UI Plugins

[macobo]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

I want to add more things to posthog that are more specific to what what my business building but might not be useful for everyone else.

This includes things like:

• Being able to take notes on customer interviews User interviews product #2880
• A metabase/looker-in-posthog product which allows querying our own database Integrate with production databases #1244 and https://posthog.slack.com/archives/CSPHFDZH8/p1610744925024100
• Session recording on Android/iOS apps
• Voice-of-customer segments
• Figma/Intercom/etc integration
• Game about driving tractors

Implementing all of these into the main product has a significant maintenance cost - it bloats the codebase, they might not be useful for all users

Describe the solution you'd like

Allow plugins to extend Posthog visually by adding new icons in the navbar.

Technically, plugins could include a compiled bundle containing a react app we could render into the app.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Build all the things, allow users to toggle things on and off.

Additional context

Thank you for your feature request – we love each and every one!

[mariusandra]

Thanks for writing this out! This is definitely something we want to add! I've alluded to this as "frontend plugins" multiple times in the plugins epic. It also goes in hand-in-hand with the "plugin webhooks" / "api plugins" task, which would allow the UI plugins to store state and/or run more complicated backend operations. For example I can't imagine the "Looker-plugin" to connect to databases if it was just a compiled react component - we need some backend logic there.

There's a lot of cleanup on the core plugin experience still planned for this release and we'll definitely consider tackling UI and API plugins next.

[macobo]

Another datapoint: Customer built out a custom clara.io clone to send data to posthog, we've built out our own NPS plugin. Seems like there is a real need here!

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