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Reddit is devouring that use-case. I'm not sure where Quora fits in.
I don't use Quora very much, but I have noticed that it seems to be very focused on the identity of the person replying, and even the identity of upvoters. It feels like a great place for senior management in organisations to answer questions about topics related to their roles.
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Direction probably. Quora has floundered for nearly 5 years, burned millions of dollars and still has a questionable product. Meanwhile Stack Exchange has been around only a year longer, a fraction of the funding, and pretty well owns the entire question-answer niche.
Stack Exchange owns the question & answer niche? I don't hardly think so. Yahoo Answers, as bad as it is, is massive, and shows up throughout Google's top results; ditto answers.com; and Quora is a top 500 site. Stack has seven sites getting at least 100,000 visits per day. One is a break out homerun (Stack Overflow obviously), and it drastically dwarfs the other sites. All but a few of their top 20+ sites are strict…
Not sure about the impact on YC though. It may create an environment of mixed incentives. Quora's incentive is almost perverse, in that they get the most value out of YC from failing startups.
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Reddit has semi-anonymous, unverified accounts. Quora requires FB. Kind of makes it a no-brainer for me.
You can still sign up for Quora accounts without a social network OAuth. I just did. It asked for my email, firstname, and lastname. When you post questions or answer, you can also click the "anonymous" checkbox to remove your name.
if you don't, they'll flag you and until you update your name, your account will be frozen (you can read and follow but can't answer) and all your previous answers hidden
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Since neither his comment nor his profile mention it, I'll mention here for those unaware that this guy is co-founder of Stack Exchange.
"coddinghorror" gives it away though :-)
Edit for clarity in case I was misunderstood
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Direction probably. Quora has floundered for nearly 5 years, burned millions of dollars and still has a questionable product. Meanwhile Stack Exchange has been around only a year longer, a fraction of the funding, and pretty well owns the entire question-answer niche.
I think Quora is a totally different product, content wise. You don't go to Quora for programming help unless it's hello world in php. You go there for /r/iama type of questions. Or it's just my usage, largely influenced by the weekly email.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.quora.com/
[2] http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creativ...
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Thanks for including us!
It would be awesome if you could give more info to the community regarding your decision to join YC!