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PostHog: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog if you want to deploy it yourself and https://posthog.com if you want the SaaS.

I was using Avodocs (https://www.avodocs.com) to produce a privacy policy for our MLOps platform, https://iko.ai, but they didn't have PostHog in the list for the "Analytics" section, and they assumed that doing analytics implied sending user data to a third party site or something.

I tweeted at them and they were lightning fast in reaching out and adding PostHog to the options of the the privacy policy template. It's really cool: https://twitter.com/jugurthahadjar/status/144733750656389120...

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And we can find alternative open-source projects to Posthog here https://www.libhunt.com/PostHog/posthog.

In fact, we can find alternatives to most of the popular GitHub projects on LibHunt. All you need to do is open a GitHub repo and replace "github" with "libhunt" within the URL. Disclosure: LibHunt is a project I work on.

> In fact, we can find alternatives to most of the popular GitHub projects on LibHunt

How does it compare to alternativeto?

LibHunt is focussed on open-source projects only. It's primarily based on common mentions from around the web.

On the other hand, SaaSHub (another project I work on) is a direct competitor to AlternativeTo

We created a one-click deploy for Posthog if you want to kick the tires: https://render.com/docs/deploy-posthog.

More OSS analytics tools here: https://render.com/docs/docker#analytics-and-business-intell...

Side question. Posthog describes an event pipeline. Is there a saas/open source server with event pipelines where you can do add logic to do things, like: send email, notifications, send api call, maybe add custom logic etc. Ive seen things like segment.io, but didn't find a straightforward solution.

Example: - if a user finished three workouts, send this notification. - if a user hasn't done a workout in a week remind them etc.

As far as I know, PostHog uses ClickHouse, Redis, and Kafka among other things.

https://posthog.com/docs/self-host/architecture

From the use cases you're describing, you might want to check out https://customer.io

There is a minimal setup of Posthog with postgres and redis, if I'm not mistaken. The default setup is geared towards large scale deployments.

Edit: The base docker compose is: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/blob/master/docker-compos...

Customer.io seems closest!

Nobody else does this, I have like 100's of transactional use cases: - Trial almost ending - New signup - CC expired - Reminders, confirmations - Workouts affirmation, reminder etc.

etc.

A pain to write a proper rule system and keep overview in own application.

The challenge is not the simple emails / notifications. But to combine it with more complicated rules, and and + time conditinos

I have the events already in the system, would love to transfer them and have a stable UI / where I can add, create pause etc.

PostHog released plugins recently (posthog.com/plugins) - these let you trigger webhooks in other systems based on realtime events that have taken place (as well as exporting/importing data/transformations etc).

You just write a few lines of TypeScript in the platform (avg LOC is something like 80) - see https://posthog.com/docs/plugins/build. There are a bunch prebuilt too.

Disclaimer: I work there

Potentially Mautic, I can’t think of any other open source marketing automation tools.

If you write your data into a data warehouse or clickhouse you could use something like https://hightouch.io/

Regarding PostHog: If am a Startup & still running my beta product, $1500 per month is very expensive for managed service. They should charge it by number of API requests. Then I can start using this and naturally grow into the product. I really do not have bandwidth to self host when I am busy solving core customer problem.

Click the "Cloud" option. Free to 1M events.

I'm not affiliated with PostHog nor am I privy to their internal tradeoffs; I therefore can't comment on how they should charge. However, their self hosting modality is rather straightforward: it's a docker-compose. It takes a few minutes to set up and mostly just works.

We need to include high availability, disaster recovery, managing db, security & other good stuff if we need to run in production. This is where managed services excel. I do not want to do all these if I am in early stage of a startup.

+1 for PostHog!

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