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@Jonovono @yulo_tech anything we can do better?

@yulo_tech Posthog can't even make their own product usable tho

PostHog will destroy Claude Code and Codex The moat they'll have from user behavior data and error logs will for the first time give AI tasks that are actually useful and not slop features or things that don't matter Can't wait to try it

@rachbelaid I obvs disagree but curious why you think this? anything we can do better?

You can say whatever about YC, but it's an amazing GTM incubator! A good example is Posthog: the product is honestly not great compared to Amplitude, but for some reason, most early-stage companies use it.

@jamespotter @GregRay42 I just had a quick look at the support ticket from March (25919), looks like we ended up solving it for you at the time anyway (and you seemed happy). anything else that went wrong?

@timgl @GregRay42 Ah fair enough! I'll stop throwing shade in public then - bit unfair of me perhaps given the time that has elapsed

I'm paying $180/mo for Mixpanel but I completely stopped using the UI, I just ask Claude questions or get it to render charts and funnels on-the-fly. They only retain your data for 2 years unless you sign an enterprise deal. It makes less and less sense to use these platforms. I feel if someone builds a rock solid API-first analytics service with a compatibility layer for the Mixpanel/Amplitude ingest libraries, that would do quite well.

@thericebowlgirl bro, what can we do better

Bro, posthog has to be the ugliest product alive

@DanBerger_ @luke_pighetti what can we do better? and have you used posthog AI?

@luke_pighetti I agree. Posthog is a vibe coded dumpster fire. I wish it weren’t but it is. It’s virtually impossible to get useful and actionable insights.

one of my biggest mistakes building mobile apps is not spending enough time in the app store analytics section. i’m finding so many actionable signals there that i completely missed in posthog

@jamespotter @GregRay42 honestly we’ve invested a ton on quality in the last year and it’s gotten way better, you should give us another try! i’ll have a look at the tickets

@timgl @GregRay42 A year or so ago. It was a horror show 😅 If you go look up the support tickets from me at the time you'll see what I mean

@whereischarly @djkesu1 we thought the tabs would make posthog feel more powerful/useful to do real work in but sounds like the feedback is the opposite!

@whereischarly @djkesu1 got it, appreciate that feedback

PostHog's built-in tabs system is the worst, and their docs, living inside a fake browser in a browser, are unusable

@y_molodtsov @whereischarly can you describe what you find weird about it? the tabs?

@timgl @whereischarly I mean the web app, yes.

@jad_jerdy @whereischarly appreciate the feedback!

I use it everyday! Love the product and still think it’s crucial to my app. The performance has greatly improved recently. But the UI and the overall experience just feels slow most of the time and this hinders usability. I usually find joy building dashboards and analyzing data but I’ve resorted to letting my agent do most of the interfacing with Posthog because I struggle with alot of the tasks and prefer to use all the cool features while staying away from the UI. Tl;dr: UI/UX feels heavy and like a chore to use for me giving me the illusion the product is bloated and slow. Hope that helps and kudos for listening!

@djkesu1 @whereischarly what specifically did you struggle with?

@whereischarly We had to embed PostHog data on our internal dashboard to make it make sense

@y_molodtsov @whereischarly do you mean the website or the app?

@whereischarly Yep, I like the app but not this weird UI. It's fine for a commemorative landing page but not your entire app. Thankfully I can just use an agent to report things to me now.

@jad_jerdy @whereischarly have you used it recently? what specifically can we do better?

@whereischarly Posthog is useful but its most bloated slow software I’ve used in the last couple of years. Design tax is real

@theGoldIngot @whereischarly can you link the PE? i’ll look into it

I used to love PostHog for replays, but we recently switched to Mixpanel Replay. Final straw: the SDK started acting up in one of our SPAs. We dug through our setup, checked the docs, and couldn't figure out what we were doing wrong. Then we found a comment from 3 years ago describing the exact same bug. PostHog said it was fixed and that the docs PR just hadn't been merged yet. Three years later, the PR is still open. Ridiculous.

@jamespotter @GregRay42 any feedback? and when did you last use PostHog?

@GregRay42 Buggy as hell

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@vectorpunks @BenLeaPH @posthog Of all the emails that this attacker sent, only 0.04% had existing PostHog accounts and there are no other signs of a breach, so I can confirm that your email address being hit here was a coincidence we're working on fixing the abuse path. sorry!

@BenLeaPH @posthog How was my email address leaked to them?? Granted this is not the only phishing email I get but it seems too much of a coincidence that I’ll start getting phishing emails from posthog right after I signed up. I haven’t created any orgs or really used the account.

Looks like @posthog has been hacked. Signed up for an account few days ago and now getting phishing emails

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