My friend Colin sent me a link to this video where Joel Spolsky talks about StackOverflow.
A lot of people have asked me why anyone would use our site when questions will be answered for free on StackOverflow. I usually respond by saying “WP Questions is not a question and answer site, rather, it is [...]
Archive for September 2010
WP Questions is a micro-consulting site
What new features would you like?
Please consider this an open thread for making suggestions. Post a comment.
Once again, we are opening up our sites
You will notice that you can now read a question, and the answers, even though you are not logged in. We started requiring people to log in about 5 weeks ago, and Google immediately punished us by cutting our traffic by 15%. Our thought was that more people would sign up, if they had [...]
We are looking for beta-testers who want to start a site like WP Questions
[UPDATE: we now have a waiting list.]
Every month we get 3 or 4 emails where people ask if we would sell them the software that powers WP Questions. A lot of people want to start sites similar to ours.
We’ve thought about this and decided that we would like to offer our software as a [...]
Apologies about all the email
A bug arose on our sites. We tracked it to that portion of the code that tried to ping Twitter’s API. Two weeks ago Twitter changed how it allows authentication. The portion of our code that pings Twitter began to fail, and began to sabotage everything else on the site – including the ability of [...]
Ashwin Chandrasekaran writes about WP Questions
Ashwin Chandrasekaran sums up WP Questions with this list:
How it Works?
The way it works is simple.
Both Askers and Experts must be registered with the Community
Askers create a question and suitably price it, based on the complexity
Typically the question runs for 3 days or end as soon as the best answer is chosen by the Asker
Experts [...]
My new, personal website
On a completely personal note, I have just started a new personal weblog. I will be writing about business, tech, startups and all the other subjects that interest me.
PlanetOzh: WP Questions has really found its audience
PlanetOzh gives a positive review of WP Questions:
Over the recent months, a site that can make you big money has really found its audience, from a clever promising idea to an active community of users. I’ve already mentioned it when it started, and I mentioning it again now because it is getting big: WP [...]
