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![It's a truth universally acknowledged that every business reliant on a monolithic enterprise product has need of an open source alternative... probably. In this guide we're looking at open-source analytics tools, which we've split into two broad…]()
Aug 25, 2022 by Joe Martin, Andy Vandervell
![PostHog recently swapped out Docker for Depot in their container image builds within GitHub Actions. The results are outstanding, taking the average build time from 16 minutes to 3 minutes. Building the PostHog images via depot build instead of…]()
Aug 5, 2022 by Kyle Galbraith, Jacob Gillespie
![Feature flags, aka feature toggles, turn specific functions on and off during runtime. Rather than maintaining multiple feature branches in your source code, feature flags hide code or behaviors and allow you to enable or disable features on demand…]()
Jun 30, 2022 by Hanna Crombie
![Also known as split testing or multivariate testing, A/B testing is the practice of splitting your audience to test variations of a product design, new feature, call to action, landing page – anything you can imagine, really. Here, we’re sharing our…]()
May 25, 2022 by Hanna Crombie
![PostHog and Amplitude are both product analytics tools. That means they tell you where users are coming from and how they interact with your product, so that you can find ways to make it better. But we think PostHog is a more powerful tool for…]()
May 13, 2022 by Andy Vandervell, Joe Martin
![Most analytics tools just give you the hard numbers: views, clicks, conversions. This is a good starting point, but statistics alone give you an incomplete picture – why did the user rageclick or fail to convert? Enter session recording. Why you need…]()
Apr 7, 2022 by Hanna Crombie
![Valentine's Day is coming up and we'd like to share our love for the open-source community that helps power PostHog! Here's how: For every GitHub star we receive on the PostHog repo between now and the end of Valentine's Day, we'll donate $5 USD…]()
Feb 8, 2022 by Andy Vandervell
![I recently wrote a blog post for my personal site about the lessons I'd learned from leading my first two projects as a Software Engineer at PostHog . In it, I lay out a five-step approach for how I own projects. One common theme that stood out…]()
Feb 4, 2022 by Neil Kakkar
![The famous line from Marc Andreesen that “software is eating the world” has become part and parcel of modern technology’s canon and it continues to act as a rallying cry for the industry as a whole. But there is another phenomenon riding on those…]()
Jan 28, 2022 by Avi Press
![PostHog is a self-hosted, open-source analytics tool . Transparency is one of our core values and we believe self-hosting is the best solution for many businesses, especially large enterprises with complex needs. But, why? Why do we believe in…]()
Jan 14, 2022 by Andy Vandervell
![Black Friday is normally an occasion to shop around for a new TV or mobile phone. But we wanted to do something a little different, something to celebrate and support the open source community which we both rely upon and are proud to be part of. So…]()
Nov 25, 2021 by Joe Martin
![Thinner docs, better products The highest priority for support at any company is shortening the feedback loop between your customers and your product team. The fastest way to achieve this is by having your product builders interface directly with…]()
Jun 15, 2021 by Mo Shehu
How we monetized our open source devtool
Apr 30, 2021 by Mo Shehu
Should open source projects track you?
Sep 29, 2020
Open source is eating SaaS
Aug 25, 2020
The Early Days of GitLab - A Chat with Sid Sijbrandij
Aug 3, 2020 by James Hawkins