Good day hunters - I'm Assaf, the CEO and co-founder of https://yes.no. Thanks for taking the time to check us out - Q&A is what I love, so I'll be available all day for any and all questions...
We're super excited to be launching our crowd interviewing platform on Product Hunt after going live on web, Android and iOS!
*Why?*
Most of us have questions we'd love to be able to ask our heroes (and get answered), but there isn't always a simple way to do so. I myself had a question for a musical hero of mine, Samy Birnbach (Minimal Compact vocalist and lyricist), and I dedicated a lot of time and effort to get my answer. I realized that a lot of people have the same problem, that others would benefit if this interaction had been in the public realm, and that my hero enjoyed engaging in meaningful, respectful Q&A. And thus, https://yes.no was born.
*Who are we?*
We're an 8 person startup, having just launched our web version and gone live on both Google Play and the App Store in 11 languages (with 20 more to come!). We are currently working hard to recruit interesting experts and public figures, with some good results so far! Check out Nobel laureate Alvin E Roth.
*Why are we different?*
- 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.
*How can we improve?*
We currently have a few thousand users, but we are constantly looking to provide a better experience and are still learning how to provide the best value for our users. What do you think we can do to improve https://yes.no?
Always feel free to contact us directly: Assaf Levy, CEO: assaf@yes.no, Jonathan Doron, BizDev: jonathan@yes.no
@samir_doshi@atlantis76 Hey Sam and thanks for the question, it differs from one hero to another but in general we have very good response rate and willingness to use yes.no. Further, we have a nice amount of hero's that are active and answering question on a regular basis.
Hi guys, looks like a great product!!
I think you should consider on allowing users to follow "topics" or categorize.
I can say for myself that i don't know to many people in the "Biz" so don't really know whom to follow and what to look for,
giving the opportunity to follow a topic,category,company etc... (using tags?) may give a better way to start-off.
Way to go!
@elyawp Thanks for the awesome feedback Elya! Category following is definitely something we would love to have, we currently have "Technology", "Business" & "Science" as categories we provide real value of answering professionals and interesting people. We make sure a category is strong enough and has a nice volume of interesting people on before enabling it to be searched. Under these three key categories we also start to add several sub-categories like product for example.
We just recently released an option for people to use tags, which will enable you to follow topics, hopefully in the near future.
The way you currently can find people according to topics is limited to the discovery, we promise to work and make this feature available!
@rotemthegolfer Thanks for the feedback Rotem! The current categories we have are: "Technology", "Business" & " Science", under them there are also a few sub-categories. We make sure a category has enough celeb "presense" before adding them as an option.
What kind of categories would you like to see in yes.no?
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@jodoron Soccer players of course (Messi, Ronaldo, etc), golf players (Rory, Tiger, etc) and more :)
Hi Asaf and Jonathan!
Great product. I've been using it from Beta stage and am a big fan.
Love the fact that I can actually ask people to submit their questions there instead of my email inbox ;)
Who would be your main target audience for this?
@roypovar We love to have you on our site, Roy. Main target audience for now, when launching, is tech/business/science. But soon(!) we want to get out of our 'bubble' and get more public figures, thought leaders and .... celebrities.
Hi guys, great product. The questions provide a more personal perspective on people we know - love it.
One question though - if I ask someone a question, how long until I get an answer?
@guyklr Thanks for the positive vibes and feedback. It depends who you asked, not everyone will be able to answer all the questions they get, and that’s where upvoting comes in. The most popular questions will be self-evident, and will help us bring them to the site, as well as help them decide what to answer first. So get upvoting! By upvoting your freshly asked question you increase the chances for a fast response from your hero.
Other than that, we do our 200% to constantly onboard interesting people on yes.no to answer your questions :).
@guyklr Questions are all about the person being asked, so it differs from one local hero to another.
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First off, congrats on the launch and on getting some great names on board already.
I've thought about the current knowledge sharing services out there and definitely see room for innovation in this area, but I don't know it well enough to say whether this is what's needed or not. There does seem to be a feature gap, between AMA's and Quora's ask everyone style functionality, to instead ask an individual a question. One thing that would worry me here, is how else is this better than Quora? If Quora add this one feature, allowing users to ask other specific users questions, how else would yes.no differentiate?
Either way, congrats on getting this far, and love the domain 👌
@fredrivett Thanks for the honest feedback and nice words :) we believe it is quite hard for Quora to just develop such a feature, because it's a whole new shift in core value of a product rather than a feature development. Thus, changing Quora's core value proposition from "crowdsourcing questions to anyone who would like to answer" to what we do - getting answers from the people you admire.
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@jodoron Fair play. All the best with this Yonatan, hope it works out! 👌
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