@nird Thanks so much for the nice words :)
Live Q&A sessions are, as implied by the name, only sessions. This means they are one-time events, and therefore most interested parties will likely not be able to participate. yes.no allows continuous interaction through the network, which itself takes some of the burden off the answerers, who are free to answer their audience’s questions as and when they want to.
Guys, well done!
I'm using Wiselike in the last couple of weeks and it seems more easy to use. Just one thing - anyway you can support questions by SMS? It'll be amazing :)
@mhrnik Thanks a lot for the nice words Mihir :),
It's my pleasure to share the knowledge I learned so far, sometimes all you have to do is ask people to join, perseverance of course helps. When you get an initial traction, it becomes easier to get more hero's to join. Would love to help you also in person with your startup if you need with ideas and strategies to do that, contact me: jonathan@yes.no
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Really appreciate this effort. Think this is a great way to create some learning moments.
I've seen Reddit's AMA become more and more geared towards corporate promotions. Over time as you grow, how will you avoid this and keep the heroes incentivized to answer?
@kkahn23 Thanks Kevin for your kind words. We'd like to avoid bending our vision and dream for short term financial revenues. Hence, we consider alternatives such as allowing 'heroes' special asking permissions.
@yosit Hey Yosi, thanks for the feedback! Twitter and Facebook are both wonderful platforms, but they are a lot more general than yes.no, which is designed specifically for Q&A interactions. This means that content does not get “swallowed” in the same way. In yes.no , questions and answers live together, on a specific user’s profile, are categorized by tags, and are easily searchable. Furthermore, twitter is a very “in the moment” network, and that means that as time goes on, your tweet becomes less and less relevant. This is simply not the case on yes.no, where publishing control lives with the answerer, and users are encouraged to take their time and respond when they’re ready.
Congrats on the launch, this looks very promising! :) However, in what way is this concept different to the 'Sessions' that are now held frequently on @Quora, or simply asking someone on Twitter?
@cfjwilliamson@quora Hey Charles, thanks for the question! In regards to Twitter you can see the answer I just wrote to Yosi above,
About Quora, you could look Assaf our CEO's words above:
"We focus on the person, rather than the question. Sites like Quora help you find the best answer to your question, by sharing it with the community. On yes.no however, we want to connect you with a specific person that you have a question for. So you can ask your questions to a professor, or your favorite actor, or an entrepreneurship guru, and get authentic answers.
- Time is no object. Many popular AMA services (like Reddit's) have been providing a platform for interesting people and their fans to connect through Q&A during one-off events, which don't provide an opportunity for continuous dialogue. On yes.no, users create profiles that they can come back to as and when they feel like it, just as they would on other social networking sites. "
Looks like a cool platform!
Twitter integration would be cool (auto-follow people I follow on twitter).
Also - the "Discover" and all the suggested profiles are mostly from the entrepreneur/CEO oriented tech scene, and I wish there was a more famous Developers/Designers/People-who-actually-build stuff scene available for asking questions, otherwise it is of little use to me.
@theyonibomber Hey Yoni, thanks for the feedback! Developing such "virality-enhancing features" is definable on our roadmap. In order, not to get biased with allegadley high traffic that can make us "blind" we prefer to focus on creating real value for users in a smaller scale. When we feel like we got this and made a good-enough product we would add further traffic-enhancing features like so, but agreed it is a very important feature.
For the second part of your question: first of all, for me, hearing this feedback is the most essential part of this launch here. We care about what interesting people our users want to see, we are currently working on enhancing the amount and quality of interesting developers and designers and product people on yes.no.
We also encourage you to invite your hero's to join yes.no and start answering questions :) you can make an intro to me and I'll help them in every step of the way to creating their celeb page, welcome to reach me at jonathan@yes.no
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