Quora is already “Google Useful”

watty wrote: post #2

What does Quora solve that other existing solutions don't? http://www.mahalo.com/ http://www.formspring.me http://vark.com/ http://answers.yahoo.com/ http://www.chacha.com/ ...

The product just works so much better than the rest in terms of the social mechanics + natural flow of user interaction. You could have asked the same thing of what does dropbox do that box.net, xdrive, (insert 10 million others),etc. do better? Dropbox just works so much better that once you experience it, you'll certainly agree. I was an early user of Vark and I loved their product in the early days, but once the floodgates opened, I think the way it was used didn't logically scale. I was getting lots of random ims + unrelated questions.

Re: Quora is already “Google Useful”

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Post by mmelin » Thu, Jun 17, 2010, 6:35 PM UTC

So, does anyone have a spare invite for those of us who aren't a part of the Silicon Valley echo chamber?

Re: Quora is already “Google Useful”

#6

Post by mikexstudios » Thu, Jun 17, 2010, 6:48 PM UTC

mmelin wrote: post #5

So, does anyone have a spare invite for those of us who aren't a part of the Silicon Valley echo chamber?

Just sent you an invite to your gmail address.

Re: Quora is already “Google Useful”

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 17, 2010, 6:51 PM UTC

mmelin wrote: post #5

So, does anyone have a spare invite for those of us who aren't a part of the Silicon Valley echo chamber?

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Re: Quora is already “Google Useful”

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Post by mmelin » Thu, Jun 17, 2010, 6:52 PM UTC

mikexstudios wrote: post #6

mmelin wrote: post #5

So, does anyone have a spare invite for those of us who aren't a part of the Silicon Valley echo chamber?

Just sent you an invite to your gmail address.

Thank you :-)

Re: Quora is already “Google Useful”

#9

Post by sanj » Thu, Jun 17, 2010, 6:53 PM UTC

This is a little too close to JWZ's great truth:

So I said, narrow the focus. Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?

from: http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html

Re: Quora is already “Google Useful”

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Post by jasonlbaptiste » Thu, Jun 17, 2010, 7:01 PM UTC

sanj wrote: post #9

This is a little too close to JWZ's great truth: So I said, narrow the focus. Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid? from: http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html

Wow, ive never seen that article before, but it makes sense. I mean Quora's goal isn't to get me laid, but it can certainly pass that litmus test ie- advice from women, how to find a wingwoman,etc.