This is what startup recruiters actually see when you apply for a job. Warning: it's not pretty. When (good) startups hire, they get a lot of applicants. In the last 12 months, we received over 9,000 applications, or an average of 460 applicants per role. All of these are fed into an applicant tracking system like Ashby, Greenhouse, or Lever. These are designed for speed, not to make you look good. Here's how to maximize your chances of getting an interview – it's not rocket science: 1. Write a short and obviously personalized cover letter 2. Keep your CV simple and up-to-date 3. If you can, get a proper, warm referral
PostHog
Software Development
Product analytics, session replay, feature flags, A/B testing, data warehouse, CDP, surveys. PostHog does that.
About us
At PostHog, we're working to increase the number of successful products in the world. Until now, tools for building products have been fragmented. Product analytics, heatmaps, session recording, feature flags, and A/B testing are all helpful, but no one wants to buy, send data to, and integrate multiple products. PostHog offers these tools (and more) in an integrated, open source platform which can be hosted in either the US or EU. Both versions are SOC2 certified, GDPR-ready, and HIPAA compliant. We started PostHog during Y Combinator's W20 cohort and had the most successful B2B software launch on Hacker News since 2012 - with a product that was just 4 weeks old. With over 100,000 users, we're default alive, growing 97% through word of mouth, and we are in the top 0.01% most popular repos on GitHub.
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https://posthog.com/
External link for PostHog
- Industry
- Software Development
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- San Francisco
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2020
- Specialties
- analytics, open source, product analytics, product, data, and engineering
Products
PostHog
Product Analytics Software
The single platform to analyze, test, observe, and deploy new features. PostHog is 8+ tools in one, featuring product analytics, session replay, feature flags, A/B testing, and more - all seamlessly integrated and open source.
Locations
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San Francisco, US
Employees at PostHog
Updates
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If you’re not into dogfooding, you’re doing life wrong. At PostHog, we dogfood all the time. 🐶 It helps us get fast feedback 🐕 It means we ship a higher-quality product 🐾 And it ensures we maintain customer empathy Dogfooding works especially well for us because we’re our own ideal customer. We build tools for companies that look like ours. It’s an essential part of our development process. This is how we dogfood, with a bunch of examples.
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Traditional sales: 🕵️♂️ Extract more info than a stalker 😴 Give a really generic demo 👩💼 Don’t give a price! Say you’re going to “circle back” 🤑 Hit ‘em with sticker shock 📚 Write a contract longer than War and Peace 🤦♂️ Success?! PostHog sales: 😀 Publish all your pricing and sales process in a public handbook 😃 Give a personalized demo with a tech person 🥹 Start using PostHog, for free, within a week 😭 Choose your own discount 😱 Actual success!
Sales: [Everyone else] vs. PostHog
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PostHog reposted this
Startups ship more per person than big companies – everyone knows this. But how do you retain that advantage as you scale? Our answer is organizing PostHog into small teams (2 to 6 people) – we're currently 47 people and 15 small teams. The golden rules of small teams... 🍕 They need to be genuinely small 2 to 6 people is ideal. More than this and you have a department, which is what we're trying to avoid. Less than two people and, well, you don’t have a team. Think 1-pizza teams, not 2. 🙋 They run themselves Small teams prioritize their own roadmap, talk to customers, run their own sprints, and generally behave like small, autonomous startups. 🧑✈️ They have one leader Team leaders aren't always managers, or the most experienced team member. We prioritize choosing the best person to lead that specific product. Read more about them in James Temperton's newsletter: https://lnkd.in/eGZnkMM9
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PostHog reposted this
Helicone 🧊 is teaming up with PostHog 🦔 to bring your product analytics and LLM observability to one place... and our integration is now publicly available today! 🚀🚀 In classic Helicone style, integrating is as simple as adding one line of code, and all of your Helicone traffic will be sent to PostHog instantaneously. 1. Set your key... `Helicone-Posthog-Key: ph_...` 2. Set your region... (optional) `Helicone-Posthog-Host: ...` 3. Easily bring the following into PostHog... - LLM Cost, Time to first token, Latency - Session and Traces - Feedback + Scoring for evaluations - Properties to segment your data - Prompt versions + Experiment data As a bonus, we also made a fully enriched dashboard so you never have to start with a blank canvas. 📈 This is just the beginning. We’re super excited to be working with PostHog on this, and we can’t wait to see what comes next. Thank you Tim Glaser and Lior Neu-ner for helping us and making this possible! If you’re using this integration, we’d love to know how you’re using it and how we can improve it.
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What’s new in PostHog? 1️⃣ You can now see data ingestion in real-time. If you’ve got a really popular product it might update so quickly it’s unreadable. But that’s a nice problem to have. Try it out! https://lnkd.in/eiB7TvuR 2️⃣ Want to capture user sessions on Android and iOS for free? Join our mobile recording beta right now. Try it out! https://lnkd.in/eUGQyvuV 3️⃣ We’ve teamed up with Helicone again to help LLM teams get their data into PostHog. Find out your LLM costs, how features impact retention, and more. Try it out! https://lnkd.in/edyyMCyM 4️⃣We’ve now got a fully managed reverse proxy that stops you losing data to ad blockers. What are you waiting for? Try! It! Out! https://lnkd.in/eHXgrj_C 👉 Want more new stuff? It’s all on the changelog https://lnkd.in/erhvMypA
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At PostHog, we've written job ads that have received 9,000 applicants in the last 12 months. And, recently, the quality of applicants has gone way, way up. Why? 1) We’re putting a lot more effort into making our job ads interesting and unique 2) We only advertise on our own website. Sorry, LinkedIn A lot of people we interview also say they love our job ads. Which is weird. But nice! Here are some tips for how you can write great job ads. First the obvious ones: 📝 Keep your list of requirements as short as possible ‼️ Explain what the hiring process is 💰 For the love of god, say what the salary is Now some less obvious ones: 👩💻 Get someone who can actually write to write the job ad 🤠 Be genuine, or even weird 🚫 Say who the role is not for
Obvious and non-obvious ways to write great job ads - PostHog
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