[HN Gopher] Our experience moving to SF to do YC ___________________________________________________________________ Our experience moving to SF to do YC Author : james_impliu Score : 79 points Date : 2020-02-28 07:37 UTC (15 hours ago) (HTM) web link (posthog.com) (TXT) w3m dump (posthog.com) | 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! ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-02-28 23:00 UTC)