Volley 2.0

A friendly place for helping others

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A friendly place for helping others

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Launch tags:Charity & Giving•Education•Tech

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Hunter

I've been using Volley for a few weeks now and the way they match people and also fulfill requests is impressive. It's like a personal assistant that helps you get help and help others out whenever you want.

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11yr ago

Domino Spot

@hnshah Agreed. I have totally enjoyed using it myself.

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11yr ago

Maker

Thanks for hunting us @hnshah. Hi everyone 👋I'm one of the founders of Volley. We're building a friendly place for helping others. You can read more about our mission and why we think our work is important here: https://medium.com/about-volley/... In the meantime, we thought fellow Product Hunters would be interested in helping some people with their product recommendation requests: Check it out 👉volley.works/topic/Product%20Recommendations We’d love your feedback and would be happy to answer any questions you guys have! Mike

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11yr ago

Boom video

@mimurchison I'm really liking the new interface 👌. Great job guys!

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11yr ago

Maker

@robjama @mimurchison thanks robleh!

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11yr ago

@mimurchison Congrats Mike! Great to see fellow N36 Alumns doing some incredible things...let's get Volley going in the UK!

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11yr ago

KitCut

@mimurchison This looks awesome! What's the coolest request you've seen so far? Or the most engaging?

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11yr ago

Quo (formerly OpenPhone)

In the 10 months of using Volley I have connected with many amazing people through the platform, learned about new opportunities, received/provided feedback on products and resumes, got interviews, found teammates for Product Hunt Toronto and made new friends. Every time I posted/responded to a request, I didn't expect such a high quality of responses and a very genuine interaction. Also, every time I introduced someone to Volley, I would hear raving reviews about how valuable the product has been. Great job, Volley team and looking forward to using Volley 2.0! Question on the new interface: why did you decide to leave card deck layout?

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11yr ago

Maker

@darynakulya so happy to hear that Daryna! We decided to move away from the one-at-a-time card metaphor because we found that it wasn't the right foundation for supporting the features that Volley members were asking for. We experimented a *lot* with the new design; many different card views and hybrid-card views were tested. Ultimately, we found that a list view made it easiest for people to find the requests they're looking to help with. That being said, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by some of the ways we take this design. Stay tuned!

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11yr ago

What is great about Volley is that it recognizes my need for human-to-human interaction in solving a wide variety of problems; there are so many challenges and questions that can only be addressed by talking to someone with experience. Volley does a beautiful job of hyper-connecting you to a reliable network of incredibly smart and relevant individuals to do this.

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11yr ago

Maker

@myles_lane loving these endorsements! Adding them to our #positivity slack channel :)

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11yr ago

GuruHotel

@myles_lane totally agree, i feel it...

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11yr ago

Very interesting product. Do you guys plan to gain traction with a long tail SEO play like quora? Right now your URL structure seems like a bit of a mess, but I feel like the amount of content that is going to spin out of this with a few tweaks you could be well on your way. I'm in TO if you ever want to chat.

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11yr ago

Maker

@ryanmarr hey Ryan, we definitely intend to make it easy for people to find relevant volley requests no matter where they are on the web. Since we're focused on helping people with very contextual knowledge, one thing that we don't ever intend to do is divorce people's replies from the original request. Would love to meet up in TO :) let's connect over email

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11yr ago

Nervous System Quotient (NSQ)

I’ve been using Volley for a while now and love the team and the product vision – anything that helps foster a pay-it-forward culture and the spirit of giving without an expectation of something in return deserves success imho! @mimurchison I have a couple of quick questions… firstly, I'm curious to know what the breakdown of the volley beta community is by location (how does this impact the experience?) and do you have any plans in the pipeline to expand over here in the UK? And secondly do you have any plans to integrate with Slack? I'm impressed with how @levelsio + the nomadlist team have made their Slack community integral to the product and wondered if you guys have considered using it for similar community building purposes?

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11yr ago

Maker

@jonnym1ller thanks Jonny! Great questions. 1. Re: geographical breakdown: in our closed beta, most of Volley's members were based in Toronto, NYC and SF (in that order). Through this we learned that some requests on Volley are only relevant to a specific geography, and for others, getting replies from someone outside your geography is actually a tremendous asset. Now that Volley is open, we intend to give location filtering capabilities to our members, and are excited to see how it affects both the things people ask for help with and the way they help others. 2. We have no plans to integrate with Slack at this moment but it's a great idea and something we'll consider more. Thanks for pointing me towards what @levelsio is doing! Looks awesome

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11yr ago