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PostHog | Remote (US/Europe timezones) | Senior full-stack engineer | https://posthog.com

PostHog is open-source product analytics. Graduated YC W20, we were the most popular B2B software HN launch since 2012. Our GitHub repo [0] has 3.4k stars and a growing and active community. We've raised significant funding with 10 years of runway and are growing quickly. We're 10+ people.

We're looking for a full-stack engineer, someone who knows what a good product should look like. Our stack is Django/React/Redux (Kea -- main contributor works at PostHog too!).

We have a culture of written async communication (see our handbook [1]), lots of individual responsibility and an opportunity to make a huge impact. Being fully remote means we're able to create a team that is truly diverse. We're based all over the world, and the team includes ex data team leads from Uber, former YC founders, CTOs turned developers and recent grads.

To apply see https://posthog.com/careers or email me directly, tim@posthog.com

[0] https://github.com/posthog/posthog [1] https://posthog.com/handbook/

PostHog | Remote (US/Europe timezones) | Senior full-stack engineer | https://posthog.com

PostHog is open-source product analytics. Graduated YC W20, we were the most popular B2B software HN launch since 2012. Our GitHub repo [0] has 3.2k stars and a growing and active community. We've raised significant funding with 10 years of runway and are growing quickly. We're 10+ people.

We're looking for a full-stack engineer, someone who knows what a good product should look like. Our stack is Django/React/Redux (Kea -- main contributor works at PostHog too!).

We have a culture of written async communication (see our handbook [1]), lots of individual responsibility and an opportunity to make a huge impact. Being fully remote means we're able to create a team that is truly diverse. We're based all over the world, and the team includes ex data team leads from Uber, former YC founders, CTOs turned developers and recent grads.

To apply see https://posthog.com/careers or email me directly, tim@posthog.com

[0] https://github.com/posthog/posthog [1] https://posthog.com/handbook/

PostHog | Remote (Europe/US timezones) | Senior full-stack engineer | https://posthog.com

PostHog is open-source product analytics. Graduated YC W20, we were the most popular B2B software HN launch since 2012 [0]. Our GitHub repo [1] has 3.2k stars and a growing and active community. We've raised a very comfortable seed round and are growing quickly. We're 10+ people.

We're looking for a full-stack engineer, someone who knows what a good product should look like. Our stack is Django/React/Redux (Kea -- main contributor works at PostHog too!).

We have a culture of written async communication, lots of individual responsibility and an opportunity to make a huge impact. Being fully remote means we're able to create a team that is truly diverse. We're based all over the world, and the team includes ex data team leads from Uber, former founders and recent grads.

Email me at tim@posthog.com to see if we're a good fit!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22376732 [1] https://github.com/posthog/posthog

(PostHog founder) Yes we do! PostHog gives you full funnel capabilities + ability to see exactly what users dropped out where

PostHog founder here. Only if you split the name ;-)

At PostHog we explicitly allow (paid) side gigs [0], with the basic warning that the day job comes first.

[0] https://posthog.com/handbook/people/side-gigs

PostHog | Remote (Europe/US timezones) | Early full-stack engineer | https://posthog.com

PostHog is open-source product analytics. Graduated YC W20, we were the most popular B2B software HN launch since 2012 [0]. Our GitHub repo [1] has 2.8k stars and a growing and active community. We've raised a very comfortable seed round and are growing quickly.

We're looking for a full-stack engineer, someone who knows what a good product should look like. Our stack is Django/React/Redux (Kea -- main contributor works at PostHog too!).

We have a culture of written async communication, with most of it happening publicly on GitHub (see our repo). Being fully remote means we're able to create a team that is truly diverse. We're based all over the world, and the team includes ex data team leads from Uber, former founders and recent grads.

Email me at tim@posthog.com to see if we're a good fit!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22376732 [1] https://github.com/posthog/posthog

PostHog | Remote (Europe/US timezones) | Early full-stack engineer | https://posthog.com

PostHog is developer-friendly, open-source product analytics. Graduated YC W20, we were the most popular b2b software HN launch since 2012 [0]. Our GitHub repo [1] has 2.1k stars and a growing and active community. We've raised a very comfortable seed round and are growing quickly.

We're looking for a full-stack engineer, someone who knows what a good product should look like, can ship fast and to a high standard. Our stack is Django/React/Redux (Kea -- main contributor works at PostHog).

We have a culture of writing it down (we primarily communicate via GitHub, see our repo) and async. We're based all over the world, and the team includes ex data team leads from Uber, former founders and recent grads.

Email me at tim@posthog.com to see if we're a good fit!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22376732 [1] https://github.com/posthog/posthog

Shameless plug, but PostHog is MIT licensed, open source product analytics [0]. You can use it for super simple pageview analytics and even give all of your clients their own team on one instance.

If you want something more advanced, we're comparable in features to Amplitude or Mixpanel too, but more engineering focussed.

[0] https://github.com/posthog/posthog

PostHog | REMOTE (anywhere) | Dev-ops engineer

PostHog is developer-friendly, open-source product analytics. Graduated YC W20, we were the most popular b2b software HN launch since 2012 [0]. Our GitHub repo [1] has 2k stars and a growing and active community.

We're looking for a dev-ops/backend-y engineer. Someone who's comfortable with k8s, AWS, Google Cloud, helm charts and various databases. We expect this person to contribute to our main product (backend and maybe even a bit of frontend), and help scale PostHog instances to > 10 million events/day. You'll be the third hire.

Our investors include Solomon Hykes (founder Docker) and David Cramer (founder Sentry.io).

Email me at tim@posthog.com to see if we're a good fit!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22376732 [1] https://github.com/posthog/posthog

PostHog | REMOTE | First engineer

PostHog is developer-friendly, open-source product analytics. Graduated YC W20, we were the most popular b2b software HN launch since 2012 [0]. Our GitHub repo [1] has 1.7k stars and a growing and active community.

You'll be the first engineering hire. All of your contributions will be open source. We're remote first and happy to hire anywhere in the world. Looking for strong full-stack engineers. Django + React. Lots of responsibility/opportunity to build this company from scratch with us.

Our investors include Solomon Hykes (founder Docker) and David Cramer (founder Sentry.io).

Email me at tim@posthog.com to see if we're a good fit!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22376732 [1] https://github.com/posthog/posthog

PostHog | REMOTE, London | Full-stack engineer

PostHog is developer-friendly, open-source product analytics. Graduated YC W20, we were the most popular b2b software HN launch since 2012 [0]. Our GitHub repo [1] has 1.7k stars and a growing and active community.

You'll be the first engineering hire. All of your contributions will be open source. We're remote first and happy to hire anywhere in the world. Looking for strong full-stack engineers. We use Django + React. If you're a full-stack engineers who also knows his way around a helm chart that'd be a big +.

Email me at tim@posthog.com to see if we're a good fit :)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22376732 [1] https://github.com/posthog/posthog

I've been shocked how expensive everything here is compared to London. Everything is at least 2x, if not more. Grocery shopping has been a constant "can you BELIEVE toothpaste costs $10?" etc. That does also include rent.

We’d love to do more quick deploy buttons.

We’ve seen 500k events work with the hobby dev dyno and database which is $14/month. Depending on how much data history you want to keep you could upgrade to standard-0 on Heroku or spin up an RDS instance which is cheaper.

For larger volumes of events, we wouldn't recommend using Postgres.

The nice thing about single-tenancy is that in reality lots of users have small enough datasets that scaling isn't a problem. Heap et al have to scale to all of their users combined (as you said, terabytes), we just have to scale to the biggest user. Postgres also allows you to get started very quickly and do lots of queries yourself.

In our docs we explain our thinking more. Postgres is great for the vast majority of use-cases, and we're working hard to optimise those queries. Once users get beyond Postgres, we have integrations with databases that can scale well across many hosts, and we provide services around this to help people size their servers correctly.

Thanks! We really did start committing code on Jan 23rd -- but we had strong views on what a solution should look like as we experienced these problems first hand.

We've already had requests from people to store events into different databases, but I hadn't considered doing it with graphql/JAM. That could be a really nice way of having the storage abstracted from the database.

In terms of feature parity, our goal is basically 100% parity. Anything you can do analytics wise in those tools you should be able to do in PostHog. We're going to try to keep up the same pace we've had for the last 4 weeks.

Apologies! We've made that clearer now.

Fixed :)

Thanks! There's a hidden 'demo' page [0] that you can click around that will create some events. You can also add that URL when you create an action to test out the editor.

[0] https://127.0.0.1:8000/demo

We thought long and hard about this. We spoke to founders of other big OS projects - we think if developers at big companies want to use it, they'll want to use some of the enterprise features and reach out. We’ve already seen that start happening :-)

Thanks so much! It's built on pretty simple/proven technologies: Postgres, Django and React. We've already seen this scale to millions of daily events on basic Heroku dynos. We can swap in other databases if you end up going beyond that.

Hi! If you mean the PostHog code itself, most of it is in the PostHog folder.

If you want to send events from your own backend to PostHog, there's instructions for Ruby/Python/Node/API in the docs[0]

[0] https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/wiki

I built this list whilst researching ideas for my new project, then thought it’d be cool to share it.

I’d love to hear any other favourite articles you have on best practices in this area - you can submit via a pull request or just me know!

I used to work for a wordpress shop. All these other shops we're basically just a one-man show, but the one I worked for was flourishing, with 12 employees. When I asked why, the director explained that they used to only do business development when they didn't had clients, and stopped doing it when they did. The moment they hired a full-time sales manager, whom was doing business development constantly, the business thrived and grew faster than all the other shops.

This is another viewpoint to the same morale in the article...