I got a free sticker for applying to one of their positions, ended up buying socks too. Used their platform for a few months in my previous company and you can feel they are different when using it. They are awesome.
I like this model of "we get more revenue when our customers get more revenue" rather than "we get more revenue regardless if the customer gets any revenue."
Why? Because competition was cheaper and more people picked the alternative options - as well as self-hosting. The new prices undercut competition and will make it viable again… for the time being. Nobody believes this ‚We felt bad for making too much money‘-crap, aside from Theo.
The tone in this is really awkward. Feels like an infomercial. While I do believe Theo believes what he's saying there's just something very awkward and non compelling
Also the pricing between mixpanel and posthog is almost identical. Mixpanel 10M: $1,176.00 Posthog 10M: $1,080.00. With the yearly option, mixpanel is even cheaper than posthog...
Watched this after the video on the wordpress situation and it made me think of your point about "investors being essential" vs this video. Because being a loss-leader and your prices going up rather than down is something I have seen so many times with lots of software companies the moment they took investments anywhere from seed to series A, B, etc... I checked crunchbase and Posthog has taken 4 rounds of funding for a total of $27.2 million and I couldn't be happier to see that this didn't coincide with the typical SaaS startup route of prices going up, new features being either not in the OSS version at all, or being locked behind enterprise plan licensing, but sadly that makes Posthog the exception, rather than the rule. I suppose not spending all that money on intense marketing and sales would make the investor money last a LOT longer, since they aren't buying market share with that VC money. To circle all the way back to the essential investor comment from the other video, do you think Posthog could make it this far without taking on investor money? How much longer would it take if so?
You should do a tutorial on how to migrate from google analytics to posthug specially about proper integration to inform adsense if that's even possible. Google analytics has become completely unusable trying to encode privacy legislation along with a very complex setup.
@@OG24Chat yes, they do transparently say that they use it to learn and gather information about the user, ending up feeding chat gpt with it, but other do as well, just they also charge you for it 😂
I'm working now in an analytic product for embedeed devices where we're charging 10k for 1M events for SaaS subscription and for enterprise min 150k :D per year
Man, as a dev that doesn't primarily work on web, I'm actually kind of sad that it's mostly limited to web, and doesn't have anything for the languages I work with.
I just wish you could use posthog with party town, the performance gains are too much to ignore. Other providers can be used with partytown but I think the API's Posthog uses prevent it from being possible.
I love what posthog is doind but they are NOT open source. They only have a hobby version available with a lot of stripped features. It is recommended to up to 100 000 events/mo (their free tier on the site is 1 000 000/mo). This is NOT open source
core posthog is licenced under the MIT licence, its 3rd party components are licenced under the original licence provided by its owner. The "ee/" directory is licenced under the Posthog enterprise licence. So your comment is semi-true.
@@martinlesko1521 some parts of posthog are not public at all. For me that functionality (the one that allows posthog to scale) is core. I understand why they made those decisions, but calling that oss is misleading
I haven't used Posthog but Free Google Analytics is a massive pain to use. I still have PTSD from GA4. The basic pre-built stuff is okay and if that's all you ever use then you'll be fine but as soon as you try do something that doesn't fit their pre-built stuff (like custom events), it can be very painful to setup and use. Only thing that was really great about GA4 was their debug mode where you can hook your page or app up to their debug page and watch all the configured events fire in real-time to debug your analytics setup and make sure the right events are firing at the right time. Also, if you decide to use GA4 through Tag Manager, things immediately get twice as complex to setup when using custom events. At this point, analytics becomes an entire job function on it's own - not something you can just setup once and forget about, especially if your app/product/website/pages change very often. We did use Mixpanel at one stage and custom events were an absolute breeze. You send whatever events you want and then configure your graphs in Mixpanel. GA4 with Tag Manager was extremely painful for this.
its probably hooking trap before was too expensive so didnt have much user now with cheap will hook more user and then raise the price as every corps do
Posthog: we are open source! Open source posthog: only allows ONE project. Does anyone know a developer who needs analytics for a SINGLE project?? No dev environment, no side projects, ONE project only. Imagine linux, supabase, mysql, postgres only allowing a single database and a single user. That's not called "open source", that's called "free trial".
Wait, so if I understand correctly what's said in Part 2, when you had 1 event before, if you want to have the same data, you have to use 2 events now ? That invalidates a bit the cost savings.
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Posthog devs are also awesome. I got a discount code on their merch when I submitted a few PRs fixing bugs
That's so cool!
I got a free sticker for applying to one of their positions, ended up buying socks too.
Used their platform for a few months in my previous company and you can feel they are different when using it. They are awesome.
Post-hog clarity hits hard
The most perfect marketing team doesnt exi-
lowering pricing while still keeping them profitable may lead into a huge gain of customers so profits in the end, that's the whole magic!
To be fair, lower profits per unit can sometimes mean higher overall profitability if it increases volume enough.
+ they were literally the most expensive choice
Again, please keep making this "ads" as they're the best way to learn about vetted options as a noobie to the industry.
There's no other person I trust more to talk about sponsors and companies than you. Your transparency is dope
I like this model of "we get more revenue when our customers get more revenue" rather than "we get more revenue regardless if the customer gets any revenue."
cloudflare should take notes...
I usually default to GA, but I’ll certainly consider posthog after this, sounds extremely compelling
Why? Because competition was cheaper and more people picked the alternative options - as well as self-hosting. The new prices undercut competition and will make it viable again… for the time being. Nobody believes this ‚We felt bad for making too much money‘-crap, aside from Theo.
GAMBLING SIMULATOR HAHAHAHAHHAHA
Welp. Guess I'm converting all of my clients.
Gonna take a look...
RIP Mixpanel! You are defeated today.
Even shiling the merch, you do go above and beyond
James’s LinkedIn is also good banter
The tone in this is really awkward. Feels like an infomercial. While I do believe Theo believes what he's saying there's just something very awkward and non compelling
Bingo
Bro is never escaping allegations
well they literally have a theo version of their mascot so its totally not shilling
Also the pricing between mixpanel and posthog is almost identical. Mixpanel 10M: $1,176.00 Posthog 10M: $1,080.00. With the yearly option, mixpanel is even cheaper than posthog...
"They sponsored this video" -Theo
"Why does it sound like an infomercial" - comments
I'd love to see how you use Posthog in production
I must say their homepage is very good designed, I posted their product to my company's slack
Where can I find the stream where you found that vulnerability in Hotjar? I used to work there and I’m quite curious
Microsoft Clarity has unlimited recordings for FREE LOL :D
They added a Theo mode on their blog 😭
Watched this after the video on the wordpress situation and it made me think of your point about "investors being essential" vs this video. Because being a loss-leader and your prices going up rather than down is something I have seen so many times with lots of software companies the moment they took investments anywhere from seed to series A, B, etc...
I checked crunchbase and Posthog has taken 4 rounds of funding for a total of $27.2 million and I couldn't be happier to see that this didn't coincide with the typical SaaS startup route of prices going up, new features being either not in the OSS version at all, or being locked behind enterprise plan licensing, but sadly that makes Posthog the exception, rather than the rule.
I suppose not spending all that money on intense marketing and sales would make the investor money last a LOT longer, since they aren't buying market share with that VC money.
To circle all the way back to the essential investor comment from the other video, do you think Posthog could make it this far without taking on investor money? How much longer would it take if so?
The box art is fire!🔥🔥🔥
You should do a tutorial on how to migrate from google analytics to posthug specially about proper integration to inform adsense if that's even possible. Google analytics has become completely unusable trying to encode privacy legislation along with a very complex setup.
I’m I getting something wrong or have they just skipped the best and even free tool Microsoft clarity for the session reply tool?
You know the saying: when it's free, you are the product.
@@OG24Chat yes, they do transparently say that they use it to learn and gather information about the user, ending up feeding chat gpt with it, but other do as well, just they also charge you for it 😂
I'm working now in an analytic product for embedeed devices where we're charging 10k for 1M events for SaaS subscription and for enterprise min 150k :D per year
That's good news, but the script is much heavier than Plausible (160kB vs 2kB), so I will check them but long term commitment is unlikely..
We need a tutorial on posthog and nextjs
Is it easy to integrate posthog with other tools like grafana or snowflake?
sounds sus bet the terms of service has something dodgy
Maaan, tell me please what lib did they use for their charts on this blog?🙏🙏🙏 especially chart with hotjar prices comparison
Need to start husing it to justify buying the magnificent beige hoodies.
Man, as a dev that doesn't primarily work on web, I'm actually kind of sad that it's mostly limited to web, and doesn't have anything for the languages I work with.
I think I might mess around with posthog now
You don't have to sell it to me, I already use and love it.
Actually might start using posthog after this
damn i love the "PostHog appreciates your privacy as much as the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen"
"... sounds a bit... Cloud-y?" 🤣
Ergo proctor hog my dude? Ergo proctor hog?
Why does every creator always say "they'll leave the links in the description, yet never do?" 😪
I just wish you could use posthog with party town, the performance gains are too much to ignore. Other providers can be used with partytown but I think the API's Posthog uses prevent it from being possible.
Lovely
I love what posthog is doind but they are NOT open source. They only have a hobby version available with a lot of stripped features. It is recommended to up to 100 000 events/mo (their free tier on the site is 1 000 000/mo). This is NOT open source
core posthog is licenced under the MIT licence, its 3rd party components are licenced under the original licence provided by its owner. The "ee/" directory is licenced under the Posthog enterprise licence. So your comment is semi-true.
@@martinlesko1521 some parts of posthog are not public at all. For me that functionality (the one that allows posthog to scale) is core. I understand why they made those decisions, but calling that oss is misleading
Mixpanel gives you 20 million events monthly for free, why are we skipping that fact? :D
Because they do not pay him to advertise it
10:09 watch this apart again
why are we skipping the fact that mixpanel doesn't give you session recordings in free tier?
Hey Theo, can you review Tanstack start?, hope they sponsor you
How does Posthog compare to Free Google Analytics?
I haven't used Posthog but Free Google Analytics is a massive pain to use. I still have PTSD from GA4. The basic pre-built stuff is okay and if that's all you ever use then you'll be fine but as soon as you try do something that doesn't fit their pre-built stuff (like custom events), it can be very painful to setup and use.
Only thing that was really great about GA4 was their debug mode where you can hook your page or app up to their debug page and watch all the configured events fire in real-time to debug your analytics setup and make sure the right events are firing at the right time.
Also, if you decide to use GA4 through Tag Manager, things immediately get twice as complex to setup when using custom events. At this point, analytics becomes an entire job function on it's own - not something you can just setup once and forget about, especially if your app/product/website/pages change very often.
We did use Mixpanel at one stage and custom events were an absolute breeze. You send whatever events you want and then configure your graphs in Mixpanel. GA4 with Tag Manager was extremely painful for this.
its probably hooking trap before was too expensive so didnt have much user now with cheap will hook more user and then raise the price as every corps do
reupload? or maybe I watched on live stream!
1:19 What does he mean by "classic linear template"
Linear is a saas website
look at any company website these days. They all look 99% the same
@@JannesDragon Yeah, I'm kind a sick of it. Everything is just copy paste shadcn/ui or TailwindUI. Even AI generates same style nowadays.
@@JannesDragon You said some words that are true
@@JannesDragon like what?
Posthog: we are open source! Open source posthog: only allows ONE project.
Does anyone know a developer who needs analytics for a SINGLE project?? No dev environment, no side projects, ONE project only.
Imagine linux, supabase, mysql, postgres only allowing a single database and a single user.
That's not called "open source", that's called "free trial".
many z's in this video id
Is he lying now because he’s gotta make money? Because that other video said he’s gotta do stuff that other people do.
Good material ❤
Post...hog?
Is it me or does theo just gaslights half of every sponsored video why he is sponsored by them...
ffs, just say it once and get over it.
oh look it's the mustache guy with cRaZy thumbnails talking about one of his sponsors again
Wait, so if I understand correctly what's said in Part 2, when you had 1 event before, if you want to have the same data, you have to use 2 events now ? That invalidates a bit the cost savings.
Amazing ad! i love it
25 minute ad
Bro, I really feel so bad for you, almost 1k views and 45 likes, it’s so sad 😢
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