Feature ownership

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Each feature at PostHog has an Engineering owner. This owner is responsible for maintaining the feature (keep the lights on) and championing any efforts to improve it (e.g. by bringing up improvements in sprint planning).

When a bug or feature request comes in, we tag it with the relevant label (see labels below). The owner is responsible for then prioritizing any bug/request that comes in for each feature. This does not mean working on every bug/request, an owner can make the deliberate decision that working on something is not the best thing to work on, but every request should be looked at.

💡 The Team Platform works a bit differently. Each subteam owns certain parts of PostHog. Among other things, this helps reduce any lead time when critical fixes are needed. Please review the Team Platform page for further details.

Feature list

You can also view the list directly in GitHub and filter issues there.

FeatureOwnerLabel
ActionsTeam Product Analyticsfeature/actions
AnnotationsTeam Product Analyticsfeature/annotations
API StructureShared responsibility. Features owned by the relevant Small Team.feature/api-structure
Async migrationsTeam CDPfeature/async-migrations
AuthenticationTeam Infrastructurefeature/authentication
Batch exportsTeam Batch Exportsfeature/batch-exports
BillingTeam Billingfeature/billing
Client libraries and SDKsShared responsibility with features owned by the relevant Small Team, or try #feature-client-libraries. There is an engineer assigned to SDK support on a rotating schedule. Check the (private) pager duty schedulefeature/pipeline
CohortsTeam Feature Flagsfeature/cohorts
CRMTeam CRMfeature/crm
DashboardsTeam Product Analyticsfeature/dashboards
Data ManagementTeam Product Analyticsfeature/data-management
Data VisualizationTeam Product Analyticsfeature/data-visualization
Data PipelinesTeam CDPfeature/pipeline
Data WarehouseTeam Data Warehousefeature/data-warehouse
Error trackingTeam Error Trackingfeature/error-tracking
Sentry integrationTeam Error Trackingfeature/error-tracking
Activity viewTeam Product Analyticsfeature/events
ExperimentationTeam Experimentsfeature/experimentation
Early Access FeaturesTeam Feature Flagsfeature/feature-flags
Feature FlagsTeam Feature Flagsfeature/feature-flags
Group AnalyticsTeam CRMfeature/group-analytics
HogQLTeam Data Warehousefeature/dashboards
HeatmapsTeam Replayfeature/heatmaps
IngestionTeam Ingestionfeature/team-ingestion
InsightsTeam Product Analyticsfeature/insights
Internal Messaging (Email, Notifications)Team Billingfeature/notifications
Live EventsTeam ClickHousefeature/live-events
MessagingTeam Messagingfeature/messaging
Notebooks@daibhinfeature/notebooks
OnboardingTeam Growthfeature/onboarding
Permissions and access controlTeam Billingfeature/permissions
PersonsTeam CDPfeature/persons
Pipeline TransformationsTeam CDPfeature/pipelines
Pipeline DestinationsTeam CDPfeature/cdp
Pipeline SourcesTeam Data Warehousefeature/pipelines
Platform (US + EU)Team Infrastructurefeature/platform
Project Home PageTeam Growthfeature/home
Property FiltersTeam Product Analyticsfeature/filters
Queries as a ServiceTeam Data Warehousefeature/qaas
Quota limitingTeam Billingfeature/quota-limiting
Revenue AnalyticsTeam Revenue Analyticsfeature/revenue-analytics
Revenue Data ManagementTeam Revenue Analyticsfeature/revenue-data-management
ReplayTeam Replayfeature/replay
SecurityTeam Infrastructure though it is every teams job to consider and react to security issuesfeature/security
Self-hostingTeam Infrastructurefeature/self-hosting
Session AnalyticsTeam Web Analyticsfeature/sessions
Settings (personal & project)@benjackwhitefeature/settings
SQL EditorTeam Data Warehousefeature/sql-editor
SSOTeam Billingfeature/sso
SurveysTeam Surveysfeature/surveys
ToolbarTeam Replayfeature/toolbar
Usage reportsTeam Billingfeature/usage-reports
Web AnalyticsTeam Web Analyticsfeature/web-analytics
Webhook delivery serviceTeam CDPfeature/pipelines

Don't just copy other products

Some of the features we are building may exist in other products already. It is fine for us to be inspired by them - there's no need to reinvent the wheel when there is already a standard way our users expect things to work. However, it is not ok for us to say 'let's copy how X does it', or to ship something with the exact same look and feel as another product. This is bad for two reasons:

  • We're highly unlikely to overtake everyone else if we just build the open source version of everything that is already out there.
  • We may expose ourselves to legal risk/challenges from those companies, especially if they can point to a public issue where we have said 'let's copy X'.

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