Quora meets SMS - Cloudy, social answers through your friends.
askcloudy.com
askcloudy.com
That said, I know Quora is the thing right now, but how does asking a question and getting yes/no from your friends have anything to do with Quora? Yes this is a Q & A service but Quora isn't a yes/no type of Q&A service. Also - this is amongst your friends, whearas Quora's popularity is being driven by the answers from 'experts/insiders/etc' to questions from 'outsiders.'
I don't want to just assume the headline is purposely click-bait so I'll just ask...how do you see this as Quora meets SMS?
Love the idea, will look for an opportunity to try it out!
first, the app is really cool. love the idea.
personally, I'd lose the head shots and job titles from your about page. instead, tell us why you created this, how you got started, etc.
what are you doing with this data? do you have a privacy policy? this probably won't stop your growth, but it might encourage adoption if you let people know you aren't evil.
We have a privacy policy, but I'm considering writing a more prominent, "human-readable" version of it. We definitely want to make people feel comfortable and reassure them that we aren't evil.
Would you care to answer that here? I assume you do have some kind of revenue model in mind, but charliekim and I can't be the only people who think that people would pay to use this app...
In order to not be eaten alive by SMS costs, we are working with 4INFO to include short ads at the bottom of texts sent to the SMS users (users who receive and reply to questions by SMS, but don't have the app) who received the highest number of texts over the last week. Once we hit a certain number of ads included per month, we will actually break even on SMS costs, all while only showing SMS ads to a small subset of users.
Beyond SMS, we have monetization plans for the app itself that will come a bit further down the road.
Can you elaborate anymore on your ideas in that realm?
EDIT: Figured some feedback would actually be more helpful for ya. As somebody else mentioned, may want to change the "Learn more" link to go to something that actually tells me more about what Cloudy is and examples of how I could use it. And also as mentioned, definitely show some other screens in the app other than the home screen. This is what will sell me more on trying the app. (although I'm curious enough as it is to run upstairs now, grab my phone, and download, heh.)
As for monetization, we're considering some kind of "sponsored questions" offering that could be used for both advertising and market research purposes.