Launch HN: PostHog (YC W20) – open-source product analytics

James, Tim and Aaron here - we are building a self-hosted, open source Mixpanel/Amplitude style product. The repo is at https://github.com/posthog/posthog and our home page is https://posthog.com/ . After four years of working together, we originally quit our jobs to set up a company focused on tech debt. We didn’t manage to solve that problem, but we learned how important product analytics were in finding users, getting them to try it out, and in understanding which features we needed to focus on to impact users. However, when we installed product analytics, it bothered us how we needed to send our users’ data to 3rd parties. Exporting data from these tools costs $manyK a month, and it felt wrong from a privacy perspective. We designed PostHog to solve these problems. We made PostHog to automatically capture every front-end click, removing the need to add track(‘event’) - it has a toolbar to label important events after they’re captured. That me