My experience with quora is probably like most peoples.
- You find out about quora
- read some interesting questions and get some answers that provide new insight and mental models that update how you think
- find some interesting and famous people replying to questions taht you read.
- Day 2 find out that there are just only so many interesting questions that can be asked and the site doesn't have alot to bring you back.
- after a week, realize that this is a site that you'd want just a monthly summary of interesting questions and answers to read.
- after a few months realize that even that is too much as there just isn't enough interesting content being generated to keep you interested.
You start to realize that most questions aren't really that interesting.
one of the typical ones was "what's something that's cool for rich people to do but trashy for poor people to do?" and you realize very quickly that the answer is a very basic, everything.
And all the answers boil down to, the poor person does these things because they have to but the rich person can do these things and then go back to being rich.
"Wear teh same clothes for a week". If you're rich, you're toughening up and becoming stoic, if you're poor its because you have no choice.
The difference is always the rich person has a choice and can always just revert back to being rich at any time.
It's not a bad site, but its the perfect example of a site that should be 4-5 people maintaining and running from an add supported boot strapped model.
If that site ever takes venture capital they'd be in trouble as there isn't a revenue model that makes sense for such a small and niche site that I can see. They'd have to start locking answers behind a paywall or making certain "luminaries" answers pay only which would break the site.
My experience with quora is probably like most peoples.
- You find out about quora
- read some interesting questions and get some answers that provide new insight and mental models that update how you think
- find some interesting and famous people replying to questions taht you read.
- Day 2 find out that there are just only so many interesting questions that can be asked and the site doesn't have alot to bring you back.
- after a week, realize that this is a site that you'd want just a monthly summary of interesting questions and answers to read.
- after a few months realize that even that is too much as there just isn't enough interesting content being generated to keep you interested.
You start to realize that most questions aren't really that interesting.
one of the typical ones was "what's something that's cool for rich people to do but trashy for poor people to do?" and you realize very quickly that the answer is a very basic, everything.
And all the answers boil down to, the poor person does these things because they have to but the rich person can do these things and then go back to being rich.
"Wear teh same clothes for a week". If you're rich, you're toughening up and becoming stoic, if you're poor its because you have no choice.
The difference is always the rich person has a choice and can always just revert back to being rich at any time.
It's not a bad site, but its the perfect example of a site that should be 4-5 people maintaining and running from an add supported boot strapped model.
If that site ever takes venture capital they'd be in trouble as there isn't a revenue model that makes sense for such a small and niche site that I can see. They'd have to start locking answers behind a paywall or making certain "luminaries" answers pay only which would break the site.