Posterous (YC summer 08) Beats Tumblr In Simplicity

Thanks for the support from EVERYONE, YC, Hacker News, and all our friends. We're hoping to get better every day, and you guys are such an instrumental part of that.<p>As for the fake posts, we're patching those bugs up as we speak!

/gratz on your release and good luck to Posterous<p>Feedback:<p>1. It's not simpler, engaging a series of emails (if you want to have a Posterous address other than something like xY4.zgBX) is not as easy as 1-click.<p>2. You can post by email to Tumblr — photos too.<p>3. Missing custom CSS, or even option to select a different theme and/or color scheme is a big deficit.<p>4. Engaging in comment threads through email seems more annoying than Jar Jar.

No. Posterous is really cool and I think it will be a big hit, but sending an email is not simpler than using the Tumblr bookmarklet, which makes blogging practically unconscious.

Posterous is a great tool. I don't think Arrington went into enough detail about how well it organizes content you send via email-- you can pretty much send any combination of things, and it automatically turns it into beautifully presented content. The photo viewer for multiple photos, the audio player, etc, are very well thought out.<p>From the few awesome features they have now, it's obvious these guys "get it;" I can't wait to see what they add next.<p>Posterous has replaced my Tumblr.

Really cool, love how it formatted everything- looks phenomenal.<p>Email registration is really awkward, though- I get redirected to Gmail to send a post, then from there to the site to set a account name and password, which I would have done in the beginning with a normal registration process.<p>Seems like it'd be way, way more straightforward to signup with username/password/domain, and then do the first post as email confirmation. IE "Hey, thanks for signing up for Posterous! To confirm your account and make your first post just reply to this email and attach a picture, mp3, video, or text post- we'll format it and it'll look awesome :) Give it a try!"

<i>we’ll give a free TechCrunch Tshirt to the first person who manages to do a fake post on our Posterous blog</i><p>Look's like there are already two fake posts: <a href="http://techcrunch.posterous.com/" rel="nofollow">http://techcrunch.posterous.com/</a> using <a href="http://deadfake.com" rel="nofollow">http://deadfake.com</a>

The nice thing about this application is that if one does not write for a while they can simply email "Where have you been? What's new?" and the user is very likely to hit REPLY. The rest of the story is that your answer is turned into a new post.

Love it: <a href="http://ivankirigin.posterous.com" rel="nofollow">http://ivankirigin.posterous.com</a>

Nice concept, love that it challenges assumptions about the lowest possible barriers to posting.

I don't agree with the comments here and on TechCrunch about it allowing people who don't understand how to blog to create an account. Those same people are pretty unlikely to even have an email account in the first place.

Great concept but missing the most important piece of the puzzle:<p>THEMES!<p>That's what got wordpress it's place.