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Who actually uses these products,
and what made them stay.

Deep persona profiles for the tools that run modern work. Community-validated. Exportable. Open for contribution.

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hotjarAPP-093
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The Hotjar Session Watcher

A product manager, growth marketer, or UX designer at a company of 20–500 people who uses Hotjar to answer questions that quantitative analytics can't. They know their funnel. They know where users drop off. What they don't know is why. Session recordings are how they find out. They've watched hundreds of sessions. They've seen users rage-click on things that aren't buttons, scroll past CTAs without seeing them, and get confused by flows the team thought were obvious. Each one of these is a design decision waiting to happen.

Aha

The checkout conversion rate dropped 2.”

hotjarAPP-144
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The Hotjar UX Researcher

A UX researcher, product designer, or growth PM who uses Hotjar as their window into real user behavior. They watch session recordings to understand confusion, analyze heatmaps to validate layout decisions, and run micro-surveys to capture user sentiment in context. They are the person on the team who says "let me check what users are actually doing" before anyone makes a design decision based on assumptions. They think in user journeys, not funnels.

Aha

The shift was quiet.”

posthogAPP-134
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The PostHog Growth Engineer

A growth engineer, product engineer, or technical PM who uses PostHog as their all-in-one growth stack — analytics, feature flags, A/B tests, session replay. They chose PostHog because they didn't want to stitch together Amplitude, LaunchDarkly, and Hotjar. They think in funnels, retention curves, and statistical significance. They are technical enough to self-serve but product-minded enough to care about the "so what" behind the data.

Aha

It happened mid-workflow — the growth engineer is running an A/B test on the onboarding flow.”

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