Pain point · Setup & onboarding · Annoyance
Marketing site does not make clear what PostHog actually does
2 source threads · first seen 2020-10 · last seen 2025-09
Summary
A visitor spent several minutes on the PostHog site and still had to ask an LLM to explain what the product does.
- Affects
- prospective user
- Workaround
- Asked an LLM
Evidence
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“I poked at the site for a few minutes, then had to ask an LLM what PostHog actually does”
“PostHog could also be, but I didn't really understand the features as it related to a normal WordPress website”