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The largest group here, 54 people, recommend PostHog and credit its free tier: a million events, session replays and error tracking a month at no cost. 15 praise the AI side — MCP dashboards, self-driving — and 7 find the interface dense and hard to navigate.

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Tone· 112 posts from 101 people· written 27 Oct

How do people feel about PostHog?

54 of the 101 people here recommend PostHog and 26 say they love it, with the free tier the detail they keep naming. The AI side draws 15 people's praise; only 2 walked away.

Recommendation is the biggest group: 54 people use PostHog and point others at it — connect it from the start, name it when someone asks what to use — and credit it with showing what people click and where a funnel leaks. The free tier is the detail they repeat: a million events, five thousand session replays and 100,000 errors a month with no card, and over the limit it "drops data instead of billing u". 26 people are louder: "the AWS of analytics", a product they would use on every project, a lot for $0, plus startup credits worth $50k over twelve months.

15 single out the AI side — plugging the MCP server into Claude or Cursor and describing the dashboard you want, self-driving, the setup wizard — and 8 value session replays for watching users get stuck. Only 2 walked away: one nearly churned over the onboarding, one removed it after a couple of days over privacy.

  • Happy users recommend it59
  • Loves it28
  • Praise for the AI side15
  • Session replays are the draw8
  • Disappointed2
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Gabriel Buzzi@gabrielbuzziv

programa de startup que vale a pena: a posthog dá $50 mil em créditos por 12 meses como aplicar: 1. cria a conta com o email da empresa. gmail e outlook não passam 2. a empresa precisa ter menos de 2 anos e menos de $5M captados 3. entra no plano pay-as-you-go (só cobra o que usar) e coloca limite de gasto 4. preenche o formulário em link 5. aprovou, o crédito entra sozinho, mais uns $12 mil em perks de parceiros lembrando que crédito não cobre as ferramentas de IA deles e se ainda não tem empresa, nem precisa: o free tier é absurdo. 1M de eventos, 5 mil gravações de sessão e 100 mil erros por mês, renovando todo mês sem dado você só tem opinião. onboarding, trial e churn só melhoram quando você enxerga onde o usuário trava

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Pain points· 32 posts from 27 people· written 27 Oct

What do people complain about with PostHog?

The complaint people make most is that the interface is dense and hard to navigate (7 people), then pricing and plan fit (6) and worries about what it collects (4). 3 say the numbers need checking before anyone trusts them.

Density is the top complaint: "the ui is so complicated", a landing page that is overwhelming to browse, information density too high to get into the main flow, and one user who wants to open straight into a default dashboard instead of finding their way. One says the docs are English-only and leaned on ChatGPT screenshots; another stopped learning it.

Pricing comes next: 6 people report hitting usage limits, features gated to Team and Enterprise, and a startup application that came back both approved and rejected. One says "posthog is not made for people with 200 website visitors".

4 worry about what is collected — one removed it after a couple of days because accepting once showed it too much. 3 say charts mixed sites, queried events that were never recorded, or silently corrupted a property. 3 find the visualisation clunky, 2 say custom event schemas are left to them, and 2 say it stops working at scale or in the EU.

  • Overwhelming and hard to navigate8
  • Pricing and plan fit6
  • Numbers you can't trust6
  • Privacy worries4
  • Clunky data visualization3
  • Setup is left to you3
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Ben Kim@benkimbuilds

hey tim! here's a semi-actionable fix. - the level of information density to get into the main flow is very high - i literally want to open posthog and immediately go to a default dashboard that shows all the information i want to see and only that (if there's a way to do this, i think the self-service route is too complicated) hard to act on this because i think it's more of a product philosophy vs a discrete thing to be addressed. I LOVED logsnag's UI and simplicity, to present an example.

Tugrul Guner@Tugrul_Guner

I gave my agent (Hermes) access to PostHog through MCP and asked it to review my dashboard. It found charts mixing different websites and querying event names absent from our recorded data. Apparently, the dashboard needed supervision, and I had appointed myself. I wrote a practical walkthrough using examples from my ModePot projects: set up website tracking, verify events, connect Hermes, and investigate what visitors actually do. Includes copyable prompts and the mistakes worth checking before trusting your charts. What are you connecting Hermes to beyond your codebase?

VI@v1b3_x

We don’t track you. We just work for you. 🥬 Tried PostHog for a couple days. Hit Accept once and suddenly knew way too much. If I don’t even like having that on my own product, why would you. So it’s out of the app. We get paid for the work. That’s all.

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Alternatives· 25 posts· written 27 Oct

What are the alternatives to PostHog?

DataFast is the tool people weigh it against most (5 people), then GA4 (4) and Umami (3); every other comparison is named by one or two people. The DataFast and Umami comparisons come out for PostHog, on free tier and on doing more than a simple visitor counter.

The DataFast comparison is about price per event: "$19/month for 10k events" against someone's 545,000 events for $0, with the caveat that they built their own dashboard on top "because their UI sucks". Others describe dropping DataFast for PostHog, call it a pricier closed-source PostHog, or plan to self-host to skip per-visitor pricing.

Against GA4, people run both or prefer PostHog for publishers; one went back to free Google Analytics and said PostHog would be the advanced tool worth paying for. Umami is "too basic", so people move up or pick per project.

2 eye Cloudflare's flags instead of PostHog's; 2 call PostHog and Amplitude the two standard setups; 2 ask why they would pick DataBuddy over it. Singles: Mixpanel users who never looked back, LogSnag's simpler UI set against its pricing, and one team that copied the approach in-house with ClickHouse and replays.

  • DataFast5
  • GA44
  • Umami3
  • Cloudflare2
  • Amplitude2
  • DataBuddy2
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Ugur@ugurbuilds

I made this dashboard with @posthog + @claudeai I dropped datafast and now collect everything with PostHog. connected it to Claude via MCP, so I can see all my analytics in whatever dashboard design I want. free, more comfortable, and way more flexible.

Peter Edmonds@peteredm0

would love a dive on how amp's feature flags work, and why you decided to build instead of buy? we use posthog right now, but are eyeing cloudflare flags to unify this a bit. also considering workos flags. should we skip that all and just DIY?

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Questions· 20 posts· written 27 Oct

What do people ask about PostHog?

The most asked questions are how far the free plan goes (4) and whether it is easy to set up (4), level with each other; next come whether it is needed on top of Umami (2) and whether to build an analytics system yourself (2).

On the free plan people want to know the size of the event allowance and whether it is per app, per account or per project: one has ten sites with a million events each elsewhere and asks if PostHog offers the same, another asks directly "what's posthog free tier for event ingestion? Is it 1m?" Ease of setup draws the same number of people — "Is it easy to set up?" — alongside people saying they will try it tomorrow.

The Umami question is whether PostHog is "really necessary" once a simple tool is deployed; the build-it-yourself question is whether a custom system is the better route, with one person saying agents can now build full tracking so there is no need for PostHog at all.

The rest are one person each: the status of the Muse connector for a daily metrics update, wiring Sentry and PostHog over MCP to feed a triage agent, which MCP servers can change data without a human click, stopping a daily report pulling stale property data, and whether to trust an app that claims no analytics but ships PostHog events.

  • How far does the free plan go?4
  • Is it easy to set up?4
  • Do I need it over Umami?2
  • Build my own or use PostHog?2
  • Status of the Muse connector?1
  • Can I wire Sentry and PostHog via MCP?1
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Krishna@crazy_krissss

Yes, I do use Gemini 3.8 flash. Switch to your melee weapon when your tokens are reloading, hehe Just finished integrating Hamster.Lottie into Foodvita Next step: going to build the user analytics system, Do you think I should build my own custom user analytics system around my project or use PostHog/similar tools?

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Wishes· 4 posts· written 27 Oct

What do people want from PostHog?

Four people each ask for something different, so no wish has more than one voice: optional modules, project-level alerts, more free credits, and opening straight into a default dashboard.

One lays out a menu of optional modules: a consent banner, replays only after consent, one Slack line per notable visit, a weekly digest, alerts when a form or the collector breaks, AI referral and crawler counts, and enforced retention with a "delete my data" button.

One asks for a project-level alerts feature and beta access, saying insight alerts to Slack are not much use and that building anything automated takes "too much plumbing".

One asks for extra credits after sampling heavily and running past the free limit, while praising the product. One wants PostHog to open into a default dashboard showing only the numbers they care about, because the self-service route to that is too complicated — the same person who called the interface too dense.

With 4 posts from 4 people this is the thinnest part of the conversation, so these are asks named once rather than a trend.

  • Extra optional modules1
  • Project alerts1
  • More free credits1
  • Open on a default dashboard1
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Jakub Dvořák@jakubdvorak_ai

Optional modules: a consent banner, PostHog replay only after consent, one Slack line per notable visit, a weekly digest, alerts when a form or the collector breaks, AI referrals and crawler counts, and enforced retention with a "delete my data" button.

andrew@shellscape

yo @posthog any updates on that project alerts feature? any chance we can get in on the beta for that? insight alerts to slack are mostly useless and require too much plumbing to create any kind of automated process from.

Ben Kim@benkimbuilds

hey tim! here's a semi-actionable fix. - the level of information density to get into the main flow is very high - i literally want to open posthog and immediately go to a default dashboard that shows all the information i want to see and only that (if there's a way to do this, i think the self-service route is too complicated) hard to act on this because i think it's more of a product philosophy vs a discrete thing to be addressed. I LOVED logsnag's UI and simplicity, to present an example.

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How do people talk about PostHog?

The phrases people use most, counted once per person.

  1. 1“session replays”5
  2. 2“free tier”5
  3. 3“feature flags”4
  4. 4“product analytics”4
  5. 5“people drop”3
  6. 6“self host”2
  7. 7“events for free”2
  8. 8“before trusting”2
  9. 9“product analysis”2

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