3 ms·
Ask HN: What is Quora doing right?
Quora seems to get talked about a lot, and seems to have many influential people as members.
What is it doing right? How did it get all those influential people to sign up to such a new website?
Bonus question: How are they planning on making money?
- photon_off 16y agoThey are providing something that people want: answers (not written in text speak) to interesting questions. As to why they appear to be getting so much traction to a problem already solved by several sites (Reddit, MetaFilter, StackExchange, Googling), I'm not entirely certain. I suspect the answers market is just that large, and though I haven't followed them much, there must be some key (or controversial) people involved helping them. Never underestimate the buzz that human drama creates.
- jiganti 16y agoHow has quora done so far? Would they consider themselves a huge success, mild success, etc?
- gojomo 16y agoQuora itself has a bunch to say on this: http://www.quora.com/Why-is-Quora-a-valuable-service http://www.quora.com/Why-is-Quora-a-valuable-service http://www.quora.com/Why-Users-Love-Quora http://www.quora.com/Why-Users-Love-Quora http://www.quora.com/How-did-Quora-manage-to-do-what-Mahalo-and-Yahoo-Answers-couldnt-which-is-getting-such-high-quality-questions-and-answers-on-their-site http://www.quora.com/How-did-Quora-manage-to-do-what-Mahalo-... http://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-quality-of-discussion-on-Quora-so-high http://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-quality-of-discussion-on-Quo...
- coryl 16y agoFrom the inside Quora doesn't look to be very big. Maybe its because I don't have a network within Quora, but browsing topics is kind of difficult. There doesn't seem to be much involvement outside of topics regarding Startups, Business, Technology, etc.