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This would be a great side project for learning how to setup and manage a social Q/A site. I don't think it's a good business/startup idea though. It doesn't
by oscilloscope 16y ago
This would be a great side project for learning how to setup and manage a social Q/A site.
I don't think it's a good business/startup idea though. It doesn't seem much different than Reddit, in particular.
How about playing with the Reddit, Twitter, etc APIs to create pages devoted each devoted to an open-ended question? For instance, a user could ask the question, "Is marriage worth it?". You could use Natural Language Processing and other techniques to pull answers from all the web's wacky sources. Still have a submission system for your own users to submit answers-- but prepopulating with existing content on the web might help solve some chicken-egg problems for you.
- andrewtbham 16y agothe idea of interfacing with the twitter apis is an interesting one... can you show me an example link of an open ended statement on reddit? here are some examples on twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/search/%233wordsaftersex http://twitter.com/#!/search/%233wordsaftersex http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23wordsthatleadtotrouble http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23wordsthatleadtotrouble
- oscilloscope 16y agoThere are lots. Check the AskReddit subreddit (reddit.com/r/AskReddit) A recent thread I really enjoyed reading was: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/related/ddwcl/hey_reddit_how_do_i_explain_death_to_my_4_year_old/ http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/related/ddwcl/hey_reddit_h...
- andrewcamel 16y agoI definitely agree with oscillioscope that you would need to use APIs from twitter and other websites to gather answers to these questions and probably the questions themselves, at least in the beginning.