[graypegg]

Evergreen idea (Q&A board), and congrats on the launch!

But you’re going to find it hard to get traction with it only being a native app. The magic of Stack Overflow, Quora, Reddit etc is people ask questions that are then indexed by search engines. This finds people who are knowledgeable on the topic because they’re researching something related, and it finds people asking questions about it that just asked google instead. The community comes to you.

(Over simplification of course, not everyone who answers on quora is an expert.)

Here, you’re betting on people opening your app, because they… just want to answer a question? A service like this lives or dies by how easy it is to find the people to do the free content work for you. You’ve made it a lot harder for them to do that.

[phailhaus]

This is an excellent point. I already ask questions on Google and I've never felt like I needed to pay to get a good answer. And by making it app-only, I don't even know what it looks like or what the quality of the answers are. I can't even imagine what an answer I'm willing to pay for would look like.

[luisamodio]

We do get your point and have given it ample thought.

And yes, we do plan to incorporate alternative infrastructure with less friction without having to download an app in the future.

Thank you so much for your kind words and wise point of view!