EP 112 - Posthog with Vincent Pavero

The first product we cover in the Session Replay series is PostHog. To learn about it, we invited Vincent Pavero, Co-Founder, CEO at Homeric and Product Coach & Advisor at Vincent.pm. PostHog is the first open source product we are covering on the podcast, which is an interesting point in itself, and we wondered aloud on the show why there aren’t more open source products for product people.

PostHog is not just a Session Replay platform, as it also supports product analytics, surveys, feature flags, A/B testing and more! Vincent loves it for this reason, as he has replaced 7 tools that he used previously by PostHog!

We did focus our discussion on the show on Session Replay, and its strengths in PostHog. This includes the basic features: access and playback of user’s sessions, filter to find sessions, anonymous vs signed in users, skipping inactivity periods, overlay with features, heat map, rich-click detector, a band on the screen to show where they go lowest, sharing and exporting recordings, etc. Being geared mainly to product engineers, PostHog has additional features such as an inspector to see what happens in the browser (front end), and all the code that the browser is interacting with the back end.

Join us as we explore with Vincent:

• How did he get to product
• Reasons to use a product like PostHog, and specifically session replay
• Product analytics that goes beyond session recordings
• The pros and cons of using an open source product in our sector
• Security measures for sensitive data
• Can AI create value in session replay?
• The importance of simplicity and consistency
• PostHog perspective on their role in helping users analyze their product data
• Areas that can be improved in PostHog
• Deep understanding by PostHog of their users, as evident in their website and all documentation materials

• And so much more…

To learn more about PostHog:

• https://posthog.com/

Connect with Vincent:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincentpavero/
• Product coaching website: https://vincent.pm/
• Homeric: https://homeric.ai

Connect with Matt and Moshe on LinkedIn:

• Matt Green
• Moshe Mikanovsky

Note: any views mentioned in the podcast are the sole views of our hosts and guests, and do not represent the products mentioned in any way.

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