Comments on: Another Contender Emerges: Posterous Takes On TwitPic With New API

By: Sachin Agarwal

Sachin Agarwal — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:12:31 +0000

Jenn, this is actually just one small piece of what our company does. We want to be *the* place to post anything. We’ve been focussing on email so far, but also have a great bookmarklet and soon an iPhone app.

We’re the easiest place to share rich media on the web. Try us our and let me know what you think.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:05:56 +0000

There are a lot of other companies that do the same ! Shozu, CellSpin, TwitPic, Lifecast, and many more. Not sure what is new here !

Do folks do any market research before they start a company these days ?

Everyone and their brother now wants to do something on or for twitter

By: hell boy

hell boy — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:14:34 +0000

http://tweetube.com is much easier than posterous.com .. it just is …

By: Jake Abrams

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:32:30 +0000

posterous is just easier. i take a pic on my iphone and email it to post@posterous.com and then it is autoposted to twitter and facebook as well as my posterous blog. as a bonus, its ui/ue is way better than any other twitter photo sharing service. the minute you try posterous you will never look back.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:27:10 +0000

Congrats guys! We recently moved our company blog to the Posterous platform and haven’t looked back. It’s so easy. Let’s hope Tweetdeck or Seesmic think so too.

By: Jeffrey Zephix Muzila

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:49:43 +0000

I just am looking forward to:

iPhone App!!!! PLEASE HURRY!!!
Themes/betterlook on the posterous page
Better facebook connect choices
Better edit/tagging system on posterous
…and maybe a MAC OS app.

Keep up the good work guys!

By: Khang Toh

Khang Toh — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:04:48 +0000

@Sachin Any idea when the IPhone app would be available? Since posting is through email, I’m just curious why you are releasing an IPhone app.

By: Abounding Media

Abounding Media — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:52:26 +0000

I’ve been a big Posterous fan for a while. Their platform (dead-simple, e-mail posting, easy to understand, beautiful output) has big potential for the future. If any of these startups have a chance to become truly mainstream they need broad-ranging appeal to non-techies. Posterous has that.

By: Nischal Shetty

Nischal Shetty — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:11:25 +0000

hehehe.. I’m with you on this Chris!!

By: Mauricio

Mauricio — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:56:52 +0000

This look promising. TwitPic needs to watch their back . So far TwitPic has done a great job though.

By: Brian Hansen

Brian Hansen — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:31:28 +0000

I started using Posterous after hearing about it from @guykawasaki. I was tired of having inappropriate ads next to pictures of my kids on TwitPic. Even though I started to use Posterous for pictures (and I still do) now I have come to use it for my own personal blog. After starting and quickly abandoning multiple blogspot blogs, I found the simplicity of Posterous to be liberating. I no longer get caught up worrying about the design and focus more on sharing stuff that I thing is neat and maybe my opinion every now and then. I also enjoy the ’subscriptions’ and ‘explore’ features of Posterous. I read Posterous blogs completely separately from the rest of my RSS feeds …because they are special …because they are part of my own personal community.

I recommend Posterous to everyone. It’s great to hear that they are taking it slow but still improving the service all the time.

I can also say that both Garry and Sachin have personally responded to support requests that I have made, making their customer service top notch. Thanks guys.

By: Alex Trup

Alex Trup — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:33:11 +0000

This is fast becoming a crowded space that could be wiped out the moment Twitter actually implements pics into Twitter, either themselves or through an acquisition.

By: Aviraj

Aviraj — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 05:59:46 +0000

I’m with you Chris. I’m so, totally with you on this.

By: Anon

Anon — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 05:35:48 +0000

Why not just create a TwitCrunch site?

By: silicon valley dropout

silicon valley dropout — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 04:40:39 +0000

i was against twitpic but now i am all for it. having read the developer tweets he seem like a good fellow . so hopefully twitter buys him out and end this pic race. svd fully behind twitpic in the photo race.

By: Chris Puckett

Chris Puckett — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:10:58 +0000

I am rooting for Twitpic, its a real success story, like Markus Frind. I would love to see the guy end up with some money in his pocket. In this dour economy its reassuring to see things like this happening.

By: David Risner

David Risner — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:53:05 +0000

I like the Posterous lets you have multiple pictures in an email and puts them into a gallery for one Tweet or Facebook update.

I can easily let all of my friends see the pictures I’m taking without worrying if they are on Facebook, Twitter or neither (since they can easily go to the Posterous page).

And the pages are much cleaner on Posterous than on TwitPic.

By: John Turner

John Turner — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:48:12 +0000

You have seed funding (more resources)… twitpic does not… (yet)

By: Gebadia Smith

Gebadia Smith — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:46:57 +0000

Why not just buy twitpic?

By: Garry Tan

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:43:40 +0000

We’re a two-man show. Both of us (Sachin and myself) are designers and engineers, and we run everything on the site, including design, engineering, scaling, sys admin, biz dev, marketing, customer support.

I guess we have twice the resources, arguably.

By: Alex Wilhelm

Alex Wilhelm — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:37:58 +0000

Same here, he had the vision first.; Besides, there is very little revenue potential that I can see, so his low overhead might actually give him a boost.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:18:15 +0000

PUMP N DUMP

By: John Turner

John Turner — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:13:43 +0000

I think TwipPic will continue to be the defacto because it does one thing. Shows pictures in Twitter. It’s dead simple and has a strong foot hold. Sometimes too many features can be a deterrent. The mom watching the Oprah show today will not get Posturous, even though it’s a great service, but will know how to send a picture of her kid to TwitPic.com. That why Twitter is so successful, it does one thing!

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:08:39 +0000

OMFG, The A-List is behind Posterous as the next Twitter.

I almost can’t believe it, but then again I can.

In 2 years every other post on here will be about Posterous. Mike Arrington will make single posts with no text titled “Posterous” and get 1000 replies.

Not because of any technical reason or need for the service, simply because it was “chosen”.

Mark my words. bookmark this comment. It will happen. I can tell.

Our service will be large by then also. But only on technical merit and the force of elite LA developers.

By: Yuri Alkin

Yuri Alkin — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:58:48 +0000

As Twitter goes mainstream his role as a platform becomes more critical, so soon we’ll be seening even more of these developments.

Curiously enough, many TechCruch readers have ablready started using Twitter as their universal ID. Just take a look at the comments.