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Ask HN: Why suddenly there are so many Q&A services?
Quora, formspring.me, stackexchange and more. Is this some kind of a trend ?
- dangrossman 16y agoThere have always been a million clones of Yahoo! Answers. You're just noticing some good ones.
- DevX101 16y agoSounds like a good question for quora.com
- thewordpainter 16y agoalley insider had a good post on this subject with CEO adam d'angelo: http://www.businessinsider.com/what-i-learned-from-being-cto-of-facebook-why-i-started-quora-and-this-is-why-gen-y-kicks-ass-at-entrepreneurship-2010-9 http://www.businessinsider.com/what-i-learned-from-being-cto... i think it's one of those group coupon-type industries. the potential has always been there, but nobody has fully executed on the potential. to dan's point: i'm a big believer that some of the best ideas sprout from areas in the larger corporation that just don't get enough attention. yahoo is focused on a little of a lot, whereas quora has a lot of a little in mind. i personally think quora is the next big thing, and to that end, i've already started including my profile in my email sig :)
- minalecs 16y agoIn a nutshell.. user contributed content, original content, good SEO, and monetize on views. It pretty much takes care of itself with little effort. If you look at what stackexchange they pretty much commoditized the tech.
- skbohra123 16y agoexactly to what I am thinking.