Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've learned

Re:Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've lea... by devmor on Friday September 29, 2023 @06:56AM (#37701870)

I’m fairly sure the Twitter portion is because they named their product synonymous to a common social media expression for “share a picture of your (male) genitalia”.

It’s an unfortunate scenario for anyone who had to look at those tweets, I’m sure.

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Re:Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've lea... by __jonas on Friday September 29, 2023 @07:41AM (#37702286)

It's 100% this, the only place I've heard about this thing before seeing it on hn is people making fun of the name.

Then again, I've seen memes about it several times from completely outside of the dev/tech sphere because of this, so maybe in a way it works since it made me look up the company.

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Re:Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've lea... by aeonik on Friday September 29, 2023 @10:22AM (#37704708)

I'm confused, do you mean "PostHog"? I've never heard of this being used that way.

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Re:Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've lea... by birdyrooster on Friday September 29, 2023 @10:38AM (#37704970)

I assume they are converted Muslims who observe the Quran.

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Re:Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've lea... by rideontime on Friday September 29, 2023 @01:04PM (#37707087)

If you search twitter for “post hog,” the very first result is a person sharing a photograph of their erect penis.

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Re:Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've lea... by devmor on Friday September 29, 2023 @02:42PM (#37708490)

Yes, "hog" is slang for penis. Telling someone to "post hog" is a particularly common expression among more... online leftists. A degradation of their character, basically telling them that their opinions are worthless so they had better have a large member to make up for it.

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