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PostHog Open Sourced

https://github.com/PostHog/posthog-foss
53•thatxliner•1h ago

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thatxliner•1h ago
Does anyone know what the context for this is? Because https://github.com/PostHog/posthog exists as well
lfittl•1h ago
My assumption is that its based on that repo but with the "ee/" folder removed, per https://github.com/PostHog/posthog#open-source-vs-paid

Presumably so folks can be sure they're not accidentally pulling in proprietary code.

eightysixfour•1h ago
From the repo you linked:

> This repo is available under the MIT expat license, except for the ee directory (which has its license here) if applicable.

> Need absolutely 100% FOSS? Check out our posthog-foss repository, which is purged of all proprietary code and features.

carimura•1h ago
The PostHog Enterprise license (the “Enterprise License”)
coloneltcb•28m ago
Open* is not Open
drcongo•58m ago
The sheer number of files in the root of that project is making my OCD itch like crazy. That would drive me insane.
threatofrain•53m ago
Very interesting but why would they do this?
khurs•42m ago
So non-posthog employees contribute and they can move faster?
xnorswap•49m ago
The AGENTS.md is interesting, apparently the primary most important principle is, "Avoid em-dashes like the plague".

That's an odd request. I always use my own voice for certain things, such as posting to hacker news, or writing my thoughts on a proposal. But for other things such as writing up a bugfix, if I'm getting an AI to write it, I'd rather not hide the fact I've done so.

In fact I usually go out my way to mark it as AI written, to give a heads up to any human reader so they don't waste their time if they don't want to read it.

edit: I'm not sure why my comment is attracting downvotes, perhaps it's being interpreted as anti-AI. I'm not against AI writing, but there are contexts where people would like to know whether something is AI written or not. I would rather it was well identified than hidden, so people can make their own judgement whether to gain insight into a human writing or whether it's just process they can skim or feed through their own agent.

"Avoid em-dashes" just seems like a crude attempt to avoid AI writing coming across as such.

bachittle•46m ago
...and then scroll down a few lines and you will find tons of em-dashes in the AGENTS.md
madjam002•45m ago
Last time I checked, Posthog self hosted was basically unusable. They have a hobby deployment script which just pulls the latest build from master which varies from “somewhat works” to “completely broken”
cyanydeez•40m ago
we went from batteries not included to BYOAi
geekuillaume•39m ago
Agreed, I tried self-hosting it a couple of month ago and it was impossible. I spent the day on it but the setup process was broken because of a recent change which was made for their cloud offering. Managing both a codebase both adapted to a cloud deployment with a huge amount of users and to a self-hosted way small deployment is very hard and requires a lot of resources. It's hard to justify investing this much time and money in making it work well for a self-hosted setup, and it seems like they stopped doing so.

It's still great to make the code open, but it's not usable anymore for a self-hosted setup.

sskates•14m ago
Would love for you to try Amplitude. We've put a lot of work into making sure the core is usable. We've also started to fix a lot of the most common complaints about our pricing.
solarkraft•40m ago
Congratulations!
mrcwinn•34m ago
It's hard for me to express how much I dislike their marketing website. Sometimes when you have a "cool idea" you should sit with it a moment and then pull back.
sv123•22m ago
I'm a fan of the posthog product but agree with the site. I appreciate the retro styling and all but opening all the windows for everything is disorienting and kinda breaks web navigation that we have all gotten used to for the past 30 years.
shshsjsj•13m ago
wait i don’t see this happening!
ramon156•34m ago
I have a weird memory of PostHog.

I remember applying sometime ago, not really knowing what they did. They then spammed me with marketing mail, now they're open-sourced and had received a (supposedly marketing) job posting?

Granted in this entire history I had no idea what their product was. Seems flakey, but I haven't used it.

gavinray•20m ago
Why would you apply to a job for a company you don't even know what they do?
lucyjojo•15m ago
money?
jaffa2•26m ago
in the youtube video, by 'product' do they mean 'website' ?

I feel I'm missing some basics as to what this can do for me or what problem it solves.

edit so it's like google analytics .

mariusandra•24m ago
um... we've had this posthog-foss repo for years now. No idea why it made front page. This is not news.

Source: I was there

To clarify: PostHog has been MIT licensed since day 1, with the exception of the `ee/` folder. This `posthog-foss` repo is a mirror of the main `posthog` repo with the `ee/` folder removed. We've had it for ages.

gagan2020•23m ago
Looks like they created mess with AI and then open sourced it. I remembered I had to shift from them to metabase because they closed sourced their deployments docker/kubernetes I guess it was 3 years back.

But now AI screwed them over so they come with their own open-source spaghetti.

robbie-c•20m ago
PostHog has always been open source. I'm not sure why this has been shared on HN at all.
jnstrdm05•16m ago
I just recently switched to posthog self hosted and it works fine
heyheyhouhou•12m ago
I used to like their product but now they too many modules and knobs that I find it difficult to understand and navigate.

I think is a bit of product slopification.

timgl•9m ago
founder here, what specifically do you use posthog for that you now find hard to find?
paularmstrong•8m ago
They've been using AI to shove a lot of AI into their product and trying to force everyone to use AI. I really don't understand the why of any of it. The product was working great for what it needs to do. I don't need AI to make guesses about data for me and I especially do not want _yet another product_ trying to write features in my codebase (which is their latest push).

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