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Does this mean posterous isn't doing well?

SriniK 16y ago
They are kicking on all cylinders. User adoption is really nice. I guess it could be more of a personal satisfaction and eventual goal.
harscoat 16y ago
While I think he is a great add to YC, maybe also Gary acknowledged Posterous lost the battle vs Tumblr? Anecdote: for our Quantter blog, we chose Posterous first. But then Marco Arment (busy) advisor of us, just told us: sthg like "Posterous?? those guys keep on trashing us (ie Tumblr)". While 1st impression preferring Posterous product, the switch to Tumblr was easy because of Posterous aggressive attempt to "poach" another startup users. That was not good karma.
- swombat 16y ago
  While I think he is a great add to YC, maybe also Gary acknowledged Posterous lost the battle vs Tumblr? Huh, what? What evidence is there that Posterous has lost any battle against Tumblr? Just because you chose Tumblr after being advised by one of the founders of Tumblr doesn't mean Posterous has "lost a battle"...
  - harscoat 16y ago
    Traffic, users, unique visitors?
    - swombat 16y ago
      Evidence? And alexa data is pretty useless, since a large amount of traffic to both tumblr and posterous is not on their home domain.
      - harscoat 16y ago
        if for both Posterous & Tumblr a large portion of the traffic is hidden, all conditions being equal, on Quantcast & Compete Tumblr is way above Posterous.
        swombat 16y ago
        They also have almost a year and a half of headstart...
        rorymarinich 16y ago
        Tumblr's become a youth phenomenon. In high schools and colleges it's everywhere. Posterous is prolific, but it's not omnipresent. And I doubt it will ever become omnipresent, because it doesn't offer enough to differentiate itself from Tumblr and because it's nowhere near sexy enough to capture the vast audience that only cares about things being sexy.
        swombat 16y ago
        I'm not arguing that Tumblr isn't successful or that Tumblr doesn't have more traffic (that would be a stupid argument!). What I am arguing against is this suggestion that somehow Posterous has "lost" and it's time for them to throw in the towel or something. Posterous is a fairly young service that's seen great growth and is, as far as I can tell, going places, and fast. The suggestion that Garry Tan is leaving because Posterous isn't working out is unsubstantiated, and that's what I'm arguing about. This is like pointing at Facebook when they were much smaller than MySpace, showing that such-and-such person just left, and saying it's because Facebook has lost the battle. It hasn't. The battle is still raging, and who will win is definitely up for grabs.
        rorymarinich 16y ago
        That makes sense. Cheers!
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- harscoat 16y ago
  http://blog.posterous.com/hey-tumblr-users-got-comments-want-video-grad http://blog.posterous.com/hey-tumblr-users-got-comments-want...
pg 16y ago
No, actually. Nothing has changed at Posterous. Garry was just feeling burned out.

They are kicking on all cylinders. User adoption is really nice. I guess it could be more of a personal satisfaction and eventual goal.

harscoat 16y ago

While I think he is a great add to YC, maybe also Gary acknowledged Posterous lost the battle vs Tumblr? Anecdote: for our Quantter blog, we chose Posterous first. But then Marco Arment (busy) advisor of us, just told us: sthg like "Posterous?? those guys keep on trashing us (ie Tumblr)". While 1st impression preferring Posterous product, the switch to Tumblr was easy because of Posterous aggressive attempt to "poach" another startup users. That was not good karma.

swombat 16y ago
While I think he is a great add to YC, maybe also Gary acknowledged Posterous lost the battle vs Tumblr? Huh, what? What evidence is there that Posterous has lost any battle against Tumblr? Just because you chose Tumblr after being advised by one of the founders of Tumblr doesn't mean Posterous has "lost a battle"...
- harscoat 16y ago
  Traffic, users, unique visitors?
  - swombat 16y ago
    Evidence? And alexa data is pretty useless, since a large amount of traffic to both tumblr and posterous is not on their home domain.
    - harscoat 16y ago
      if for both Posterous & Tumblr a large portion of the traffic is hidden, all conditions being equal, on Quantcast & Compete Tumblr is way above Posterous.
      - swombat 16y ago
        They also have almost a year and a half of headstart...
        rorymarinich 16y ago
        Tumblr's become a youth phenomenon. In high schools and colleges it's everywhere. Posterous is prolific, but it's not omnipresent. And I doubt it will ever become omnipresent, because it doesn't offer enough to differentiate itself from Tumblr and because it's nowhere near sexy enough to capture the vast audience that only cares about things being sexy.
        swombat 16y ago
        I'm not arguing that Tumblr isn't successful or that Tumblr doesn't have more traffic (that would be a stupid argument!). What I am arguing against is this suggestion that somehow Posterous has "lost" and it's time for them to throw in the towel or something. Posterous is a fairly young service that's seen great growth and is, as far as I can tell, going places, and fast. The suggestion that Garry Tan is leaving because Posterous isn't working out is unsubstantiated, and that's what I'm arguing about. This is like pointing at Facebook when they were much smaller than MySpace, showing that such-and-such person just left, and saying it's because Facebook has lost the battle. It hasn't. The battle is still raging, and who will win is definitely up for grabs.
        rorymarinich 16y ago
        That makes sense. Cheers!
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harscoat 16y ago
http://blog.posterous.com/hey-tumblr-users-got-comments-want-video-grad http://blog.posterous.com/hey-tumblr-users-got-comments-want...

pg 16y ago

No, actually. Nothing has changed at Posterous. Garry was just feeling burned out.