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Perhaps people shouldn't make startup with something as difficult to make profitable as question and answers type content, and instead leave it for an organizat
by kiba 7y ago
Perhaps people shouldn't make startup with something as difficult to make profitable as question and answers type content, and instead leave it for an organization that is oriented to that mission.
That way, something like quora would grow more valuable instead of becoming more useless as they attempt to make money out of a squeezed lemon.
- davidw 7y agoSeems like a windmill people keep tilting at. A while back there was "Experts Exchange" AKA "Expert Sex Change dot com".
- toomuchtodo 7y agoMy understanding is that Stack Overflow started as a direct competitor to Experts Exchange and their SEO shenanigans, although based on recent goings on, Stack Exchange would’ve been served better as a non profit entity similar to Wikipedia or OpenStreetMap. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1210444 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1210444
- hinkley 7y agoI wonder sometimes what Nietzsche would have made of VC culture. This is one of those times.
- hinkley 7y agoExperts Exchange: The living embodiment of the SNL Celebrity Jeopardy! sketch.
- hinkley 7y agoI want to be the person who is sympathetic to people being laid off, instead of making light of the situation. But Quora grinds my gears so hard that I can't separate the two.