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@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
@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 answerers can choose, let's say, the top three questions to answer each month, which will in turn increase the quality and value of the content.
Other than this, we are not focusing solely on 'tech celebs'. Whilst this is where we have started (as it's near and dear to us), yes.no is a platform for connecting heroes from all industries and corners of the world with their respective audiences. A platform like ours is more suitable for this type of interaction, generating easily searchable and categorized content.
AMAs and sites like Quora both have their value, but yes.no is distinct from the former in that it is not a one-time session, and the latter in that it focuses on the person being asked, rather than the question itself.
Hope that answers your questions! Would welcome any more :)
@_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
@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.
@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?
I did an AMA type thing with them here: https://yes.no/jack-smith
Here's a video overview:
First off, congrats on the launch and on getting some great names on board already.
I've thought about the current knowledge sharing services out there and definitely see room for innovation in this area, but I don't know it well enough to say whether this is what's needed or not. There does seem to be a feature gap, between AMA's and Quora's ask everyone style functionality, to instead ask an individual a question. One thing that would worry me here, is how else is this better than Quora? If Quora add this one feature, allowing users to ask other specific users questions, how else would yes.no differentiate?
Either way, congrats on getting this far, and love the domain 👌
@fredrivett Thanks for the honest feedback and nice words :) we believe it is quite hard for Quora to just develop such a feature, because it's a whole new shift in core value of a product rather than a feature development. Thus, changing Quora's core value proposition from "crowdsourcing questions to anyone who would like to answer" to what we do - getting answers from the people you admire.
Been answering some questions that are up there. Really like it, have been using the app. Are there plans to allow sharing answers to platforms other than Facebook? I would like Twitter especially and linkedin.
@robertwilliger Hey Rob and thanks for the feedback, yes you can currently share your answers from your profile page to Facebook / Twitter / LinkedIn,
Let me know if you didn't managed. Also welcome to shoot me an email to jonathan@yes.no
Sounds very nice! is that the final design? and are there going to be different categories for different people, for example athletes, singers, etc?
@rotemthegolfer Thanks for the feedback Rotem! The current categories we have are: "Technology", "Business" & " Science", under them there are also a few sub-categories. We make sure a category has enough celeb "presense" before adding them as an option.
What kind of categories would you like to see in yes.no?
@rotemthegolfer Noted, we are already working towards reaching out these guys along with other influencers under the larger category of Entertainment.
Thank you for releasing an Android app at the same time as iOS. Nice to not be a second class citizen :)
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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@themelamini Thanks for the awesome perspective Melanie :) we would love to have you answering questions in yes.no
@jodoron Yes! I'd love that - i think it can be my quickest route towards entrepreneur celeb status! Joking, not joking!
@themelamini You lead people and advise - by doing so you are already an entrepreneur celeb :) we treat all of them equally.
@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
I just learned about this site yesterday and played around with it for a bit. I like the format of it being ongoing. I also like that it seems most people with expertise can participate and answer questions not just the anointed ones.
Of course, the real question will come in the development of the community and having the people asking and answering questions.
A site I definitely plan on exploring a bit more.
@robertwilliger Thanks loads Rob! the ongoing part is exactly what we think could provide extra value for our users!
We realized very fast other that the "mega-celebs" there are a lot smaller scale celebs that we call "local-hero's", the purpose of yes.no's entire existence is to give a stage for any community leader or influencer to take on Q&A in a respectful manner.
Would love to have you exploring yes.no and hear your ideas and feedback also in the future :)
Great product and seems like a great team. I actually heard about this a few weeks ago and even attended an AMA. Learned a lot and hope to be on there myself one day! In the mean time have got great stuff out of it. Good job guys. Definitely deserves an upvote.
@stefamini Stefanie, it's amazing to hear you know us for weeks and that you like our product :), you are more then welcome to start answering question in yes.no as I am sure you can provide a lot of value for our users.
tl,dr: My first 30 seconds did not wow me or provide me with any value that would prompt me to come back.
I get the idea of this but based on my first 30 seconds on here I'm not sure I'd spend any more time here.
Here's why:
I picked from one of the celebs - Dan Ariely because I like his work.
This is what I saw: https://yes.no/dan-ariely
His profile even says "My name is Dan Ariely and I study how people make decisions -- the good, the bad, and the ugly. "
As a first experience the Q&As I saw came across as frivolous - especially given the weight of the name in question. Seeing the kinds of interactions on his page that I did was like a huge cognitive dissonance for me.
Right there, my motivation to check out anything else or spend any more time went to zero because this offered me nothing of value.
My expectation going in perhaps was different (and maybe thats a messaging thing to look into) but in the "why" part of the response by one of the founders it says:
"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"
If the initial impression itself is of random questions and answers vs those that the person has expertise in then there's little chance of me coming back.
#1 to solve for imo:
Focus what a new user will see/experience (maybe its personas or question categories) vs the plethora of options so that you can predictably guide them to a wow moment (high quality Q&As) in as little time as possible.
I hope this comes across as constructive criticism.
@anujadhiya Thanks Anuj for your valuable feedback.
We can totally appreciate what you're saying, and we recognize this issue itself. It is to do with this being early days for the network, where the surfacing and trending of quality content is a lot more difficult.
At the moment we are working on bringing interesting people to answer, as well as their audiences. It is an ongoing process that we are refining. We are also working on the onboarding, to make those first 30 seconds magical!
Great idea. But how do you motivate "people I admire" to join and answer questions? Maybe publicity, but wouldn't be overwhelmed?
@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.
Hi Asaf and Jonathan!
Great product. I've been using it from Beta stage and am a big fan.
Love the fact that I can actually ask people to submit their questions there instead of my email inbox ;)
Who would be your main target audience for this?
@roypovar We love to have you on our site, Roy. Main target audience for now, when launching, is tech/business/science. But soon(!) we want to get out of our 'bubble' and get more public figures, thought leaders and .... celebrities.
Great job to the team on putting this together, doing outreach, and creating a community from scratch. Never an easy thing!
I like how this focuses on asking specific people directed questions - a lot of which are thoughtful ones. I do feel that a lot of the questions appear canned or are coming from pseudo accounts, but I imagine once the community takes off, things will take care of themselves and it won't really matter.
I believe of the keys to keeping your experts to come back and remain active is by somehow letting them know that their answer has made a difference. Quora uses upvotes; Reddit AMAs have a constant free flow of responses from active participants, etc. Again this may work better when the community has grown sizeably, but it will be very important to think about, imo.
@alirtariq Hi Ali - thanks for the support and feedback, it's much appreciated!
You're certainly right that building a community from scratch is no easy task, and it can take some time for it to develop and reach a good balancing point.
In terms of indicating that answers have made a difference, we have recently introduced the 'like' feature (heart button) for answers (having previously focused only on the upvote for questions). This is a simple but effective way of expressing that an answer is good and appreciated. But definitely agree with the sentiment here, and it will be interesting to think of new and better ways to express this. Any suggestions for how we could do this in a more powerful way would be most welcome!
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!
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
@atlantis76 @snoopdogg needs to do an AMA on yes.no. He'd be the king! Congrats on the launch!
@thepaulcurran @atlantis76 @snoopdogg He is on my hitlist :) One day I will reach him and bring him to yes.no
@atlantis76 How do you guys go about onboarding prominent figures? Are they receptive to this platform?
@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.
Cool, reminds me a lot of Wiselike, would love your insight on what is different! https://www.producthunt.com/tech...
@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.
@mcuevasm @atlantis76 Our pleasure, thank you for giving this detailed feedback :)
Thats perfect, Its seems the perfect combination btw Quora and Reddit ! Congrats guys, keep up the amazing work !
Was invited to do a Q&A on the platform a couple of weeks ago. Was really impressed with experience. Congrats!
Guys, I love the idea! This is exactly what I was missing from Q&A platforms such as Quora and Jelly app. The focus on the person and not the question will enable not just to get valuable answers and information about questions, but most importantly will give the opportunity to build last-long relationships. I think that this opens the door to talented people in business, education and much more, and connect them to influencers who might mentor them or really give them the chance to fulfil their potential.
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