The Posterous iPhone app, it could have been so great

I use Posterous and I love it, I use also an iPhone (3G) and that one I love too. The iPhone app of Posterous is however a bit of a disappointment, it can only do pictures. It disappointments me because this way the app adds no value at all. I can do more with the email app on the iPhone than I can do with the Posterous app.

Things I would like in the next version so I am more likely to use it:

Not autoposting to everywhere
There is no need for me that all my content is going to everywhere. The current app only supports 'all', I would prefer to select per post I do on Posterous to select to which other channels it should be distributed.

Text
I take pictures every once in a while, however I prefer to use either Flickr or mobypicture for that. Every once in a while I want to share a picture on Posterous and that works fine. However I am more a text guy, I like to put some sentences in a certain sequence and call it a blog. The current app doesn't support that, the horrendous mail app of the iPhone does.

Safari bookmarklet
The tool bookmark (an app for delicious) on the iPhone offers the option for creating a bookmark in Safari that enables you to share a site easily with the app. It would be great for Posterous to do that while browsing some sites on a too little window of your iPhone

Subscriptions
I love to know what the people are posting on Posterous, especially of the blogs I subscribed at. Would be great to be able to take a look in the Posterous app to see what the new updates are in my subscriptions

My Posterous
As a proper web2.0 narcissist I would like to know how things are going at my little at Posterous, views, favorites, but also comments (and to option to reply at those comments) would be really great.

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Aug 31, 2009

Arjan Tupan said...

I like the choose where to autopost function also for the web version of Posterous. By the way, did you send this also to the help guys (help@posterous.com)? They are very responsive, so probably will pick this up very quickly.

Rick Mans said...

Will do that, didn't think about it :).

Sachin Agarwal said...

Thanks for the suggestions. What you aren't realizing is this app isn't called "Posterous" but it's called "PicPosterous". It was designed to do one thing very well: post photos and video to my posterous easily.

Right now the act of shooting photos, organizing photos, and posting photos is 3 separate steps. PicPosterous lets you do that at once. You shoot for an "event" into an album, then move on to another album. The photos are organized and uploaded as you take them. I think there's tons of value there.

We will be adding more autopost control soon. Body text coming soon.

Being able to read and manage your posterous site does not need an iPhone app. It simply needs a mobile specific view of your site, which we hope to have soon.

Some services build iphone apps just for the sake of having iPhone apps. We already post so well via email that it wasn't worth writing a generic app that just posts. Instead, PicPosterous does something unique and interesting. If it's not for you, then keep using email.

Thanks