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Comment by shazad | Hacker News Reader

We wanted to a create an interesting space where people can find out about other users on Hacker News. Let us know your thoughts!

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I like it and I hope more 'interesting' people will register soon; I think I should say that before I start whining.

Why didn't you put this (or some sort of similar) information on the landing page? If I was randomly sent link to your site (ie. without context such as HN comments or relatively high score) I would have no idea what it is, and leave forever.

Also I don't like the bar saying ASKOLO on the top - there is no content on it, and it just takes precious vertical space from my small laptop screen. I already know where am I, no need to repeat that. The second bar, nagging me to signup or login is kind of distraction too.

Also, I hope for some filtering features for questions (hide unanswered, hide comments, hide answers - so I can quickly skim only through the questions - I think this could be handy when there is more content on the site).

Hey rednum, thanks for the feedback. You can do some basic filtering on both the newsfeed and the individual page if you look right above the questions section. It's set to show all by default, but I think we can probably do a better job of making that more prominent.

some interesting profiles - http://askolo.com/alexis http://askolo.com/harj http://askolo.com/patio11 http://askolo.com/iamwil http://askolo.com/edw519 http://askolo.com/aaroniba

I might as well ask the obvious question: what separates Askolo from Quora?

Thanks for checking it out. The key difference isn't so much what you can't do with Quora, but rather what you don't do. People don't use Quora as a place to ask specific people questions.

We're interested in optimizing Q&A around thought leaders and experts. Quora works well for finding the right answer to a question - we're interested in finding out a diversity of opinions.

good answer. I actually would rather ask specific question to a specific person trying to capture their brain, rather than shooting my question into the ocean of internet. if you execute properly, this may be big. think email versus twitter - twitter wins on so many level because people can always "let go" conversation and never been spammed with questions, versus email when once given out, a popular individual would have to quickly change it before drowning in spa,. this way if some tech celeb (or any celeb in that matter) is willing to answer questions, he/she may signup to your site and say "hey im ready to answer, ask me a questions".

best luck to you!

"We're interested in optimizing Q&A around thought leaders and experts. Quora works well for finding the right answer to a question - we're interested in finding out a diversity of opinions." What you said there means everything to me and would have convinced me to spend more than 10 seconds on your site. What you said on your about page means nothing to me. "Askolo wants to create a space where knowledge is easily accessible. Users can use their Askolo accounts to find out more about others and to share their thoughts."

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