A tale of 5 pivots, thousands of users and $12M. What we learned

• PostHog

  99 17,317 10.0 Python

  🦔 PostHog provides open-source product analytics, session recording, feature flagging and A/B testing that you can self-host.

  

> Along our journey (/series of failed ideas), we got frustrated having to send all our user data to 3rd parties to understand our product usage. It felt wrong and it meant we'd lose a bunch of user data that would have been quite useful. So we built PostHog.

Great write-up, but I wouldn't call PostHog a pivot, but rather focusing on really solving one's own pain-points; often a well-trodden way of finding product-market fit [0].

> There were a load of features we wanted conceptually - but it was when we realized that the strategy was being open source first and foremost that we felt more excited than we ever had before. When that clicked, we knew we'd just fallen in love with this idea. We started building on January 23rd, 2020.

Given 'tis the season of FOSS projects pivoting to non-FOSS licenses; I am interested in PostHog's pivot to from "FOSS alternative to Heap / Amplitude" to "source-available" instead [1] :)

[0] https://archive.is/66opo#selection-118.161-118.162

[1] https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/blob/master/ee/LICENSE*

• posthog-foss

  2 205 10.0 Python

  PostHog FOSS is a read-only mirror of PostHog, with all proprietary code removed. NOTE: This repo is synced automatically from the main PostHog repo. Please raise any issues and PRs there.

  

We do have a completely FOSS version here: https://github.com/posthog/posthog-foss :). The only difference is support for Clickhouse and some advanced permissioning stuff.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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