Blog: How many things can you replace with PostHog

[andyvan-ph]

Strapline

Slightly hacky, informal take on how PostHog replace a bunch of different tools in one

Why should we do it?

This is all about pitching PostHog as a way to save money / show the value for money of PostHog as a platform

Outline

TBC

[andyvan-ph]

Comments and ideas here: https://posthog.slack.com/archives/C02E3BKC78F/p1656596040811519

[andyvan-ph]

Obvious:

• product analytics (mixpanel, amplitude, etc.)
• session recording / heatmaps (hotjar, smartlook, mouseflow)
• feature flags (launch darkly, optimizely, flagsmith)
• experimentation (optimizely, vwo)
• web analytics (Google analytics)

Less obvious:

• customer data platform (segment)
• data warehouse (b/c/ Clickhouse)
• survey / feedback tool (ask nicely,

Crazy stuff (mostly Yakko!):

• A newsletter engine
• A life tracker
• Strava replacement
• A CRM
• Currency fluctuations
• some other weird shit Yakko will dream up, probably

[charlescook-ph]

Dumb idea - would it be fun to do this in the iceberg meme format? (ie. product analytics at the top, Strava replacement at the bottom?)

[andyvan-ph]

Can't see why not. :)

[andyvan-ph]

Bit of a change of plan on this one. Started writing it but it didn't feel right. Going to work these ideas into something else instead.