PostHog launched on Hacker News in the final weeks of YC
James Hawkins · From Pivot Hell To $1.4 Billion Unicorn · Y Combinator · Dec 10, 2025 · at 3:08
James Hawkins, co-founder and CEO of PostHog, explains PostHog's founding trajectory during Y Combinator to Brad Flora.
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“We started with just open source products analytics on Hacker News. We spent like the last four weeks of the batch desperately trying to get that out of the door. And then we pivot, we iterated, I would say, afterwards, and now we're all cloud-based with multi-products”
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