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> What does Posterous do that is absolutely unique and useful that wordpress or other blog platform doesn't do? From the top of my head: Intuitive user interfa

by GVRV 16y ago

> What does Posterous do that is absolutely unique and useful that wordpress or other blog platform doesn't do? From the top of my head: Intuitive user interface, awesome iPhone application, vibrant community, ease of usage, works out of the box. It's not aiming for the serious blogger. It's the easiest way to post stuff online. The rationale is most people aren't tech savvy and there are tech savvy people don't care about whether the index should have 8 or 10 posts, whether the date is YMD or DMY. It's for people who want to just post stuff online easily and share it with others.

anamax 16y ago
> It's the easiest way to post stuff online. While posterous is an easy way to post stuff on line, twitter and facebook also have easy ways to post stuff online. tumblr and weheartit's bookmarklets are also easy ways to post stuff online.
arnorhs 16y ago
I'm not a big fan or wordpress, however I have to chime in here. Wordpress has: - intuitive user interface - awesome iphone application(s) - vibrant community (actually much larger than - works out of the box - ease of usage "and ease of usage", intuitive UI and works out of the box are essentially the same "feature" But I agree that posterous is more simple than wordpress, but those arguments don't have anything to do with that.
pavs 16y ago
> From the top of my head: Intuitive user interface, awesome iPhone application, vibrant community, ease of usage, works out of the box. Intuitive, Awesome, Vibrant are all subjective personal opinion/taste. I could perhaps rightfully (based on user-base) argue that wordpress/tumblr has intuitive interface, Awesome iPhone application, bigger and very active community, easy of use and works out the box (which one doesn't work of out of the box?). Whats so unique about these qualities with posterous? >It's not aiming for the serious blogger. It's the easiest way to post stuff online. The rationale is most people aren't tech savvy and there are tech savvy people don't care about whether the index should have 8 or 10 posts, whether the date is YMD or DMY. It's for people who want to just post stuff online easily and share it with others. You repeated exactly what I said. But there are also some serious tech-savvy users also using posterous. Which makes me think that they have some good marketing ideas and got these guys to throw in some blog posts on posterous so that others will think "wow, so and so is using posterous, it must be cool or something. Must be the new fad" Reading my own comments, I feel like I am coming across someone who has something against posterous. But honestly I don't, its just yet another blogging platform and if it wasn't funded by YC we wouldn't see it so often here on HN or even talk about it.

by GVRV 16y ago

anamax 16y ago

> It's the easiest way to post stuff online. While posterous is an easy way to post stuff on line, twitter and facebook also have easy ways to post stuff online. tumblr and weheartit's bookmarklets are also easy ways to post stuff online.

arnorhs 16y ago

I'm not a big fan or wordpress, however I have to chime in here. Wordpress has: - intuitive user interface - awesome iphone application(s) - vibrant community (actually much larger than - works out of the box - ease of usage "and ease of usage", intuitive UI and works out of the box are essentially the same "feature" But I agree that posterous is more simple than wordpress, but those arguments don't have anything to do with that.

pavs 16y ago

> From the top of my head: Intuitive user interface, awesome iPhone application, vibrant community, ease of usage, works out of the box. Intuitive, Awesome, Vibrant are all subjective personal opinion/taste. I could perhaps rightfully (based on user-base) argue that wordpress/tumblr has intuitive interface, Awesome iPhone application, bigger and very active community, easy of use and works out the box (which one doesn't work of out of the box?). Whats so unique about these qualities with posterous? >It's not aiming for the serious blogger. It's the easiest way to post stuff online. The rationale is most people aren't tech savvy and there are tech savvy people don't care about whether the index should have 8 or 10 posts, whether the date is YMD or DMY. It's for people who want to just post stuff online easily and share it with others. You repeated exactly what I said. But there are also some serious tech-savvy users also using posterous. Which makes me think that they have some good marketing ideas and got these guys to throw in some blog posts on posterous so that others will think "wow, so and so is using posterous, it must be cool or something. Must be the new fad" Reading my own comments, I feel like I am coming across someone who has something against posterous. But honestly I don't, its just yet another blogging platform and if it wasn't funded by YC we wouldn't see it so often here on HN or even talk about it.