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Show HN: Jelly – A search engine for busy people (askjelly.com)
6 points by rogerfernandezg 3706 days ago
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Sooooo, it's Quora/StackOverflow with anonymous mode by default and the wording "search" instead of "ask" and no gamification system?

I like it anyway, any idea how it's supposed to scale? I mean we've all seen a bunch of knowledge bases that are pretty much useless as they reach thousands of almost-similar questions.

UI is buggy: can't edit an item in the "additional list", the cursor gets moved to the end after each stroke.

HTTPS support considering you're dealing with user accounts?
oO

Q: "how to travel the amazon?"

A: "We got it! Sit back and relax, you’ll get answers soon."

So, because I'm a "busy" person I'm told to sit back and relax? Aawwww. thanks :)

Seriously: Is it a search engine or a frontend for mechanical turk? What exactly is the benefit of it?

Maybe this just happens in a mobile browser, but it seems very laggy as it misses many keystrokes.
Was this not launched a while back by biz stone ex twitter? My memory is hazy
Yes, Jelly is Biz Stone's company, and this App is a "Re-pivot" back to the earlier release. I really like Biz Stone's thinking around altruism (apparently we get the same good feeling from helping people as we do from winning money). Using technology to promote altruism is potentially revolutionary, so I follow Biz and Jelly closely.