Great idea! Keyboard shortcuts for the interface would be really nice, since I end up "nexting" a lot of questions before I tend to find one I want to answer.
I especially like your localisation efforts! The unique URL's fitting for each language are amazing. Do you feel this is a big boon to spread fast? Are you yourself a good speaker of those languages, or did you ask external help for the translations/domain name suggestions?
To be honest, the German site (dufragst.es) reads exactly like that ;-) You might want to look into getting some translation help, some parts of the site sound quite unnatural.
I had a lot of rhetorical questions too. Also, Kevin's solution is not 100% waterproof - just looked through some "negative reviews" for ServInt and they weren't exactly negative. Maybe you could build a bayesian filter of some kind? (I'm not sure how Kevin filtered his reviews exactly?)
Maybe he could add a third button, "Not a question", classify each question into "answerable question" and "not a question" categories (according to which button the user clicks) and see which category new questions are classified into using a naive bayes classifier? I think it could work quite well
Kevin here. No, it's not perfect and never will be. I definitely use a bayesian classifier in our process among other things.
That said, if you see mistakes, please flag them! My system does get smarter with more data, so when people flag mistakes for us to correct, it makes a difference both immediately and in the long run.
If you have any other thoughts/critiques/ideas please feel free to let me know :)
Both the idea, and how fast it all came together, is awesome. Great job!
I wonder what twitter's reaction will be if this keeps growing, considering all the recent talk about them being hostile towards people making the most out of their API.
Lady luck herself has bestowed this opportunity upon you.
I concur the localisation efforts are fantastic.
To keep traffic up, I would investigate turning each question and answer into a index-able page. So other people who Google the same questions might find luck in the twitter dialogue.
really liked it. just one thing: i'm not a native english speaker, so it takes me a little more time to tweet an answer. would be nice to have the timer to halt when typing...
I got 5 questions in a row like 'Do you want to meet there at that time?' which were direct twitter messages to specific people. This needs more filtering as others have commented.
nice to see this idea being picked up again. I had a similar idea quite a while ago (early 2010), although I didn't build it on top of the twitter API (which in retrospect might have been better). http://askcue.com is still online and you can anonymously ask questions. btw. it seems that the site doesn't work atm.
I really like the idea. 30 seconds is intense and turns it into a game. A way to "cheat" is to hit reply and if you aren't signed into Twitter a window pops up with whatever you have typed in so far and gives you an infinite amount of time to finish your response.
I answered 1/1 questions and it was about vibrato when singing. Now I'm having a discussion about it. Happy to help this person learn to improve their technique.
nice idea but right now the implementation is full of fail. I got 5 questions, none of which I could answer (directed at their friends / rhetorical) and then I got asked if "this was fun" and to tweet about youasked.it
Please make sure that the user actually answers a single question before asking them to tell their friends how much fun they're having.
So how did you build it? What programming language, what tools? Where hosted? This is a very impressive project for only one day of work, so give us the details.
Still, I'd really recommend ditching the ad at the bottom and focusing on perhaps a single call-to-action, like following on Twitter or liking on Facebook. I know it's tempting to try and monetize something like this but overall the ads and share buttons just kind of junk it up.
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You need to combine it with some NLP like Kevin's doing here: http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/
That said, if you see mistakes, please flag them! My system does get smarter with more data, so when people flag mistakes for us to correct, it makes a difference both immediately and in the long run.
If you have any other thoughts/critiques/ideas please feel free to let me know :)
I wonder what twitter's reaction will be if this keeps growing, considering all the recent talk about them being hostile towards people making the most out of their API.
I concur the localisation efforts are fantastic.
To keep traffic up, I would investigate turning each question and answer into a index-able page. So other people who Google the same questions might find luck in the twitter dialogue.
Good luck!
It bugs me to see this on TechCrunch and HN when there are great submissions that did not get such opportunity (example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4804373).
Listeners/repliers would subscribe those.
i didn't come across one serious question though. just a bunch of random nonsense 'where do we go when we die??' 'should i go to sleep???' etc
http://youasked.it/
i have gotten two so far:
'shut up' and 'thank you!'
I answered 1/1 questions and it was about vibrato when singing. Now I'm having a discussion about it. Happy to help this person learn to improve their technique.
Please make sure that the user actually answers a single question before asking them to tell their friends how much fun they're having.
Still, I'd really recommend ditching the ad at the bottom and focusing on perhaps a single call-to-action, like following on Twitter or liking on Facebook. I know it's tempting to try and monetize something like this but overall the ads and share buttons just kind of junk it up.