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🐖🔥 Non-events for introverts #270

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fruitvale opened this issue Jan 8, 2025 · 0 comments
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🐖🔥 Non-events for introverts #270

fruitvale opened this issue Jan 8, 2025 · 0 comments

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When we think of Events and their possibilities for PostHog, I think of some principles/inspiration James passed along to me:

  • Supabase has been wildly successfully with in-person, community-led meetups all around the world
  • Lenny's 'community wisdom' meetups also have fantastic energy
  • How might PostHog pull off the same kind of thing, but the PostHog way?

The opportunity in 'Events' is to create great experiences, build word-of-mouth energy, and to offer genuine value.

I think there are some principles we'll need to keep in mind for this to be truly PostHog:

  • PostHog, principally, hates meetings. Hates the Quick Call. Prefers carrier pigeons to meetings. Wants action-oriented, code-adjacent conversation focused on shipping, more than it wants meetings. An event is nothing but a longer, more inconvenient meeting.
  • PostHog, principally, is by and for introverts. We are remote-first, developer-focused ON PURPOSE. To try to flip the switch and make everybody become extroverts is not gonna happen.

We could certainly just go into them anyway: "in-person events are happening, introversion and preferred culture be damned!" But: What would need to happen for PostHog's "events" to be workable and aligned?

What is an event that is neither virtual, in-person or an event?
In the real world, an asynchronous in-person "event" would be a thing like geocaching: the item is there, and you'll get around to it when you get around it. The experience is yours to have, when you have it. With the people you choose to have it with.

Also, what would the focus need to be?
I've heard "hackathon" mentioned, but I think our current AI-powered prototype world means it's easier than ever to do the BUILDING of a thing. What's hard is the growing-of-the-thing. The turning it from an app, into a business; from a website into something users actually use. (Where PostHog comes in anyway)

What is the preferred medium?
PostHog prefers PRs and GitHub issues to all else.

How might this all come together?
It's like a riddle: what would introverted-but-interesting developers want to do, together, who have already built stuff, and are ready to figure out how to grow their product, that is not in-person or a video call?

(I feel like there may be a lot of interesting directions to take it, but here's where my mind goes).

Answer 1: 🐖🔥 (Hogroast)
It's a bit of a game.
Participants who want to play, tag their own GitHub repo/issue/area with a tag like 🐖🔥. In the spirit of the 'roast me' trend, this invites others to drop by and leave comments, suggestions or PRs towards product improvement and growth.
(Like a good old-fashioned chain letter: if someone leaves a comment for you, the spirit of it is...send it back in return. Give that energy to someone else.)
Participants, in good faith, can add comments, open issues, suggest PRs, in order to help that product achieve its intended future.

I admit, it feels a bit corny and risky. I almost would want to try it by reaching out personally to a handful of non-PH developers to see if they'd be up for trying it out more quietly.

@fruitvale fruitvale changed the title Non-events for introverts 🐖🔥 Non-events for introverts Jan 9, 2025
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