Re:Places to Post Your Startup or Product
by cshenton on Thursday April 27, 2017 @02:18AM
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Totally disagree from the user's perspective. Every time I try and use Quora for technical reasons, the answers are almost always people selling their product and not offering a constructive solution to the problem asked.
Sure, if the problem is unsolved then it is appropriate. But more often than not, this kind of advertising drowns out actually useful answers. Not least because their 'walk the dinosaur' narrative construction disguises that they are ads until you've read the whole thing.
Re:Places to Post Your Startup or Product
by srinathrajaram on Thursday April 27, 2017 @07:22AM
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Totally agree. I have an app and I tried doing this in Quora a couple of times. I have stopped doing this. The only way you can win in quora is to answer questions that are related to your product with a simple bio against your name.
Re:Places to Post Your Startup or Product
by mdekkers on Thursday April 27, 2017 @03:19AM
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'walk the dinosaur' narrative
Never heard this term before, what does it mean?
Telling an unrelated story with the same 'punchline' at the end.
For example, say you're building an Android weather widget (for some reason). Build a profile where you're an 'Android', 'Widget', 'Weather' expert and Quora will surface this question for you to answer* : https://www.quora.com/Android-Application-Which-is-the-best-...
This targeted approach is much more valuable for your product, your time, and for the person asking the question.
*Of course it helps to actually have the best weather widget.