Absolutely. I saw Flawk the other day. Pretty cool. I think the major difference is the focus on individuals rather than brands. Not sure if Tom has any thoughts on working with brands or not? We could ask him!
Yabbly recently pivoted to this new AMA model. Since the pivot they've had some really amazing AMAs with top venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and chefs.
Thx for the shout out @adamslieb. I'm not super familiar with Flawk and Boya but they both look very cool. Right now we're primarily focused on personal AMA's from folks who've done interesting things in the startup space.
Spent more than an hour on this so far, love it. One thing I am concerned about though is retention, knowing to come back to the site either through Twitter or other channels resurfacing the content.
@rrhoover gave me an idea on the value of tweet links, by placing them near sharable content, like comments. I don't see much sharing integrated in the current yabbly product but think it would be a great way to re-engage and grow the userbase.
Would love to hear what you are thinking about @toml in terms of how to improve the early first time re-engagement for Yabbly
Edit: Just saw share in top right, look forward to when there is a mobile product ama will be sharing all over the place :). Still interested though about how you think about this
ThX @Anderson760 it's a great point. We've started out a bit more on the subtle side WRT to sharing and signing up for our email digest. We also don't require an account to ask a question or make a comment.
I guess our initial goal has been to prove the model out from an engagement once you're there pov and then layer on top ways to drive those repeat visits and shares.
I think we do struggle with a desire to balance not being too "grabby" with our new users and also building a sustainable and organic growth engine.
My guess is we'll be gradually turning up and tuning the viral and retention features in the next few weeks. One more aggressive step we could take is to require anyone who wants to ask a question to sign up for an account and be opted in to the weekly email digest. Our concern there is it would impact number of questions for our hosts...
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