(I used to work at Quora, my opinions your own) It's a bit early to say, but I don't think this directly competes with Quora. There have already been many peer

(I used to work at Quora, my opinions your own) It's a bit early to say, but I don't think this directly competes with Quora. There have already been many peer-to-peer connecting Q&A services like Aardvark and expert networks like Pearl, as well as lighter social friend/friend of friend Q&A like Jelly. What Quora purports to provide that these don't is a (mostly) permanent corpus of knowledge that is available later. One to one Q&A is definitely great for getting you an answer to a specific question now, but it doesn't give you a broad picture for things that aren't as laser focused. A lot of the "personal experience" content on Quora is pretty good, like what it was like to be in the WTC when 9/11 happened. This is of course not the kind of thing an individual needs to connect to another individual to find out (though it's still interesting), so I think that Fountain (the app referred to in the article) will have its own niche that is very distinct from Quora's. Things like Fountain and Pearl are useful for individual experiences, and experts will make decent money if the platforms are successful, but what you end up with is the monetization of repetitive questions, rather than a resource where you can access a variety of answers for questions. They tend to be a place people go to ask specific legal and medical questions, as well as things like home care/maintenance, but outside those fields they can be a lot less useful.