Garry Tan moving on from Posterous and joining YC • Hacker News Board

Re: Garry Tan moving on from Posterous and joining YC

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Post by DaniFong » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 4:28 AM UTC

portman wrote: post #2

This is great. I hope that 2-3 years from now we see large numbers of "designers in residence" at VCs and incubators. See also Jason Putorti's gig (now over) at Bessemer: http://www.bvp.com/team/Jason-Putorti.aspx

I agree. It's very interesting to see. Andressen Horowitz is following a similar model, too.

I'm starting a greentech incubator and intend to have engineers/scientists in residence. A certain kind of person just love the technical issues at hand during the inception of a project.

Re: Garry Tan moving on from Posterous and joining YC

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Post by thesethings » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 5:15 AM UTC

I'm super happy for Garry, but for selfish reasons, I'm bummed out.

I feel like a band i really like was in the studio working on a new album, and a songwriter just left.

I guess i was waiting for another shoe to drop in terms of the realization of the Posterous vision.

Anyway... congrats to Garry. I saw his TWIST interview a while ago, and thought he seemed really nice and had really interesting ideas.

Re: Garry Tan moving on from Posterous and joining YC

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Post by btipling » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 5:17 AM UTC

Does this mean posterous isn't doing well?

Re: Garry Tan moving on from Posterous and joining YC

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Post by hank53 » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 5:39 AM UTC

This is a good move. I think Posterous has plateau

Re: Garry Tan moving on from Posterous and joining YC

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Post by garry » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 6:37 AM UTC

jw84 wrote: post #7

I remember Garry, like me, arrived early at the Y Combinator pre-party. He had long hair, kind of like every other Asian friend I had so I figured he must be really smart. Stanford smart. I shook his hand and he introduced himself as getting an interview slot too. Naturally we conferred and compared notes. Mine was something weird, a scheduling software--we haven't decided yet. His was a photo blog. Well like a photo…

Thanks for the note Jerry. I really appreciate it.

Re: Garry Tan moving on from Posterous and joining YC

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Post by SriniK » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 7:38 AM UTC

btipling wrote: post #13

Does this mean posterous isn't doing well?

They are kicking on all cylinders. User adoption is really nice. I guess it could be more of a personal satisfaction and eventual goal.

Re: Garry Tan moving on from Posterous and joining YC

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Post by ghshephard » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 8:04 AM UTC

jeff18 wrote: post #9

ptn wrote: post #8

Congrats, Garry! Could you please make the arrows here on HN bigger? I keep clicking the wrong one. Thanks.

And 2x bigger than that on the iPad please :)

I would pay money, right now, to be able to get a version of HN that would somehow solve the IOS interaction issues on the iPad/iPhone. It's always an incredibly painful dance to pinch open the screen so I can figure out how to click on the four elements - "Comments" vs "Article" and "Upvote" vs "Downvote" - I'm not sure how it can be fixed, but boy would life be better if it could.

I should track how much time I spend over a month, heck, sometimes over a day, I spend doing that pinch open, pinch open, click dance.

Re: Garry Tan moving on from Posterous and joining YC

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Post by jonasvp » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 8:46 AM UTC

ghshephard wrote: post #17

jeff18 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And 2x bigger than that on the iPad please :)

I would pay money, right now, to be able to get a version of HN that would somehow solve the IOS interaction issues on the iPad/iPhone. It's always an incredibly painful dance to pinch open the screen so I can figure out how to click on the four elements - "Comments" vs "Article" and "Upvote" vs "Downvote" - I'm not sure how it can be fixed, but boy would life be better if it could. I should track how much time I spe…

Have you tried http://ihackernews.com? I use it on my Droid and it works extremely well.

Re: Garry Tan moving on from Posterous and joining YC

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Post by jonathanjaeger » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 8:56 AM UTC

I'm a Posterous user - I personally enjoy the features and layout. I don't necessarily use it for the community aspect, so I can't really compare it to Tumblr in that respect. I have no use for the email function, so I'm glad they incorporated many other aspects that would appeal to me personally.

I was also surprised at how quickly I got a response via a customer service request. Nice.

Congrats to Garry Tan - I always equated him to Posterous since I saw him on This Week in Startups. Hope to hear more about his newest endeavors.

Re: Garry Tan moving on from Posterous and joining YC

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Post by ghshephard » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 10:03 AM UTC

jonasvp wrote: post #18

ghshephard wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would pay money, right now, to be able to get a version of HN that would somehow solve the IOS interaction issues on the iPad/iPhone. It's always an incredibly painful dance to pinch open the screen so I can figure out how to click on the four elements - "Comments" vs "Article" and "Upvote" vs "Downvote" - I'm not sure how it can be fixed, but boy would life be better if it could. I should track how much time I spe…

Have you tried http://ihackernews.com ? I use it on my Droid and it works extremely well.

That's pretty darn close - amazing that I'd never heard of it before. I'll send some feedback - it Doesn't let me upvote on comments, and the UP and Down arrows are still pretty close to each other - but it's worlds better than trying to do it through news.ycombinator.com. Very nicely done.