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Looks like Quora on the surface, but much more capable of supporting targeted advertising than StackOverflow. Less meatspace and craigslist-y than Zaarly. Ret
by firebones 15y ago
Looks like Quora on the surface, but much more capable of supporting targeted advertising than StackOverflow.
Less meatspace and craigslist-y than Zaarly.
Retains that same narrow utility focus that inspired Delicious.
Agree with the sentiment that it could be a place to go if Google searching lets you down, but suffers from that same social scalability problem of Quora (the relatively narrow field of expertise of the quality user base limits broad appeal; but to go broad you have to water down the content and answers with micropayment-financed content farmers a la eHow.com which could reduce the quality.)
I suspect that the exit will be fast like Delicious (which was two years from start to Yahoo acquisition), so the speculative question is whose deep pockets (or deeply-funded pockets) will this fit into? I don't view serial entrepreneurship as a negative thing; repeating a $15-$30 million exit twice would be an impressive accomplishment. I also wonder if history repeats itself and whether joshu would take the same route if an embattled-but-on-the-precipice-of-decline company (like Yahoo! was in 2005) offered that kind of exit in 2013-14. (And all the better if Tasty Labs is simply an incubator for multiples of these $20 million spinoff exits.)