1. Hi, my name is Bob Rosenschein, founder and CEO of Curiyo. (Previously I founded and built Answers.com.)
2. At Curiyo, we took a hard look at how people consume content and tell stories, especially on smartphones.
3. And we found that the big problem is not just overload. It's that you have to go to lots different places, apps, or web sites for a good look at a topic.
4. So we decided to invert that prism -- and bring it all to you -- in one simple view.
5. We created an app that is completely topic-centric -- no complicated juxtaposition queries here (e.g. score of game between x and y; or distance to restaurant).
6. Just plain topics, of which we've got 5M under management.
7. Next, we curate (Curiyo, right?) relevant content from multiple interesting sources: social media, videos, news, pictures, Reddit, Twitter, etc.
8. Then we make it easy to read with a card-metaphor -- more than a link but less than a tome.
9. But here's the funnest part -- you can add your own opinion on something with a new feature call MY2¢.
10. Today we support you recording a short (30-sec) video, audio, text or link comment.
11. If you know or care a lot about something, go ahead, record your two cents.
12. Otherwise, just enjoy what other people who are expert or passionate about a team, player, celeb, politician, book, movie or whatever have said.
13. We are passionate about simpler content delivery.
14. We hope you ENJOY CURIYO. It's a new product and work in progress, so please send me your comments and suggestions for cool new features.
-- Bob
Congrats, @bobr. Big day for you. And it seems PH likes your vision a lot too. Glad to say I have been following Curiyo evolve over the years. Would love to hear what's next or what lessons you learned from building and selling Answers.com that were implemented here.
Good question @hilzfuld. First, what's coming next. It won't be enough to show all the coolest stuff for every topic, but also to supply tools for people interested in that topic to share, meet, and connect. As for lessons learned -- patience, my friend! Roll with the punches, and thinks pragmatically every day about what comes next. Everyone knows that companies change direction; that's not bad, it awesomely good! Answers.com changed shape a half-dozen times before getting it "right", but even then, you've gotta adapt all the time. That's the terrifying -- and the exciting -- part of every startup!
Thanks for the Product Hunt support @benln. We had so much fun building this. We started out with a web based product (look at any page on USA TODAY), but are super excited about our release today for Android and iOS.
In the past wikipedia was good enough. As I understand @bobr you are aggregator lots of sources. If I will search a topic in Curiyo you will gather all information (from lots of services) and present them to me? how you different yourself from other content aggregators?
Thank you @yanivpresler. We especially like the mix of varied sources and byte-sized cards to make them digestible. We are news -- but not just news. We've got images and Wikipedia, of course. But then we also combine social media and Twitter and, for that matter, we try to make Reddit a little easier for people. So Curiyo is really a mix of multiple kinds of sources (static, dynamic, social).
But I think the coolest new feature is the ability to add your own comments -- we call it MY2¢. You can add a short-form video comment, or an audio, or a link or text.
Of course it will take a little while to assemble many comments -- and the community interested in that topic will help move the best stuff to the top. But we hope Curiyo is a large, scalable, new way of looking at things.
@bobr who is going to check the comments? you don't want people to spam your platform.. in Reddit and Wikipedia you have managers. Are you going to add managers to check comments?
Great question @yanivpresler. We came up with an innovative way to reduce unwanted comments. First, we will have a down vote mechanism where the uninteresting content sinks very low. More importantly, if someone puts in inappropriate, vulgar, racist, etc. comments, ANYONE can flag it, and it will go to a human moderator as appropriate.
Great product. Really interesting take and approach at handling the "unfiltered feed" issue we've all been dealing with. The app I've developed, called Mashfeed (http://get.mashfeed.com), takes a similar approach by also allowing users to discover topic-based content from multiple sources under one roof, but with a focus on social media by letting users create collections of their favorite feeds & follow ones created by other users.
Would love to see a master feed of all content I've favorited, perhaps adding fresh content based on my favorites. Great work - congratulations!
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