Quora meets SMS - Cloudy, social answers through your friends.
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#2I'm one of the founders of Cloudy (I submitted a post earlier and it didn't go anywhere, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2227646), so feel free to comment with any questions or suggestions you have.
Re: Quora meets SMS - Cloudy, social answers through your friends.
#3The homepage should show a screenshot of the results screen, because that's where (I assume) this service has value over just sending a mass text.
Re: Quora meets SMS - Cloudy, social answers through your friends.
#4I'm one of the founders of Cloudy (I submitted a post earlier and it didn't go anywhere, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2227646 ), so feel free to comment with any questions or suggestions you have.
What are some common questions are people asking with this?
Re: Quora meets SMS - Cloudy, social answers through your friends.
#5I'm one of the founders of Cloudy (I submitted a post earlier and it didn't go anywhere, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2227646 ), so feel free to comment with any questions or suggestions you have.
What are some common questions are people asking with this?
We don't actually read the text of individual questions, as we want our users to feel confident that their questions will only be read by the friends they choose to ask. From talking to early users, though, coordinating group activities seems to be a popular use-case.
Re: Quora meets SMS - Cloudy, social answers through your friends.
#6The homepage should show a screenshot of the results screen, because that's where (I assume) this service has value over just sending a mass text.
Very good point, we'll definitely add that in.
Re: Quora meets SMS - Cloudy, social answers through your friends.
#7Do you offer a web version of the app?
Re: Quora meets SMS - Cloudy, social answers through your friends.
#8I really like the idea. I can see this being really popular amongst a group of friends in lots of social situations - bars, dinner parties, events.
That said, I know Quora is the thing right now, but how does asking a question and getting yes/no from your friends have anything to do with Quora? Yes this is a Q & A service but Quora isn't a yes/no type of Q&A service. Also - this is amongst your friends, whearas Quora's popularity is being driven by the answers from 'experts/insiders/etc' to questions from 'outsiders.'
I don't want to just assume the headline is purposely click-bait so I'll just ask...how do you see this as Quora meets SMS?
Re: Quora meets SMS - Cloudy, social answers through your friends.
#9I really like the idea. I can see this being really popular amongst a group of friends in lots of social situations - bars, dinner parties, events. That said, I know Quora is the thing right now, but how does asking a question and getting yes/no from your friends have anything to do with Quora? Yes this is a Q & A service but Quora isn't a yes/no type of Q&A service. Also - this is amongst your friends, whearas Quora…
We actually didn't write the current title, we like to clearly differentiate ourselves from general Q&A services such as Quora. Unlike Quora, Yahoo Answers, etc, questions on Cloudy are structured (more comparable to a poll), asked to a specific group of friends (rather than to everybody), and are pushed out to the people you ask (either by APNS or SMS). You're quite right when you say that we have relatively little to do with Quora et al.
Re: Quora meets SMS - Cloudy, social answers through your friends.
#10I'm one of the founders of Cloudy (I submitted a post earlier and it didn't go anywhere, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2227646 ), so feel free to comment with any questions or suggestions you have.
my feedback ...
first, the app is really cool. love the idea.
personally, I'd lose the head shots and job titles from your about page. instead, tell us why you created this, how you got started, etc.
what are you doing with this data? do you have a privacy policy? this probably won't stop your growth, but it might encourage adoption if you let people know you aren't evil.