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Ask HN: What's the best blogging platform for startup companies

6 points by justinksd ↗ HN
We are looking for a blogging platform to announce new features, post updates, code fragments, and anything neato related to our business.

So far looked at: Tumblr and posterous, any others?

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nyellin
Out of the standalone systems, I prefer Wordpress. It is powerful and simple, but it should (ideally) be run on a separate server for security reasons.

We wont be using Wordpress for Freeversation.com; We plan on integrating a Django blogging application into our main codebase, to avoid rewriting Django templates as Wordpress themes.

will_lam
You can't go wrong with any of the blogging platforms, and it really depends on your preferences.

My main allure is simplicity and speed to set up, so I went with Posterous.

beatpanda
I prefer WordPress, it's super easy to install, manage, and run and you get a bunch of free services from WordPress.com even if you host it on your own server.
albahk
Since a blog can be an integral part of your company and the "voice" that people hear I think its worth doing a custom theme and Wordpress install to match your site design and host it on a sub-domain (but on a different server for security reasons, as mentioned in this thread).

If I see a http://webapp.posterous.com blog for a company with the default theme I think "Oh, this is probably another MVP this guy churned out over a weekend".

I've always like http://blog.twitter.com which is a blogger-hosted blog, but with a very nice design.

bo_Olean
Tumblr is quick to work with, except for their downtime sometimes.
codingstaff
We decided to go with Tumblr, Startup is http://www.quoteroller.com. Pretty easy and flexible in terms of customization, but, unfortunately sub-domain hosted. Once we get a bit time I think will move to Wordpress.
profitbaron
If you're going down the hosted route then you should use either Wordpress.com or Posterous. The reason I didn't include Tumblr in this is because, its more of a 'reblogging' type service and is different to what Wordpress/Posterous offer.

However, if you are going down the self hosted route so you can host it at blog.yourdomain.com then I'd again recommend Wordpress since its a great service, and its really easy to work with.