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I don't understand this. Every company I've worked with has struggled with the problem of making it easy for new people to learn the answers to the sort of detailed questions that Quora excels at. Since 2007, I've wished I could pay them money to deploy quora.internal.piedpiper.com, but no. Why? https://www.quora.com/Why-doesnt-Quora-sell-its-product-to-o...
Quora is still going? wow...
I see others are mentioning Stack Exchange, but I think the two communities are entirely different. Stack Exchange is good when you have a very precise question which likely has a very precise answer and can easily be categorized into a very precise topic. If any of those three conditions fails, you're more likely to just meet hostility there than to get an enjoyable discussion.
Good. Quora is a great website. It was only a matter of time and this looks like a decent way to do it.
I'm sure it's amazing, although I could never bring myself to sign-in. It always seems too "click-baitey". Sort of like "we have the answer but you have to sign in to get it". So I've always just let them have their answer and gone elsewhere.
Advertizing
Google, Facebook, Twitter, Quora, Stackoverflow (a lot more niche though) are all making money with advertizing.
It's perhaps not the only way they make money, but it is always one of the first revenue sources they have, or the first even.
I'm inclined to believe that a big chunk of the web app startups out there are about the same thing.
Nuances are welcome :)
Quora has accumulated a great collection of personal-opinion essays. Even if all of their uses quit in disgust today, they've got enough well-written content, acquired on the cheap, to sell ads for years to come. They may actually break even some day. Which, to paraphrase another commenter, is every Harvard grad's dream.
I get the sentiment, but the fact that someone can say this about a company that, at one time, sat on a billion dollar valuation is mind-numbing.
Pure SV echo-chamber product on so many levels. Self promoters heaven. Quora offers nothing that I can't get somewhere else on the internet, and the fact that I can't move from link to link without logging in is stupid.
Quora has become a collection of loaded and low-effort questions (the answers are still good though) But there wouldn't be much loss if it closed
[0] https://www.quora.com/Was-Bill-Clinton-a-cooler-president-th...
Quora's problems today are a direct result of what made them popular: celebrity. They made a great big splash when the media genuflected to the idea that "You can ask a question about Facebook, and Mark Zuckerberg could answer! " So regardless of the question or answer there will always be dominance by celebrities and their celebrators gleefully upvoting anything they post regardless of underlying fact. I prefer Stac…
Quora's problems today are a direct result of what made them popular: celebrity. They made a great big splash when the media genuflected to the idea that "You can ask a question about Facebook, and Mark Zuckerberg could answer! " So regardless of the question or answer there will always be dominance by celebrities and their celebrators gleefully upvoting anything they post regardless of underlying fact. I prefer Stac…
In this way, Quora could try to use a sophisticated voting system to suss out the best answer.