YCS08· OtherPosterous
Dead simple blogs by email
Founders
Not read from YC yet; the weekly run fills these in.
Same space
Competitors
Closest in what they build, same category.
Adjacent
Overlapping tags, a different niche.
SlashyS25Cursor for EmailShared: emailActive
AgentMailS25Email Inboxes for AI AgentsShared: emailActive
reMailW09Email search for iPhone. Acquired by Google in Feb 2010.Shared: emailAcquired
WaypointW21The email API built for product teamsShared: emailActive
ZaymoW24Interactive email builder for ecommerce brandsShared: emailActive
Also from S08
Batchmates in Summer 2008.
BackTypeS08BackType was an analytics company acquired by Twitter in 2011Acquired
CloudantS08NoSQL Database-aaS. Acquired by IBM in 2014. Now IBM Cloud Data…Acquired
CO2StatsS08Social and environmental web analytics. Acquired in December 2016.Inactive
JustSpottedS08Acquired by Google in 2011Acquired
Poll EverywhereS08Interactive meetings and presentationsActive
About Posterous
Posterous emerged from Y Combinator in the summer of 2008 as an innovative company focused on making blogging simple - as simple as sending an email - and now has more than 15 million monthly users. With the launch of Posterous Spaces, the company is bringing its trademark simplicity to help people share smarter with intuitive privacy controls to share selectively across multiple platforms.
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posterous: questions
Which YC batch was Posterous in?
Posterous was in Y Combinator's Summer 2008 batch (S08).
Is Posterous still active?
Y Combinator lists Posterous as acquired.
Where is Posterous based?
Posterous lists San Francisco, CA, USA as its location on YC's directory.
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