One time post, an easy way to blog
onetimepost.comI had a similar idea with Urgeous: http://urgeous.com/
It lets one blog by email, without the necessity of prior login ("no login necessary... or possible").
It's not generating much interest but the one consistent advice I got was that people would like to personalize the experience (register their own handle instead of having their posts listed under a number).
So I'm working on this feature now.
Good luck to you anyway!
That's pretty cool too! I had a less similar idea into which your Urgeous was a to-do feature (and never done...) My idea was WikiBlog (http://wikiblog.jugglethis.net) and was essentially an (optionally) anonymous blogging platform with posts (optionally) left unlocked and editable by others, like a wiki, and hence the name.
It never took off, but I do think there's merit to all these ideas. I always figured the biggest benefit of my concept was what Quora's blogs have just provided - instant audience. Rather than needing to write for months/years without anyone reading, you tag things with topics and people interested in those get your posts in their feed. That is a huge win in my book.
Urgeous seems better thought out. It makes clever use of an interface that most are already familiar with, has a better visual design, and it doesn't put DISQUS ads on your content. I'd rather use this or GitHub Gist.
I sent a test email, nothing happened. I think your idea/site needs explanation. I cannot tell what your site provides.
Normally Urgeous responds with the url of your post. If you still haven't received anything in the next few minutes you can email support@urgeous.com with the same email account and we'll look into it!
Thanks for testing.
Also thanks for the info that it's not clear what the service does; I'll add a simple description.
You should keep it simple: blog via email, or something like that. I also agree that people would want their own username in the URL and the URL itself needs to be descriptive. Unless you're building a throw-away type of blogging system where people can blog anonymously, I think it makes sense to give users the ability to have easy-to-read blog setup.
Okay I see what you're doing. Cool idea. Perhaps you can take over old Posterous users.
This is one of those ideas that I think needs to discover some little nuance to work. Some use-case or utility it can slot into.
Context-less web publishing or is something that (IMO) has been tried in various forms and it doesn't seem to build momentum. The thing is, there are fairly easy no-specialized tools for this that a lot of people already use. Google docs & dropbox, for example.
The way I could see this taking off is for some sort of culture to arise around it. EG, it could work for 'ask/show HN.' Stuff that's needed for a limited time and for the purpose of a discussion.
Idea is good, execution is a bit shaky.
On my first attempt the post appeared and disappeared after I hit Enter in Author field.
URL definitely needs to be better. Do what word press does, if possible convert the title to url replacing spaces with hyphens.
Remember the Author name in the cookie. Next time I come prefill the author name.
Include author name in url like onetimepost.com/{author}/{title}. Great SEO.
Nice feeback. yeah url need a re-shape, and nice advice on the author field.
XSS-Compatible™
While I have long thought there is scope for someone doing "blogging for those who don't want the commitment of a blog", I think your MVP is a bit too MVP.
One thing you could do to instantly improve is use better URLs for entries - even something like onetimepost.com/23982/ has to beat what's there now.
thanks for the feedback, will look into that.
XSS, stored XSS everywhere http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/37206008.jpg
What's a 'tittle'?
Actually, this is a tittle: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tittle
tittle of a the post you want to create ...
It looks like you have both saykou and uokyas usernames? That's frowned upon here.
"title"
Is this any different from what pastebins offer?
having issues. Returning empty post id. http://imgur.com/kRdV7gm
it's either spaces or comments.. http://www.onetimepost.com/viewPost.php?post_id=Nzg=
So how do I read other people's blogs?