PostHog
Open-source product analytics platform with session replay, feature flags, and A/B testing.
HN commenters like it as an alternative to Google Analytics123 and for a built-in AI assistant that analyzes events and builds dashboards.45 The most common complaint is that recent UI changes and added modules make it harder to navigate,678910 with some calling the AI features unwanted bloat.1112
Why people recommend it
Google Analytics alternative · 3
Teams moved to it from Google Analytics, and one founder prefers it far over GA.
“I still looooove your product and would still use it 1100 times over GA any day.”
“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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“Now they want to use the data for a business purpose. Working hard towards enshitification?”
AI analysis · 2
The AI chat slices data, analyzes events and builds dashboards well.
“I'm normally not a fan of AI being shoved into products but I love it in PostHog.”
“what they have now is an ~idealized version of AI product.”
Self-hosting · 1
A commenter who recently switched to self-hosted PostHog says it works fine.
“I just recently switched to posthog self hosted and it works fine”
MCP integration · 1
The MCP server was welcomed as a way to have an AI assistant make changes.
“I used to love the simplicity of PostHog and that's why I pushed my team moving to it from Google Analytics.”
Caveats and dissent
Confusing navigation · 3
Added modules, settings and changed defaults make the UI harder to understand and navigate.
“I used to like their product but now they too many modules and knobs that I find it difficult to understand and navigate.”
“The product itself was so good that it doesn't need this whole guessing-machine-layer on top of it.”
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“I still looooove your product and would still use it 1100 times over GA any day.”
AI bloat · 2
Some feel AI features are pushed into the product and clutter the UI.
“The product itself was so good that it doesn't need this whole guessing-machine-layer on top of it.”
Privacy concerns · 2
Commenters raise concerns about data use for business purposes and session replay capturing user input.
“Now they want to use the data for a business purpose. Working hard towards enshitification?”
“it literally sends you screen capture. and yes, you can id the user and capture inputs.”
Codebase quality · 1
One commenter calls the open-source codebase in terrible condition.
“the lack of collab is why their codebase is in such terrible condition”
Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“the PostHog roadmap items are all GitHub issues that users can upvote which gives a great sense of who wants what in the community.”
Threads where it came up
- PostHog Open Sourced 8 mentions
- PostHog will train AI models with your data (opted-in by default) 1 mention
- Show HN: Drive any macOS app in the background without stealing the cursor 1 mention
- Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2026) 1 mention
- Claude Code On-the-Go 1 mention
- Collaboration sucks 1 mention
Data: posthog.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 12
“the UI got crappified with AI”
“I'm normally not a fan of AI being shoved into products but I love it in PostHog.”
“I used to love the simplicity of PostHog and that's why I pushed my team moving to it from Google Analytics.”
“what they have now is an ~idealized version of AI product.”
“The product itself was so good that it doesn't need this whole guessing-machine-layer on top of it.”
“I still looooove your product and would still use it 1100 times over GA any day.”
“I used to like their product but now they too many modules and knobs that I find it difficult to understand and navigate.”
“I just recently switched to posthog self hosted and it works fine”
“Now they want to use the data for a business purpose. Working hard towards enshitification?”
“it literally sends you screen capture. and yes, you can id the user and capture inputs.”
“add user-behavior logging (Amplitude/Posthog)”
“the lack of collab is why their codebase is in such terrible condition”