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From Idea (Saturday) to Build (Sunday) to TechCrunch (Tuesday). And Now?

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Re: From Idea (Saturday) to Build (Sunday) to TechCrunch (Tuesday). And Now?

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Post by nadaviv »

dutchbrit wrote: post #15
mbenjaminsmith wrote: post #5

I punched through a dozen or so and 100% of those were rhetorical. You need to combine it with some NLP like Kevin's doing here: http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/

I had a lot of rhetorical questions too. Also, Kevin's solution is not 100% waterproof - just looked through some "negative reviews" for ServInt and they weren't exactly negative. Maybe you could build a bayesian filter of some kind? (I'm not sure how Kevin filtered his reviews exactly?)

Maybe he could add a third button, "Not a question", classify each question into "answerable question" and "not a question" categories (according to which button the user clicks) and see which category new questions are classified into using a naive bayes classifier? I think it could work quite well

Re: From Idea (Saturday) to Build (Sunday) to TechCrunch (Tuesday). And Now?

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Post by flyinRyan »

mschenk wrote: post #4
relix wrote: post #3

Very impressive Maarten. I especially like your localisation efforts! The unique URL's fitting for each language are amazing. Do you feel this is a big boon to spread fast? Are you yourself a good speaker of those languages, or did you ask external help for the translations/domain name suggestions?

I speak Dutch, English and reasonable French. For German and Spanish: Google translate to the rescue :-)

It's probably not going to be very good then. :)

Re: From Idea (Saturday) to Build (Sunday) to TechCrunch (Tuesday). And Now?

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Post by weisser »

I really like the idea. 30 seconds is intense and turns it into a game. A way to "cheat" is to hit reply and if you aren't signed into Twitter a window pops up with whatever you have typed in so far and gives you an infinite amount of time to finish your response.

I answered 1/1 questions and it was about vibrato when singing. Now I'm having a discussion about it. Happy to help this person learn to improve their technique.

Re: From Idea (Saturday) to Build (Sunday) to TechCrunch (Tuesday). And Now?

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Post by kami8845 »

nice idea but right now the implementation is full of fail. I got 5 questions, none of which I could answer (directed at their friends / rhetorical) and then I got asked if "this was fun" and to tweet about youasked.it

Please make sure that the user actually answers a single question before asking them to tell their friends how much fun they're having.

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