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Ask people you admire things you’ve always wanted to know

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Ask people you admire things you’ve always wanted to know

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NewsletterStash

Kudos for the great work. One thing I think that it could be improved is the Discover page. It will awesome if I can read the full description of the person, three columns per row will be perfect. How did you guys get the initial traction?

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10yr ago

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Maker

@ossamaweb Hey Ossama, thank you for the lovely words and support :) Thank you for the awesome idea about the discovery, we are actually brainstorming about it, as from experiments that we have conducted with our users: some people preferred a discover page with a name / title and that's it, while other like you preferred a more elaborate profile bubblicons in the discovery page. We are testing it out and will do what most of our users would prefer eventually! About traction - there is no replacement for hard, manual working of reaching out, following up and convincing people to try your product. It get's smoother in time, when you of course manage to recruit interesting people your product.

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10yr ago

First I must say I really like what you've done with this product and hope you'll give some fight to Quora. One question does come to mind: what if I don't know to whom I should address my question, how can I ask a question that will go out to the whole community?

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10yr ago

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Maker

@n1rc0 Thanks Nir for the nice words! Broadcasting your question to the yes.no community or your followers is an awesome Idea! We would definitely consider it and put it in our roadmap :)

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10yr ago

MissingLink

congrats on the launch. This looks very interesting. I can get answers for the people I find interesting on Twitter / Facebook, how are you different?

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10yr ago

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Maker

@yosit Hey Yosi, thanks for the feedback! Twitter and Facebook are both wonderful platforms, but they are a lot more general than yes.no, which is designed specifically for Q&A interactions. This means that content does not get “swallowed” in the same way. In yes.no , questions and answers live together, on a specific user’s profile, are categorized by tags, and are easily searchable. Furthermore, twitter is a very “in the moment” network, and that means that as time goes on, your tweet becomes less and less relevant. This is simply not the case on yes.no, where publishing control lives with the answerer, and users are encouraged to take their time and respond when they’re ready.

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10yr ago

Doodle

Looks like an interesting mash of Quora and Twitter, by putting some public-social-pressure on a person to answer a question. How do you plan on overcoming the "mundane" questions valley? Continuously asking similar people similar questions will result in some vanilla answers. On Quora\AMAs, there's usually something interesting going on to talk about, and the rarity of appearance brings in really good questions.

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10yr ago

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Maker

@eyalyavor Thanks for the feedback Eyal :) We are exactly trying to do that and combine the network effect with traditional Q&A, in a respectful and intelligent way. You described what works well for Quora, we are offering a different product. The focus is about the person rather than the question, highly interesting questions will be upvoted by the sub-community(audience of that celeb) and surface the most "trending" questions for that celeb - that's our idea of how yes.no should be.

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10yr ago

Don’t Panic by Lemon.io

Great idea. But how do you motivate "people I admire" to join and answer questions? Maybe publicity, but wouldn't be overwhelmed?

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10yr ago

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Maker

@volodarik Thanks for the feedback Aleksandr :), first of all you are welcome to send me to jonathan@yes.no, who are the interesting people you would like to see on yes.no and I promise to do my 200% to get them onboard for you, Other than that, you are welcome to ask them a question and share it to your social cycles and audience, inviting them to upvote the question. When we see questions upvoted to a certain amount we are able to recognize it and than realize this celeb interest our audience and than we start operating towards getting the answer also from our side.

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10yr ago

Future Minds Fund

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. /M

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10yr ago

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Maker

@themelamini Thanks for the awesome perspective Melanie :) we would love to have you answering questions in yes.no

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10yr ago

Future Minds Fund

@jodoron Yes! I'd love that - i think it can be my quickest route towards entrepreneur celeb status! Joking, not joking!

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10yr ago

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Maker

@themelamini You lead people and advise - by doing so you are already an entrepreneur celeb :) we treat all of them equally.

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10yr ago

hey postcard - digital postcards

Great Idea and design. Just joined it. As very curious, I want to know that, How bring Heros to yes.no? I mean how you contact them? #justasking

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10yr ago

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Maker

@mhrnik Thanks a lot for the nice words Mihir :), It's my pleasure to share the knowledge I learned so far, sometimes all you have to do is ask people to join, perseverance of course helps. When you get an initial traction, it becomes easier to get more hero's to join. Would love to help you also in person with your startup if you need with ideas and strategies to do that, contact me: jonathan@yes.no

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10yr ago

hey postcard - digital postcards

Thanks. I'll ping you.

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10yr ago

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