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Ben Tossell@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
What are the chances someone would even reply to you? This is another platform for 'tech celebs' to get bombarded with questions? What would entice them to sign up? Why couldn't people just tweet them questions? Often people do reddit AMAs or even Product Hunt LIVE Chat's where people can ask them things (understand that this is a specified time-frame thou… See more
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Jack Smith@_jacksmith · Serial Entrepreneur & Startup Adviser
@bentossell seems more collated/orderly than quora from my usage of it. as you say, this is ever-lasting. also, only certain people get invited to do reddit/product hunt amas. anyone can be asked questions via this
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Assaf Levy@atlantis76 · Co-founder of yes.no & XLMedia PLC
@bentossell Hi Ben, thanks for your feedback and for your questions. Great points. So, we are emphasizing the importance of the upvote in our platform. This is a simple mechanism for identifying the most popular and trending questions, that eliminates duplicate and spam questions that some stars inevitably attract. We want to promote the idea that answerer… See more
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Ben Tossell@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
@_jacksmith I don;t use Quora so wasn't sure... yeah but I'm just not sure what motivates the person to answer the questions... Another platform to maintain
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Yuval Maoz@yuvmaoz · Digital Markerer @ klear.com
@bentossell I've tried this platform for a while, and actually found some sincere answers on controversial topics (political issues). So, it's not just about techies and an overall nice platform to get direct (but short) answers without the usual fluff around it.
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Ben Tossell@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
@atlantis76 Yeah I just used 'tech celebs' as an example as that is what I know. How many people have you approached to be answerers that have said no rather than yes? What do you pitch to them as the benefit of them maintaining this platform and answering questions?
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Jack Sitt@jacksitt
@bentossell I had the same question in regards to tweets. However, the truth is that I do not get an answer over 90 percent of the time when I tweet someone famous.
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Jack Smith@_jacksmith · Serial Entrepreneur & Startup Adviser
@bentossell yeah. it's another platform to maintain. but the user-onboarding for me (to answer questions that people had left me) was awesome. there was like no signup process. they just dmed me a unique link and i instantly was able to start answering people's questions. very frictionless
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yonatan doron@jodoron · BizDev @ https://yes.no
@bentossell @atlantis76 Hey Ben, thanks for the questions, my name is Jonathan and I am actually the one reaching out to interesting people and inviting them over to answer questions on yes.no, many of them have tried various AMA sessions and some also use Quora. I could tell you that a lot of interesting people I approached to try yes.no were very positive… See more
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yonatan doron@jodoron · BizDev @ https://yes.no
@jacksitt @bentossell As part of my work here, I tried various times to reach out to celebs in Twitter, the higher scales of celebs like Justin Timberlake and so on are not so likely to tweet so I totally understand and agree with you Jack
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Ben Tossell@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
@jodoron OK so my concern here is that if you get 40% to respond and around 50% are positive... Lets assume thats 20% of the outreach that responded and are positive... how many of those actually take part? It's one thing saying 'yeah looks awesome' but another thing when committing time to it... Also if you (as part of the company) can only get around 20% … See more
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yonatan doron@jodoron · BizDev @ https://yes.no
@bentossell I might have been not clear enough sorry, when I wrote positive i meant those 20% are on yes.no, they open a profile and start answering questions, thus, all positive people are joining in and becoming active users. I am talking about people who take questions and answer. To the second part of your question about hundreds of people asking, the … See more
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Ben Tossell@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
@jodoron no I get the value users can get but I'm on about the people answering questions. You can they can have a million questions asked but they have to approve. So exactly the same situation as I mentioned, what happens when 100s of people ask them questions? They wont want to look through LOADS of questions? Yeah so for you as a company to get 20% of … See more
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yonatan doron@jodoron · BizDev @ https://yes.no
@bentossell I see, so for the first part of your question: This would be the brightest day for us :) when users receive so many questions. We could live with celebs being blasted with messages as from their side they will begin answering those that are highly upvoted. Potentially, upvoted questions answered could also be the answer to many other questions th… See more
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Ben Tossell@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
@jodoron Yeah I understand the upvoting of questions but you said that the 'celebs' have to approve the questions to be upvoted in the first place? So that will still be a challenge if loads of questions are asked, no?
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yonatan doron@jodoron · BizDev @ https://yes.no
@bentossell Well as we do most of the onboarding for new celebs mainly now(we are in the beginning of our way) I go through all the questions to see that they are respectful and intelligent and approve them. This would also be the extra-mile we will work towards, providing a good service for celebs filtering and moderating their questions so they would not … See more
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Rob Williger@robertwilliger · CMO MapFig, Copywriting for Non-Mktrs
@_jacksmith @bentossell I think that is a key part. The fact that anyone can get involved and answer questions. It may not be for the tech celebs but maybe those who aren't as well known to be able to engage and maybe build a bit of their platform.
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yonatan doron@jodoron · BizDev @ https://yes.no
@robertwilliger Thanks Rob, that's truly a value we can help provide with our product, there are many "smaller-scale" influencers gathering audience in yes.no
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