I had a similar idea with Urgeous: <a href="http://urgeous.com/" rel="nofollow">http://urgeous.com/</a><p>It lets one blog by email, without the necessity of prior login ("no login necessary... or possible").<p>It's not generating much interest but the one consistent advice I got was that people would like to personalize the experience (register their own handle instead of having their posts listed under a number).<p>So I'm working on this feature now.<p>Good luck to you anyway!
This is one of those ideas that I think needs to discover some little nuance to work. Some use-case or utility it can slot into.<p>Context-less web publishing or is something that (IMO) has been tried in various forms and it doesn't seem to build momentum. The thing is, there are fairly easy no-specialized tools for this that a lot of people already use. Google docs & dropbox, for example.<p>The way I could see this taking off is for some sort of culture to arise around it. EG, it could work for 'ask/show HN.' Stuff that's needed for a limited time and for the purpose of a discussion.
Idea is good, execution is a bit shaky.<p>On my first attempt the post appeared and disappeared after I hit Enter in Author field.<p>URL definitely needs to be better. Do what word press does, if possible convert the title to url replacing spaces with hyphens.<p>Remember the Author name in the cookie. Next time I come prefill the author name.<p>Include author name in url like onetimepost.com/{author}/{title}. Great SEO.
While I have long thought there is scope for someone doing "blogging for those who don't want the commitment of a blog", I think your MVP is a bit too MVP.<p>One thing you could do to instantly improve is use better URLs for entries - even something like onetimepost.com/23982/ has to beat what's there now.