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I think Posterous mostly succeeded because of its clean design and cool name, not because one can post by email.
by grandalf 16y ago
I think Posterous mostly succeeded because of its clean design and cool name, not because one can post by email.
- alexro 16y agoPlus YC involvement. Post by email feature was the reason to talk about Posterous though
- flubba 16y agoWhich seems like it just gave Posterous publicity. Trendiness + Reinventing the wheel = Success?
- Periodic 16y agoThis was a new feature, a real rework of the blogging platform and not just another blogger or wordpress clone. Innovating on the wheel + Trendiness = Success
- seiji 16y agoKind-of like Tumblr too. Every article seemingly focuses around the trendy, hipster founder and not so much on the site.
- kareemm 16y agothat's because normal readers care about founder stories, not features.
- ComputerGuru 16y agoI'm curious: are you being sarcastic here? I honestly don't care about the founder stories (good for them, sucks for them, end of story). But the articles do really focus on the founders more than features, and people are known to be silly (hence the never-dying market for tabloids).
- iamwil 16y agoThose helped, but no, posting by email was defn a win. You could attach any type of media or put the url of the youtube video in the email, and it'll make it look nice for you. No more embed codes.
- scott_s 16y agoFrom the article, Post-by-email is Posterous' core essence, and the simplicity of that central feature has leaked to all other parts of the service making it an awesome product to use. The author's argument is that the attitude of "email is the simplest way to post to a blog" is part of why the rest of the design is clean.