@koridhandy u bet! He's the one and only Tay Zonday (of the "Chocolate Rain" fame: ) He's a really nice guy and super down to earth too! Awesome dude all around.
Amazong job @michael_cho Been so exciting watching your journey and progress with the product since both Commaful and YAM were born at a similar time. You've got so much passion for the space and hustle so hard. I love it!!!
Who is the dream influencer you'd like to have on yam?
@sydney_liu_sl thanks for ur kind words man!
Funny enough when we were building the MVP I thought it'd be perfect for @justinkan (he clearly thinks so and went ahead to build one himself lol)
I really look up to @ev and I'm a big fan of @msuster 's snapstorms too! So yah, having them on YAM will be surreal :)
Having said that, beyond these tech influencers or celebs in general, what I really hope to get onboard more are actually folks like AbdulKhafi (English teacher in Aleppo), Ryan Archuleta (Army Veteran), Cris Hernandez (Campaign Manager for Texas State Rep election), etc.
They may not be influencers but their stories are every bit as fascinating and deserve to be heard.
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what a great idea! congrats! wouldn't it make sense to hash your video urls? 🤔 i just enjoyed a bunch of full length videos without paying for them 🎥🙄😊 https://d2g9p8cekugjwh.cloudfron...
@neuling2k haha yes, we know there're definitely "leaks" now...but our priority for this MVP is just to main hypothesis, which is whether AMA+video is gonna be a compelling sell. The micropayment is icing on the cake, but we'll look to tighten things a little in the next few builds :)
Assume you're enjoying some of the video answers; which ones do you find most interesting?
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@michael_cho totally understand. its just whenever i see urls containing numeric parts i automatically increment them and see what happens 😁
to be honest, i actually watched just around three clips till it was clear that these are full length clips 😉
@neuling2k got it! any particular video answers you like or don't like? do you feel you wasted your time watching them?
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I like the more non-tech format of YAM compared to Whale. Congrats on the UI, although I think it could use a little refining to make it less bulky.
Videos could be a tad smaller and the questions could be more highlighted. That's the aspect that I like more on Whale.
I will be definitely using it - you can find me at https://api.letsyam.com/users/c4...
@nscmnto am curious though why do you like about the "non-tech" format? could you elaborate a bit more?
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@michael_cho awesome! Well, Whale is mostly for entrepreneurs, founders, tech people. At least that's the crowd right now. But with YAM you get to ask and reply to questions about other subjects that wouldn't really fit Whale right now. Like politics, relationships, more intimate questions. Whale seems to be more of a Quora for founders and YAM more of a AMA for everyone else. :)
@nscmnto yah that seems to be a fairly accurate depiction for now. Obviously both products will continue to evolve and it's be interesting to see where this goes from here :)
Rather interesting concept. Is that first intro video exported straight from the app? I love the concept of previewing an answer, especially useful for those very exact topic specific questions.
@tudorizer Yah! Tay Zonday is even more awesome in real life! You'll see that intro video once you open the app the very first time :)
Glad you dig the "free preview"!
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Great work, Michael!
How is your app different than Whale and why would someone choose your app over another video question and answer service?
Thanks!
@chrisharveyesq great question!
Firstly, hats off to the Whale team! I really like what they've made and it's really exciting to have more teams looking into this "video Q&A" space.
While we may seem similar, I think there're some key differences (both use-case as well as feature-level):
1. We focus more on story-telling. We do have some influencers/experts (eg. Cesar Millan aka "Dog Whisperer", Tay Zonday aka "Chocolate Rain Youtuber", etc) on YAM, but what excites us even more is allowing "ordinary folks with extraordinary folks" telling their stories (eg. see this English teacher in Aleppo answer on "What're the conditions of schools in Aleppo": https://api.letsyam.com/answers/...)
2. We allow a "free preview" for first half of every video on YAM as we really want to minimize any "buyer remorse".
3. On YAM, we allow the Asker (and not the Answerer) to offer a private price along with his/her question. We did this for 2 reasons: we want the Answerer to see the full "demand curve" of all questions (sorted by price) and we just didn't like the idea of having each user/Answerer declare a "public price tag".
4. We allow users to "ask themselves a question and answer them". Sounds silly but we think it can be really useful in turning typical Q&A format (which tends to be more passive in that you'll have to wait for Qs before answering) into a "self-publishing platform". Think FAQs or questions you wish more people want to ask you :)
There' a bunch of other differences (eg. square vs vertical videos, ability to ask anonymous question, $0.05 vs ~$0.30 to unlock an answer, etc), but those are more feature-level differences.
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