First I must say I really like what you've done with this product and hope you'll give some fight to Quora. One question does come to mind: what if I don't know to whom I should address my question, how can I ask a question that will go out to the whole community?
@n1rc0 Thanks Nir for the nice words! Broadcasting your question to the yes.no community or your followers is an awesome Idea! We would definitely consider it and put it in our roadmap :)
Actually kinda cool, some kind of mixed quora & Reddit only with a specific target market so they can build a dedicated user experience.
Gave it my upvote.
Looks like an interesting mash of Quora and Twitter, by putting some public-social-pressure on a person to answer a question.
How do you plan on overcoming the "mundane" questions valley? Continuously asking similar people similar questions will result in some vanilla answers.
On Quora\AMAs, there's usually something interesting going on to talk about, and the rarity of appearance brings in really good questions.
@eyalyavor Thanks for the feedback Eyal :) We are exactly trying to do that and combine the network effect with traditional Q&A, in a respectful and intelligent way.
You described what works well for Quora, we are offering a different product. The focus is about the person rather than the question, highly interesting questions will be upvoted by the sub-community(audience of that celeb) and surface the most "trending" questions for that celeb - that's our idea of how yes.no should be.
@volodarik Thanks for the feedback Aleksandr :), first of all you are welcome to send me to jonathan@yes.no, who are the interesting people you would like to see on yes.no and I promise to do my 200% to get them onboard for you,
Other than that, you are welcome to ask them a question and share it to your social cycles and audience, inviting them to upvote the question. When we see questions upvoted to a certain amount we are able to recognize it and than realize this celeb interest our audience and than we start operating towards getting the answer also from our side.
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Kudus. This looks neat. I'm a huge @Quora fan and user. But this feels like an interesting twist, with the emphasis on the person instead of the topic. There are certainly people out there whom I'd love to have a one-on-one interview with.
The Welcome To The Crowd Interview angle is the most interesting in my mind. Which makes me think you should choose one direction and focus. On the other and, probably better to leave it to the users to decide. They always do anyway :)
The design is pretty too. HOWEVER, I do wish not all illustrations were of white men. That's very off putting to me.
@darshu Thanks for the honest feedback Daria! If I get you correctly it's about the users shown on the discovery/landing page. The people shown there will vary according to your location, and are simply people who have agreed to participate (regardless of who we have reached out to). That said, we completely agree and are focusing efforts to bring a more diverse set of users to yes.no. Any suggestions for interesting people to recruit would be much appreciated! Would love to get an intro and help them open their page on yes.no, my email is also jonathan@yes.no
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Love this. How do you maintain a steady stream of "heros"?
@ebesser Hey Evan, thanks for the love and support :),
As we are a startup in the begining of our way, we do a lot of manual work of inviting them over and corresponding with them. Most of the hero's we reach out to are positive and joining in very fast actually which is a good sign for us.
In order to make it scalable of course, we encourage users to invite hero's by themselves and ask them questions, upvote them. We built tools to monitor highly upvoted questions - thus indicating us that a certain hero is more desirable by our community than others - and than we charge :) and bring him in.
Things become more scalable like in every startup I think, once you get the initial traction to your community
Looks very cool and promising. Good job. Can totally see myself investing done serious time into this. One concern though; how do you plan to prevent bots from taking over and highjacking discussions? We've seen that happen too often on other social platforms and it is usually a major turn off for the community...
@yonidariel Thanks very much for the support Yoni :),
We have not seen any kind of bot activity yet, we can develop tools that will block these bots when and if they will show up. There are some manual blocks though that are currently taking place to prevent this kind of activity in yes.no. But definitely a good point here thanks :)
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