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Posterous (YC S08) Goes Bare: Shows Us All Its Stats

42 points by noahkagan 16y ago

ig1 16y ago
http://blog.awesomezombie.com/2010/12/are-posterous-fudging-visitor-statics.html http://blog.awesomezombie.com/2010/12/are-posterous-fudging-... I'm not sure I'd trust statistics put out by Posterous on usage given they still consider counting bot hits as genuine page views an acceptable practice.
- radicaldreamer 16y ago
  This doesn't affect member data we pulled directly from our DB or Quantcast. We're looking into upgrading the public counter in a future update as well.
sdadas 16y ago
all this is lame, show me the money or revenue stream! Posterous is the first one to pop once the bubble bursts. It is nothing but stupidity exemplified!!!!!!!!!!!!!
rokhayakebe 16y ago
I think this company will completely pivot and focus 95% on groups.
- idoh 16y ago
  Can you flesh that out a bit?
  - rokhayakebe 16y ago
    There aren't 20 thousand ways you can monetize a blog network besides ads (which blog owners will hate), themes (which I doubt most people will pay for), and, well I do not know another way. Now what they have created with this group feature is a way for groups to easily communicate and stay in touch. This allows teams to stay in touch without the need to have a wiki, a private wordpress install or any other solutions which just do not work. In my opinion, this is more powerful than Yammer and the likes for the very simple reason that Posterous Groups does not DEMAND web workers (who are already busy with work) to change their behavior to update everyone and stay updated. It all happens from everyone's favorite application, email. So I think Posterous will gradually realize the little tool which now accounts for 20% of new sign ups is something companies will gladly pay for. And guess what? When a new employee shows up, they already have a knowledge base to learn from. I think Posterous is gonna end up going Enterprise.
sparky 16y ago
If anyone from Posterous is around: what feedback channel should I use for small feature requests that someone will actually read and respond to, even with a simple "no, we will never do that." ? I've tried http://forums.posterous.com http://forums.posterous.com , help@posterous.com , and the feedback link in the site's footer; all seem to have disappeared into the ether. Happy to discuss via email.
- johnnyn 16y ago
  I sent you an email.
  - sparky 16y ago
    Thanks!

42 points by noahkagan 16y ago

ig1 16y ago

http://blog.awesomezombie.com/2010/12/are-posterous-fudging-visitor-statics.html http://blog.awesomezombie.com/2010/12/are-posterous-fudging-... I'm not sure I'd trust statistics put out by Posterous on usage given they still consider counting bot hits as genuine page views an acceptable practice.

radicaldreamer 16y ago
This doesn't affect member data we pulled directly from our DB or Quantcast. We're looking into upgrading the public counter in a future update as well.

sdadas 16y ago

all this is lame, show me the money or revenue stream! Posterous is the first one to pop once the bubble bursts. It is nothing but stupidity exemplified!!!!!!!!!!!!!

rokhayakebe 16y ago

I think this company will completely pivot and focus 95% on groups.

idoh 16y ago
Can you flesh that out a bit?
- rokhayakebe 16y ago
  There aren't 20 thousand ways you can monetize a blog network besides ads (which blog owners will hate), themes (which I doubt most people will pay for), and, well I do not know another way. Now what they have created with this group feature is a way for groups to easily communicate and stay in touch. This allows teams to stay in touch without the need to have a wiki, a private wordpress install or any other solutions which just do not work. In my opinion, this is more powerful than Yammer and the likes for the very simple reason that Posterous Groups does not DEMAND web workers (who are already busy with work) to change their behavior to update everyone and stay updated. It all happens from everyone's favorite application, email. So I think Posterous will gradually realize the little tool which now accounts for 20% of new sign ups is something companies will gladly pay for. And guess what? When a new employee shows up, they already have a knowledge base to learn from. I think Posterous is gonna end up going Enterprise.

sparky 16y ago

If anyone from Posterous is around: what feedback channel should I use for small feature requests that someone will actually read and respond to, even with a simple "no, we will never do that." ? I've tried http://forums.posterous.com http://forums.posterous.com , help@posterous.com , and the feedback link in the site's footer; all seem to have disappeared into the ether. Happy to discuss via email.

johnnyn 16y ago
I sent you an email.
- sparky 16y ago
  Thanks!