myself not finding the things I needed so ended up connecting the mcp and asking claude to change things for me. MCP was a nice addition, so thanks for that. The problem of mcp is that it prevents product discoverab", "context": "", "use_case": "product analytics", "switched_from": "Google Analytics", "story": "PostHog Open Sourced"}, {"id": 781576640, "item_id": 48848540, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848540", "by": "bredren", "date": "2026-07-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "what they have now is an ~idealized version of AI product.", "excerpt": "I used their AI chat last night and I was impressed with the product implementation. I was able to use it to make quick sense of data and even generate prompts to solve problems locally. IDK what the prior AI behaviors have been, but for me, what they have now is an ~idealized version of AI product. It is basically what I'd do if they didn't offer it but not as well: export data, import their docs in md., import some", "context": "", "use_case": "analytics with AI chat", "switched_from": "", "story": "PostHog Open Sourced"}, {"id": 781576176, "item_id": 48848511, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848511", "by": "paularmstrong", "date": "2026-07-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "The product itself was so good that it doesn't need this whole guessing-machine-layer on top of it.", "excerpt": "It's all the AI bloat for me. It keeps getting shoved in my face and they _really_ want me to use it. But I neither want nor need it. The product itself was so good that it doesn't need this whole guessing-machine-layer on top of it. I also agree that the nav, structure, and defaults changing keep being un-intuitive and are making it harder to find the things that I use and that matter to me and my orgs.", "context": "", "use_case": "analytics", "switched_from": "", "story": "PostHog Open Sourced"}, {"id": 781574192, "item_id": 48848387, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848387", "by": "blueshoe", "date": "2026-07-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I still looooove your product and would still use it 1100 times over GA any day.", "excerpt": "Couple things for me: - I missed the default dashboard being my homepage and not having to navigate to it via an extra step. I just noticed that i can change that default, but personally found that a bit annoying largely because I felt lost. Also i don't like how \"People\" is not buried in data now, pretty sure this was just in the left hand bar. I can \"star\" it, but its still nested in a wierd UI drawer. I wish it wa", "context": "builds their own product, founder perspective", "use_case": "product analytics", "switched_from": "", "story": "PostHog Open Sourced"}, {"id": 781565504, "item_id": 48847844, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847844", "by": "heyheyhouhou", "date": "2026-07-09", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I used to like their product but now they too many modules and knobs that I find it difficult to understand and navigate.", "excerpt": "I used to like their product but now they too many modules and knobs that I find it difficult to understand and navigate. I think is a bit of product slopification.", "context": "", "use_case": "product analytics", "switched_from": "", "story": "PostHog Open Sourced"}, {"id": 781564368, "item_id": 48847773, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847773", "by": "jnstrdm05", "date": "2026-07-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I just recently switched to posthog self hosted and it works fine", "excerpt": "I just recently switched to posthog self hosted and it works fine", "context": "", "use_case": "self-hosted analytics", "switched_from": "", "story": "PostHog Open Sourced"}, {"id": 772741760, "item_id": 48296360, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296360", "by": "tartieret", "date": "2026-05-27", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Now they want to use the data for a business purpose. Working hard towards enshitification?", "excerpt": "I initially used Posthog as an alternative to Google Analytics with more privacy. Now they want to use the data for a business purpose. Working hard towards enshitification?", "context": "", "use_case": "privacy-friendly analytics", "switched_from": "Google Analytics", "story": "PostHog will train AI models with your data (opted-in by default)"}, {"id": 767307280, "item_id": 47956705, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956705", "by": "lukewarm707", "date": "2026-04-29", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it literally sends you screen capture. and yes, you can id the user and capture inputs.", "excerpt": "go on posthog: https://posthog.com/session-replay \"Watch people use your product\" - that's their own words! it literally sends you screen capture. and yes, you can id the user and capture inputs. YC 2020. we love to see it.", "context": "", "use_case": "session replay / telemetry", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Drive any macOS app in the background without stealing the cursor"}, {"id": 743902596, "item_id": 46493912, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46493912", "by": "cadamsdotcom", "date": "2026-01-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "add user-behavior logging (Amplitude/Posthog)", "excerpt": "I have my very fast macbook pro at my desk in my office, and I use tmux and tailscale and git worktrees and I\u2019ve built a notification setup like this author. Thanks to tailscale and ssh I can vibecode on the go from my phone with this setup. While it\u2019s great to leave a task running, no matter what I do I can\u2019t achieve the type of high quality work on the go that I can when I\u2019m sitting at my desk. For me working on a ", "context": "building a SaaS", "use_case": "user behavior analytics", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Code On-the-Go"}, {"id": 734288896, "item_id": 45893056, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45893056", "by": "usernamed7", "date": "2025-11-11", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the lack of collab is why their codebase is in such terrible condition", "excerpt": "Take a look at their codebase (posthog is open source) and then tell me again that collaboration sucks, because i feel like the lack of collab is why their codebase is in such terrible condition.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Collaboration sucks"}]}