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17 articles in English · sourced from the docs, the handbook and the blog
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PostHog is an open-source platform for building products. It combines product analytics, session replay, feature flags, experiments, error tracking, surveys, and a data warehouse in one tool, so a product engineer can measure a change and ship the next one without moving between vendors. James Hawkins and Tim Glaser founded the company on 23 January 2020, during Y Combinator's W20 batch. The first version reached Hacker News four weeks after they started to write code. PostHog runs as a fully remote company, and it publishes its internal handbook, its pricing, and its roadmap in public.
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Did you know…
- IPO promises. There is a list of these that is brought out at certain moments. You may see. (PostHog lore)
- Marius Andra will train you on Post-it notes if you go to an offsite with him. Success of a good Post-it note posting is in the lift away from the surface – the most important thing is to peel off the Post-it note, as opposed to pulling. (PostHog lore)
- Three finger rule - another Marius invention, if someone holds up three fingers while you're talking, it means you aren't being concise enough. We don't actually use this much as it's predictably awkward and distracting, so ruins any meeting it could have otherwise helped. (PostHog lore)
- When we hit 10,000 GitHub stars, Ian Vanagas read every username on a live stream that took over six hours. (PostHog lore)
- We like to nail things. It's not uncommon to see a GitHub issue titled "Nail [feature name]". Sometimes we'll even assign an absurd version number like "3000". (The codename for the next generation UI of the PostHog app is referred to as PostHog 3000, and other projects have also adopted this naming convention as well.) (PostHog lore)
- James Hawkins once decided to go off piste in a new starters intro of all hands and asked the question “Do you moisturize?” (PostHog lore)
In the news
- We made experiment queries 4x faster using precomputation (4 November 2026)
- Why we're moving our warehouse product off DuckDB (2 November 2026)
- What people are prompting in PostHog AI (30 October 2026)
- Do you even benchmark? How we evaluate agents at scale (with real examples) (28 October 2026)
- Engineers are shipping faster, so we made our CI self-driving to keep up (28 October 2026)
- Queries are 2x faster, but we're making some event properties temporary (27 October 2026)
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