Whoever made this should submit an application to be in the next YC batch. I have a strong feeling they would get in. :)
The cofounders of Posterous. They don't need YC. They were in YC.
Posterous cofounders create a replacement: Posthaven
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Re: Posterous cofounders create a replacement: Posthaven
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
When I started working on Posterous in 2008, I intended to work on it forever. It didn't work out that way, and I left in January of 2011. It was a venture-funded company by then and we were committed to super-growth, not sustainability. We never started charging for the product. Posthaven is the result of my experience with that. I know the world needs a simple, clean, well-lit, easy place to post. One that doesn't…
On the one hand, you have street cred for building an awesome product which inspires confidence that your next product will be awesome too. I don't doubt it will be awesome. But on the other hand, you did accept VC funding for Posterous (I'm assuming nobody was holding a gun to your head and forced you to do it), and for whatever reason you then left and moved onto other projects. Now you are saying you will never se…
> and you then left and moved onto other projects
And now he wants to work on something like Posterous again. His priorities don't seem so shifty.
Re: Posterous cofounders create a replacement: Posthaven
#63How can anyone believe this will hold true? Especially coming from the founders of Posterous who sold out and then shuttered their service? Was Posterous created to not be sustainable? If so, then Posterous's users were duped from the get go into using something that the founders knew wasn't sustainable and would eventually disappear. That's not a good way to treat users and it surely doesn't inspire confidence in th…
the founders of Posterous who sold out and then shuttered their service Seriously? Just gonna throw 'em under the bus like that? Friends like these.. Its time to stop trotting out this meme that the alternative to an "aquihire" was a sustainable business. Sometimes you've got to fish or cut bait. Ad hominem aside, trust should never be required for a good agreement. PostHaven has made a great start by killing any acq…
> PostHaven has made a great start by killing any acquisition value from Day 1 by making their defining feature a promise never to sell.
Just like OkCupid's intensive, well-researched, data-driven post on why online dating needs to be free scared off Match.com from acquiring them?
Re: Posterous cofounders create a replacement: Posthaven
#64How can anyone believe this will hold true? Especially coming from the founders of Posterous who sold out and then shuttered their service? Was Posterous created to not be sustainable? If so, then Posterous's users were duped from the get go into using something that the founders knew wasn't sustainable and would eventually disappear. That's not a good way to treat users and it surely doesn't inspire confidence in th…
When I started working on Posterous in 2008, I intended to work on it forever. It didn't work out that way, and I left in January of 2011. It was a venture-funded company by then and we were committed to super-growth, not sustainability. We never started charging for the product. Posthaven is the result of my experience with that. I know the world needs a simple, clean, well-lit, easy place to post. One that doesn't…
since you're posting here, you have a grocer's apostrophe on the home page... it's "URLs", not "URL's".
second, can we auto-migrate somehow from a posterous backup - my wife runs a blog on posterous and is really worried that she needs to migrate. if i could tell her that she just now needs to pay $5/month and not rely on me to hack something together w/octopress and github she will be so excited.
Re: Posterous cofounders create a replacement: Posthaven
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
When I started working on Posterous in 2008, I intended to work on it forever. It didn't work out that way, and I left in January of 2011. It was a venture-funded company by then and we were committed to super-growth, not sustainability. We never started charging for the product. Posthaven is the result of my experience with that. I know the world needs a simple, clean, well-lit, easy place to post. One that doesn't…
On the one hand, you have street cred for building an awesome product which inspires confidence that your next product will be awesome too. I don't doubt it will be awesome. But on the other hand, you did accept VC funding for Posterous (I'm assuming nobody was holding a gun to your head and forced you to do it), and for whatever reason you then left and moved onto other projects. Now you are saying you will never se…
Thanks jbail -- I don't want to dig up the past, but the truth of the matter was I didn't agree with my cofounder on the direction of Posterous, but I also wanted to support him in his pursuit of the direction he believed in. It was one of the most painful experiences to have to walk away from my baby.
I think we're put on this earth to create things of great lasting value that are good for others around us. Many things in our lives will change, but I believe this one is a constant guiding light.
Re: Posterous cofounders create a replacement: Posthaven
#66Why are people so cynical? I know garry, and he is one of the most honest and generous people around. I signed up .. posterous was awesome and should live on.
From personal experience, doing a startup is so hard that judging the co-founders without knowing the full context is just wrong.
Re: Posterous cofounders create a replacement: Posthaven
#67Re: Posterous cofounders create a replacement: Posthaven
#68Its an interesting proposition, but fundamentally broken. Lets say you build it (and frankly I think a better course here would have been something based on the app.net model rather than WP Engine model) and its "successful" what does that mean to you? Here is the challenge, there are too many scenarios where you don't want to be. #1) "SPLOGGING" or some random thing becomes the new thing which all the cool kids are…
Thanks for this note. It's very much great advice, and right now we're heads down coding. I've never started a foundation and I have much more reading to do -- but it sounds like the right way to codify our pledge more permanently.
Re: Posterous cofounders create a replacement: Posthaven
#69A sustainable replacement already exists: statically generated website on S3. You own the domain, and there is very little chance that S3 is going away anytime soon.
It will also be cheaper than $5/month.
Re: Posterous cofounders create a replacement: Posthaven
#70Not real impressed that it can't handle a HN load.
We fixed one setting in our HAProxy that was causing an insane bottleneck.
We'd been working on it for a while, but had no idea it would be launching today and should have been more prepared.
Sorry about that. Please give us another shot.