What is preventing the engineers from getting access to that data? Existing product analytics tools usually don't charge by seats, so if they wanted to look at the data, they should be able to get access to Mixpanel, Amplitude, etc.
Compare that to Posthog's pricing of $25/user/month which incentives you to minimize the number of people at your company that have access to Posthog.
> We had no idea if that hypothesis was correct - that engineers would care. We did a launch HN to find out and got quite a lot of good feedback and growth.
Heap also found a lot of success on HN when they launched: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5424206. While there was a lot of excitement early on, the kind of crowd it attracted wasn't a good demographic to sell to long term.
> We have users doing 5 million events/day on Heroku's cheapest standard tier dyno.
The challenge isn't ingesting the data. Especially with an analytics tool where you can turn off synchronous_commit so ingesting an event doesn't require writing to disk. The bigger challenge is around processing queries that span years of data. Queries get proportionality slower the more data you've collected. A query over 12 months of data is going to be 4x slower than a query over 3 months.