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!
@mcuevasm Thanks Mitchell, we'll take that as a compliment!
A few answers to your question...
We see yes.no as more of a traditional network than Wiselike, with a home feed and cross-platform functionality.
A unique emphasis for us is what we do with unanswered questions and upvotes. Fans ask questions, and others upvote the best questions that they want answered too, resulting in a list of the most popular and trending questions. This in itself can be used by answerers to identify what they should be answering, as well as by us to collect questions for people who haven't yet joined, in order to bring them to the platform.
On top of that, we don't allow the Anonymous asking of questions at all, we have a strict policy to maintain transparency and respect on the site.
Hi guys, nice job.
With the hope of Yes/No attracting the "right" people from different verticals, this could be a great way to be topic-focused and rise above the noise of other "personal" (social etc) communications methods.
@jodoron no specific ones in mind Yonatan. I think there is a great opportunity to expand beyond the immediate suspects, i.e the "tech celebs" (credit: @bentossell ;)) which are already sort of reachable on other channels.
@ohadaviv I totally agree and actually working on this as we speak :) well not this instant since we're live on Producthunt. We are building further categories and already onboarding new interesting celebs in different categories. That is the path we also believe could help build yes.no to a better product.
I love this idea. It's a really great idea to help both the "user" and the "infuencer". I am often asked advice on and help with startup ideas, MVPs, existing companies, landing pages, markets and basically help to validate an idea that's being conceived. I mentor and help founders and individuals via accelerator programs and my own women's organisation on the daily and really try to be part of the startup community i live in but i don't think messenger is the only platform i can be reached on - there should be more. It's currently the easiest way to contact me and most of the questions come to me through there as its easy to reach me there. But i'd like another platform to have a wider reach.
Most people won't know how open i am to questions and helping out unless they know me or they've just given it a go and pinged me but i am very open to helping and its one of the best parts of the job in this entrepreneurial world i live in. A 'direct way to reach the person you want to reach', quora style product for people is a much needed idea and i'm glad its here. Well done to all that worked on it.
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