6 ms·
Show HN: Throw – The new space for asking and answering questions anonymously
Hello HN community,
For the past year we’ve been working on this disruptive new thing. It’s about people, community, communication and truth.
Throw is the new space for asking and answering questions anonymously. We believe that in today’s world (both online and offline) content in communication exchanges is strongly influenced by the personas, profiles and façades people maintain/upkeep/safeguard socially, ideologically and on relationships.
From the way people post on Instagram the life they want others to believe they have, or the way people behave on thanksgiving with family, or at work, or with friends; on every social setting and interaction to some degree acting and behaving according to that setting and the people they interact with. These dynamics influence the content itself, as people don’t just respond to a question like computers do. What ends up happening is that the responder comes up with the answer by blending the possibly objective answer with feelings, setting, desires, commitments, ideologies, fears, insecurities, etc (social pressure or social agenda).
Something is missing between social media and the traditional Q&A…
Throw addresses this by creating a space free from this social agenda. Thus focusing strictly on the content exchanged and providing a safe, comfortable and unbiased space where people can ask and answer anything freely with no bias, fears or strings attached.
Not only may Throw be used for personal and private questions and answers. But the power of crowdsourcing allows for a great variety of use cases like market research, validation of content and ideas, trivia, and much more. Serious matters and also just for fun…
It’s a query marketplace which means that “throwers” (people who ask questions) pay a fee proportional to the answers they need and in turn “catchers” (who catch them and respond) get compensated. This way we guarantee every user gets as many responses as he/she needs.
As for dealing with anonymity, we have built a sophisticated moderation protocol to neutralize and quickly ban people that contribute negatively as it is a priority people feel safe and comfortable in this community.
We have worked very hard to create a delightful product and are currently very close to rolling out our app to the market.
If this is something that may be of your interest or you’d like to be one of the first to test it out, you may keep an eye for our launch and other news by subscribing to our waitlist. https://www.throwapp.com https://www.throwapp.com
Also, if you have questions there is additional information in the FAQs section on our web page that could be of help.
If you still haven't looked at our explainer video I encourage you to see it as it's quite fun and describes pretty well what we are doing. https://youtu.be/3f9RcVVpkNA https://youtu.be/3f9RcVVpkNA
Finally, we really appreciate any feedback we can get (of any kind). So if there's anything you like, don't like, or any other thought about Throw, we'd love to hear about it! You may post a comment below or through the contact section on the web page.
Be curious and dare to know!
Thank you!
- manx 5y agoThis kind of idea is actually a great use case vor virtual currencies and a market, because the given AND received value can come from a human. I once wanted to build something similar for project feedback only, but the core idea is the same. A potential problem I see with simple question/answer systems like this is, are questions about truth. Paying to get more answers only forms a majority opinion, not truth. Collaboratively working on an argument graph could be useful in this situation. Did you do anything to prevent sybil attacks in your voting system? Btw, Show HN is meant for projects you can already try, not just for waiting lists. I still signed up and want to see how it works :)
- luisamodio 5y agoHello! You do have a point about majority of opinion not necessarily being the truth. The way we see this is, when someone looks for feedback or needs to make a decision, having a diverse pool of unbiased information increases the chances of having a better understanding of the truth. Thus potentially making a petter decision. As for Sybil attacks, it will be virtually impossible to influence and target a particular question as each user is not open to choose which question to match. Throw does the thrower/catchers matching using a dynamic algorithm with many variables to determine the best matches. So we are expecting certain users to try to use several accounts to try to go around the system and we’re prepared for that. I really appreciate your candid feedback and am really hoping you love it once it’s out there!
- jitl 5y agoI tried to sign up and got “Something went wrong submitting the form”