Posterous (YC S08) Takes On TwitPic With New API(techcrunch.com)

35 pointsby rantfoilvor 17 Jahren6 comments

Posterous (YC S08) Takes On TwitPic With New API

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/17/another-contender-emerges-the-posterous-api-is-like-twitpic-on-steroids/

3 comments

sachinagvor 17 Jahren

I love the balls of these guys. And they work really, really hard. I don't know how they're both so productive and have the stuff they do be so polished.

cruxvor 17 Jahren

Normally I'd see somebody coming out and saying 'this is a replacement for X' to be both desperate and a little misguided; desperate because they're putting their (more successful) competitor's name right there in the title, and misguided because by setting yourself up as a X Replacement you quite often both establish yourself in the audience's mind in the exact same space and context as the established service, and also basically communicate: 'You already use X. But you shouldn't. You should stop right now.' Rather than say, 'Look at how cool Y is! You are probably so interested you're going to sign up right now and if you like it, maybe you'll forget about lame old X!'

In Posterous's case, though, they just keep churning out such powerful functionality that the reader ends up agreeing, 'Well hell, why _don't_ I use this?' A look at the official blog just shows you major, polished, easy-to-use feature after MPEtUF.

(But if they don't add Markdown support soon I'm gonna cry.)

vamseevor 17 Jahren

Agree. And Garry is such a nice guy - actually, I use their bookmarklet a lot more. It's quite slick. One of those hidden gems that nobody seems to notice, yet.

unalonevor 17 Jahren

Rainn Wilson likes it. That's big news: http://twitter.com/rainnwilson/status/1529141277

PStamatiouvor 17 Jahren

and then oddly enough sarah silverman ignored his suggestion and began using twitpic: http://twitpic.com/photos/sarahksilverman

wolverianvor 17 Jahren

Tried it, liked it, will use again.