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PostHog retweeted
Jun 12
The PostHog Slack app is one of the biggest changes ever to how we interact with our own product. Here are 8 real ways we use it:
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Profiling performance like "can you look at create_hogql_database's children and see where we are spending the time?" It uses a traces skill we built to get a call tree view, aggregate calls, identify slow traces, and provide an analysis.
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Finding sources of traffic like "where is traffic for /blog/ai-native-hiring coming from?" It queries pageviews broken down by channel type and referring domain then shares the analysis of different sources.
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The PostHog Slack app is one of the biggest changes ever to how we interact with our own product. Here are 8 real ways we use it:
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Investigating issues like "we've had a big spike in 403's to /insights. Why?" It looks at the specific insight linked, handles an error, uses SQL to query the event, finds the spike, identifies the most likely root cause (an access control change), and suggests next steps.
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Shipping quick fixes like "increase the limit for hogflows returned from the hogflows api to 200 for now." It finds the right place to change, makes it in a way that fits the existing code, then tests that it actually works.
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plus Spider-Hog now shoots webs
I was today years old when I noticed @posthog has a hedgehog companion just to prove that analytics doesn't have to be a slog. Max is doing more for my motivation than any dashboard metric. πŸ¦”
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PostHog retweeted
posthog is not a real company 😭
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not a shitpost - just planned Q3 and it was pretty interesting (!) we’re working so hard on getting out the door more of our work on PostHog self driving that for the first time in maybe four years we’re not going to prioritize hitting our revenue targets as an exec team.
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Product analytics and marketing analytics are not the same thing Most founders install Google Analytics on day one and never realize they're measuring traffic, not behavior Here's the difference πŸ‘‡πŸ½ GA4 tells you where people came from... It does not tell you why they left as easily If your onboarding has five steps and users vanish at step three, GA4 shows you a "bounce rate." That number is useless for fixing the leak @posthog tracks business events, not page views. The events that matter are the ones that map to revenue or retention: β†’ signup_completed β†’ onboarding_step_reached β†’ extension_installed β†’ voice_generation_completed β†’ checkout_initiated These are decisions, not impressions. The funnel I actually care about: Landing β†’ Signup β†’ Onboarding Step 3 β†’ Extension Install β†’ First Generated Output β†’ Paid Conversion A funnel tool shows me exactly where people drop. A traffic tool shows me... colors on a map Session replays caught a bug in which no error log flagged... A user on Firefox couldn't install the Chrome extension. Silent failure. They clicked, nothing happened so they left I watched the replay in Posthog. CSP issue in my middleware. Fixed it Without replay, I would never have known Here's how I split my events... Steal the taxonomy: Server (via PostHog Node SDK): - signup, onboarding_progress, extension_install, voice_generation, checkout, churn_signal Client (via PostHog JS): - feature_discovery, time_to_first_value, help_article_viewed Extension (via telemetry API): - platform_detected, injection_success, generation_triggered The free tier is actually free. Not a trial. Not capped at ten events. I run production analytics for multiple apps on the free plan The paid plan costs fractions of a penny per event. The day I outgrow the free tier is the day the business justifies it If your primary analytics tool is built for marketers, you are flying blind as a product builder Switch to an event-based funnel tool & build an instrumentation layer that answers product questions and not traffic questions Your retention curve will thank you πŸ™πŸ½
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My model Fable My Posthog Code My products self-drive Knicks in 5
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I think @posthog officially has built the best onboarding ever! Truly AI first. So seamless! πŸ’–
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No more scrolling through Heatmaps data. Just ask.
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you're all gonna do it via MCP but if you go in-app and have Hedgehog Mode enabled, Max sets on fire every time you type "Heatmaps"
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