Abheek Basu

Product at Posthog via acq of Laudspeaker, YC alum

tweets about building software, and learnings as a founder

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[Abheek Basu @theabeboson]

I’m thrilled to share that Laudspeaker has officially joined PostHog! 🚀

A huge thank you to everyone who’s supported Laudspeaker along the way: our customers who gave us lots of feedback, our investors who believed in us, and the PostHog team for the future!

[Abheek Basu @theabeboson]

PostHog APM (application performance monitoring for the non engineers) is on a roll!

We have our first metrics customers in alpha as of this week, and our logs product is now offering 30 days retention as a new paid option. This has been one of the most frequent customer requests since launch!

[Abheek Basu @theabeboson]

Posthog tracing is officially out of alpha and into beta!

We are already seeing a lot of early usage, and the product works especially well with agents in conjunction with our logs product.

Next up - metrics!

[Abheek Basu @theabeboson]

Posthog traces just got saved views.

stop rebuilding the same filters every time you go debug save the view, jump back to it whenever. smol feature, big quality-of-life improvement

[Abheek Basu @theabeboson]

2. conversions: assign clearer value to a campaign and see if a workflow actually moved a specific metric

[Abheek Basu @theabeboson]

Shipped two of the most requested posthog workflows features this week 🎉

1. email engagement events (opens, clicks, bounces) are now regular posthog events, chart them, build insights, and answer the questions like: did this email actually change what people did in the product?

[Abheek Basu @theabeboson]

@TheRohanVarma This is how we PM at PostHog too!

- No sprint management/grooming

Lots of user interviews, pricing work, customer support, and keeping an eye on metrics

[Abheek Basu @theabeboson]

@LouisKnightWebb @posthog Thanks for the feedback - shared with the team. Working on fixing UX papercuts this sprint.

We don't yet have a trigger to do repeats, like a cron job but its on the roadmap

[james hawkins @james406]

warning: actually non-meme content...

@timgl and I jumped on some quick calls and ended up raising a $70 million series D led by Stripe.

and of course we decided to announce this with the help of our newly created irl hedgehog Max.

see reply for a link to a post on how we’re going to use the $$$, but here’s the tl;dr version:

- we'll build even more products, like messaging, support, CRM, a lot more
- all the tools + your data + Max AI = shareholder value

[Abheek Basu @theabeboson]

@ravishagrwal thank you!

[Abheek Basu @theabeboson]

I’m thrilled to share that Laudspeaker has officially joined PostHog! 🚀

A huge thank you to everyone who’s supported Laudspeaker along the way: our customers who gave us lots of feedback, our investors who believed in us, and the PostHog team for the future!

[Abheek Basu @theabeboson]

@TomHacohen thank you Tom!

[Abheek Basu @theabeboson]

@hulu_support whats the eta on the login fix, this is pretty bad

[Abheek Basu @theabeboson]

@UberEats had one of the worst uber eats experiences this friday, we scheduled an order ahead of time, the food came one and half hours late, and now support is lying about us claiming 48 hours late and refusing to refund, can you please fix this issue? we are uber one members!

[Abheek Basu @theabeboson]

shared my latest post on new UI/UX patterns I've been seeing for gen AI applications: https://t.co/BlSmEkx9NS

[Abheek Basu @theabeboson]

Just a regular park day in NYC

[Abheek Basu @theabeboson]

7. Listening to music while programming may be making me deaf over time

[Abheek Basu @theabeboson]

I recently decided to analyse all the health data I have been collecting over the last three years, and wrote up a post with methods, and more conclusions on my substack "The Health Effects of Being a YC Founder: A 3-Year Data Analysis (Part 1)"

[Abheek Basu @theabeboson]

6. Moving to New York means I walk a lot more on the weekends

[Abheek Basu @theabeboson]

7. Listening to music while programming may be making me deaf over time

[Abheek Basu @theabeboson]

5. So what did I learn:

My Sleep Consistency was/is crap