[HN Gopher] Our experience moving to SF to do YC
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       Our experience moving to SF to do YC
        
       Author : james_impliu
       Score  : 79 points
       Date   : 2020-02-28 07:37 UTC (15 hours ago)
        
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       | francescow wrote:
       | Amazing article! It sounds like you guys made the right choice to
       | move to SF. Thank you so much for the super kind words about
       | Kyte! The whole Kyte team much appreciated this and we are
       | looking forward to delivering many more cars to your door in the
       | future! :) The best of luck for PostHog!!!
        
       | ultimoo wrote:
       | Nice read! Call me jaded but _walking_ up to twin peaks in the
       | dark? Be careful!
        
         | chrisseaton wrote:
         | Why not walking?
        
         | james_impliu wrote:
         | Hence this handy guide! It turns out you can get down not via
         | the road... although it doesn't appear on Google Maps.
        
         | mandelbrotwurst wrote:
         | I assumed you meant because it's a strenuous walk until I saw
         | "in the dark". Why?
        
       | gavinray wrote:
       | Really cool to see you guys talking about your journey, hope to
       | see you succeed.
       | 
       | I caught Posthog a bit early as it was trending on Git, and sent
       | the repo link out to a few startup + dev groupchats on WhatsApp
       | because I think it complements Metabase incredibly well. The
       | combination of PostHog + Metabase lets you stand up a really
       | powerful free BI and product analytics stack in a few seconds,
       | and these are two areas I see so many early-stage startups
       | faltering on. Not collecting product and usage/user data and
       | using it to gain actionable insights.
       | 
       | Excited to continue following along from the sidelines to see
       | what the future holds for you.
        
         | james_impliu wrote:
         | Thanks - it's really nice to see the community sharing it!
         | 
         | To your point on "in a few seconds"... We're currently trying
         | to build out more libraries as fast as we can so people working
         | on apps in lots of languages can easily integrate it - we've
         | done Python, Ruby, NodeJS, JS, Go and PHP, and an API for the
         | rest. Feature requests for new libraries as issues in the repo
         | (https://github.com/posthog/posthog) very welcome.
        
           | gavinray wrote:
           | The Docker bit (which seems an obvious choice) is what makes
           | it cake.
           | 
           | I just run a few bash commands and deploy PostHog + Metabase
           | for friends on Cloud Run, since it's practically free
           | (2,000,000 requests/mo) and has no operational burden. God
           | bless Serverless Containers & Cloud Run.
           | 
           | Throwing up an open source containerized BI, analytics, and
           | observability/monitoring stack is usually the first thing I
           | do for companies. It's super easy and delivers a ton of
           | value. PostHog fits really well there.
        
       | notlukesky wrote:
       | Did I miss it but where did they move from? A comparison of
       | before and after would have been great.
        
         | fortydegrees wrote:
         | London.
        
           | carterehsmith wrote:
           | London?
        
             | pkrs wrote:
             | Yes, London. You know- Fish, Chips, Cup o' tea, bad food,
             | worse weather, Mary ____ing Poppins, London!
        
       | sbilstein wrote:
       | omg finally a positive post on moving to San Francisco! Sure it
       | has it's problems but the Bay Area is truly lovely in so many
       | ways.
        
       | pw wrote:
       | This mentions their first group office hours. Does YC now do
       | group office hours instead of individual? If they do, I'd hadn't
       | heard about it, and it seems like it could be an important
       | innovation.
        
         | james_impliu wrote:
         | There's a mix, so you can request 1:1 office hours whenever you
         | want to speak to a particular partner. The onus is on you to
         | drive the agenda in these. We tend to use them to talk through
         | what we're doing next. ie after our HN launch we wanted to
         | discuss "we have some momentum, what should we do next".
         | Basically, whenever we've too many ideas and need help being
         | more focussed.
         | 
         | The group ones are a once every two weeks thing. The reason
         | they're cool is that you hear about others raising issues you
         | wouldn't have thought to raise yourself.
        
         | robbiet480 wrote:
         | W18 founder checking in: we did group office hours and loved
         | them!
        
       | catchmeifyoucan wrote:
       | I love the logo - it adds a nice sense of playfulness.
        
       | tschwimmer wrote:
       | This was a really refreshing take on this type of blog post. It
       | came across as genuine and humble. I wish you folks the best of
       | luck on PostHog!
        
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