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I doubt this will go anywhere, but I still enjoyed reading it. The really clever part for me is the way it uses email to do most of the work. In particular: >

I doubt this will go anywhere, but I still enjoyed reading it. The really clever part for me is the way it uses email to do most of the work. In particular: > Q: What if I lose my secret Daft Social email address? > A: If you already sent posts, you should find it in the sent emails folder. Brilliant.

jll29 3y ago
In the past, Posterous was a blogging service that was powered by email, and I loved it. (You could blog using the email body and attached photos were also posted, so Daft Social without the "minimalist" part.) Sadly, it was acquired by Twitter and then shut down. I like that relying on the standard email protocols means you don't need an extra client to post. I wish more services could be powered by email - it is already so old, yet still underestiated as a protocol. PS 1: Now someone just needs to give me back my BlackBerry... PS 2: It's great they also support another standard, RSS. Two features that I would like to see are: (a) subscribe to these RSS feeds as email (for symmetry, so I can read all in my email client if I want to) and (b) two-way interoperability with Mastodon. PS 3: I can see others have pointed out their liking of Posterious below already, so this feature should have a future in some form or another!
- joeross 3y ago
  The Posterous founders started Posthaven after Posterous shut down, and Posthaven – by all appearances essentially a Posterous clone – is still going (and promises at least for now to stay that way): https://www.posthaven.com/features https://www.posthaven.com/features One of those cofounders is probably familiar to YC nerds: https://blog.garrytan.com/about-me https://blog.garrytan.com/about-me
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kevincox 3y ago
I think it would be extra-clever to generate a contact card for the user after sign up. Then they can just import it into their address book. ...of course this relies on the user having vCard set up to open with the address book that they actually use. And it is surprising how broken most user's setups are.
quickthrower2 3y ago
Sort of a cut down mailing lists

jll29 3y ago

In the past, Posterous was a blogging service that was powered by email, and I loved it. (You could blog using the email body and attached photos were also posted, so Daft Social without the "minimalist" part.) Sadly, it was acquired by Twitter and then shut down. I like that relying on the standard email protocols means you don't need an extra client to post. I wish more services could be powered by email - it is already so old, yet still underestiated as a protocol. PS 1: Now someone just needs to give me back my BlackBerry... PS 2: It's great they also support another standard, RSS. Two features that I would like to see are: (a) subscribe to these RSS feeds as email (for symmetry, so I can read all in my email client if I want to) and (b) two-way interoperability with Mastodon. PS 3: I can see others have pointed out their liking of Posterious below already, so this feature should have a future in some form or another!

joeross 3y ago
The Posterous founders started Posthaven after Posterous shut down, and Posthaven – by all appearances essentially a Posterous clone – is still going (and promises at least for now to stay that way): https://www.posthaven.com/features https://www.posthaven.com/features One of those cofounders is probably familiar to YC nerds: https://blog.garrytan.com/about-me https://blog.garrytan.com/about-me

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kevincox 3y ago

I think it would be extra-clever to generate a contact card for the user after sign up. Then they can just import it into their address book. ...of course this relies on the user having vCard set up to open with the address book that they actually use. And it is surprising how broken most user's setups are.

quickthrower2 3y ago

Sort of a cut down mailing lists