Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: Ask X anything – AMA shouldn't be a one time thing

askxanything.com

21–26 of 26 posts

Re: Show HN: Ask X anything – AMA shouldn't be a one time thing

#21

You should add a $$ aspect on this to incentivize the Twitter users to answer for cash. YouTube does this kind of, and there's another app that does this too I forget what it's called though.

Answers will quickly lose credibility the moment an asker finds out that the answerer was monetarily compensated to answer their question.

I would think the money would come from the asker as a bounty for the answer. Where do you envision the money coming from?

Re: Show HN: Ask X anything – AMA shouldn't be a one time thing

#22

The main difference between this and a traditional AMA is that the AMA host agrees to answer questions beforehand. There is no such guarantee in this product - how do you plan on combating questions that just sit idle? If questions just sit unanswered this is basically a twitter aggregate.

This was tried at least once before (e.g. FormSpring), and that was the exact downfall: sites like this turned into ghost towns.

Re: Show HN: Ask X anything – AMA shouldn't be a one time thing

#23
This is well done but the struggle is going to be getting a critical mass. If you can get one or two well known people to commit to answering questions regularly then that will attract users. A lot of people used Whale initially to ask Justin Kan questions [1].

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/31/justin-kan-launches-video-...

Re: Show HN: Ask X anything – AMA shouldn't be a one time thing

#24
post #4

The main difference between this and a traditional AMA is that the AMA host agrees to answer questions beforehand. There is no such guarantee in this product - how do you plan on combating questions that just sit idle? If questions just sit unanswered this is basically a twitter aggregate.

Yeah I don't understand the value in this as a platform to ask/answer questions. If I want to ask someone something at their twitter handle, why go through this when I can mention them directly? The only value would be that this has a centralized placed to view questions that were answered or are waiting to be answered. Even then, AMA threads don't just vanish. You can always go back an view them or visit the tabled[…

If 1000's of people are asking the same question then its more likely to be answered.

Re: Show HN: Ask X anything – AMA shouldn't be a one time thing

#26

The main difference between this and a traditional AMA is that the AMA host agrees to answer questions beforehand. There is no such guarantee in this product - how do you plan on combating questions that just sit idle? If questions just sit unanswered this is basically a twitter aggregate.

I mean I think there could actually be value in a twitter aggregator for topics you're interested in (no idea why Twitter hasn't done something like that). But I agree.

Twitter did do something like that. Hashtags. It started as a way to help users categorize their tweets. It still serves that purpose, but it also functions as beacons to users and a way to highlight a specific sentiment.
Post reply on HN