My biggest problem with Quora is that the answers tend to be from people that aren't relevant. If you are asking about single-founder startups, why are the top answers from 2-founder startups? There is lots of information out there on 2-founder startups, written by co-founders. I went to that thread looking for first-hand accounts from a single-founder, someone who the question was actually intended for.
This problem also came up the other day in the 'what skills do self-taught programmers lack'. I am a self-taught programmer and I don't care how many engineers you have managed, you can never actually understand what skills I lack. That thread should have been a bunch of auto-didacts explaining what they've had problems with over the years. Instead it read as a bunch of cs majors listing out the cs curricula from their schools.
After reading through all the answers, I've come to the conclusion that Quora is the most vapid, rockstar oriented community ever. To everyone who claims the HN community is dying, go read quora. It's all about me-too posts (which is evidenced by the fact that this post consists of 40 PG regurgitations and ~5 great answers), where the biggest rockstars get voted up the highest. At least HN still has deep, contextual discussion.
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My biggest problem with Quora is that the answers tend to be from people that aren't relevant. If you are asking about single-founder startups, why are the top answers from 2-founder startups? There is lots of information out there on 2-founder startups, written by co-founders. I went to that thread looking for first-hand accounts from a single-founder, someone who the question was actually intended for.
This problem also came up the other day in the 'what skills do self-taught programmers lack'. I am a self-taught programmer and I don't care how many engineers you have managed, you can never actually understand what skills I lack. That thread should have been a bunch of auto-didacts explaining what they've had problems with over the years. Instead it read as a bunch of cs majors listing out the cs curricula from their schools.
After reading through all the answers, I've come to the conclusion that Quora is the most vapid, rockstar oriented community ever. To everyone who claims the HN community is dying, go read quora. It's all about me-too posts (which is evidenced by the fact that this post consists of 40 PG regurgitations and ~5 great answers), where the biggest rockstars get voted up the highest. At least HN still has deep, contextual discussion.