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by garry 14y ago
Thanks jbail -- I don't want to dig up the past, but the truth of the matter was I didn't agree with my cofounder on the direction of Posterous, but I also wanted to support him in his pursuit of the direction he believed in. It was one of
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by garry 14y ago
I am not here to 'kill' those services. Previously with Posterous we were very aggressive about that. I think people should use the service that is best for them. For some it will be wordpress.com, self-hosted Wordpress, Squarespace, and ot
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by garry 14y ago
This is almost certainly what will come down the road. How else can we make sure Posthaven stays online past our lifetimes?
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by garry 14y ago
I have run many personal servers. They all come and go. They get hacked. I lose interest. The content goes away forever, except if I'm lucky enough for it to get picked up in http://archive.org . Posthaven is like that, but you don't have
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by garry 14y ago
We just fixed a major problem with our HAProxy instance. The floodgates are open and everything is working awesome now. Please come back and give us another chance. We had no idea when Posterous would shut down -- it's been a project Brett
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by garry 14y ago
When I started working on Posterous in 2008, I intended to work on it forever. It didn't work out that way, and I left in January of 2011. It was a venture-funded company by then and we were committed to super-growth, not sustainability. We
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by garry 14y ago
We think the world still needs a Posterous-like blog engine that is simpler to use for everyone else. Posterous got quite complicated after I left, and I think the world needs the simple version again quite a lot.
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by garry 14y ago
That we are. Sorry for the inconvenience. To be honest, we had no word on specifically when Posterous would shut down.
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by garry 14y ago
Please visit https://posthaven.com for now. Brett and I are working on fixing the servers asap.
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by garry 14y ago
It's back. Sorry about that. We're starting over from scratch with a new codebase only recently, and there's infrastructure we still need to build. I scaled Posterous from nothing to tens of millions of uniques with my cofounder Brett, so w
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by garry 14y ago
Like Brad said -- this one is not to be sold. We'll charge money and keep the lights on no matter what. We want to provide this service like a basic utility like water and power, because that's what having a voice on the Internet should be.
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by garry 14y ago
Posthaven. If you liked Posterous, I promise you will like Posthaven. I was one of the cofounders of Posterous and wrote much of the site. Brett joined us as a cofounder and we really enjoyed working on it. The difference this time is that
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Posterous cofounders create a replacement: Posthaven(posthaven.com)
226 points by garry 14y ago|136 comments
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by garry 14y ago
> Giving David Gelernter credit for predicting Dropbox is to show a lack of appreciation for the decisions that made Dropbox great - and better than the army of options that came before it that simply weren't good. I was extra impressed
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by garry 14y ago
I was able to totally remove Babylon from my system after installing it through an IM ad unit. I can't speak for installs from other sources, because I hear what you say is true. But I saw with my own eyes that it didn't happen with IM.
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by garry 14y ago
I installed these things from an Install Monetizer install on my own computer. I uninstalled them. They were all completely uninstallable. None of them broke my browser. IM actually screens out advertisers and publishers who break browsers,
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by garry 14y ago
3. It's included in the EULA of the app itself. They modify the installer. 4. I don't think there is any claim that this can be fixed instantly. 5. This is not for OSS-using libraries -- that's totally cool. Everyone uses open source. What
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by garry 14y ago
Survata is a survey-wall -- meaning you have to answer a survey before you see a given article. They have about 20 publishers signed up, and they're all non-spammy content. Users are all US-based, which can be verified via geo-ip, and there
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Survey says Facebook still in use by young, but Snapchat/Instagram are real(blog.garrytan.com)
95 points by garry 14y ago|52 comments
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by garry 14y ago
Coinbase is run by Brian Armstrong who used to lead anti-fraud at Airbnb. He's a pro.
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by garry 14y ago
In practice, investors are either pretty upstanding, or kind of dirty. Upstanding investors tend to get the pick of the best because the best companies can choose who they want to do business with. Investors downstream tend to try to overre
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by garry 14y ago
7% weekly growth may seem like BS, but it happens. The arbiter of this growth rate is a function of need and reach as PG said. To say it is BS while there is evidence the phenomenon is possible (having experienced it first hand and seeing f
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Meet YC partners and alums at MIT Wednesday 5:30PM(ycombinator.posterous.com)
64 points by garry 14y ago|11 comments
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by garry 14y ago
Having riden mine in traffic, it's actually pretty reasonable to ride in a bike lane. Cars give a wide berth and are usually paying a lot of attention because it's unusual for a skateboarder to be able to ride alongside cars at bike speeds.
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by garry 14y ago
Actually what really blew me away was how much of the app was working and ready to go. Most people who pitch this idea end up not doing much more than some initial planning. Apoorva had the iPhone app written, tens of thousands of items alr
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by garry 14y ago
Edited: The suit claims violation of trademark and trade dress infringement, improper use of IP (apparently the UI) and ironically, unfair competition. While there are similarities between some pages of the design, I find it difficult to be
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How anti-competitive lawsuits by incumbents are killing early stage startups(blog.garrytan.com)
166 points by garry 14y ago|39 comments
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PayDragon (YC S11) raises $1.35M so hungry people can skip lines(pandodaily.com)
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Vayable (YC S12) adds worldwide payments and concierge service(techcrunch.com)
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by garry 14y ago
This is a dangerous example of cargo culting. What is right for Apple is not always right for every startup on the planet.

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