Show HN: Jelly – A search engine for busy people

Show HN: Jelly – A search engine for busy people(askjelly.com)

6 points by rogerfernandezg 10 years ago | 6 comments

elsen 10 years ago |

Sooooo, it's Quora/StackOverflow with anonymous mode by default and the wording "search" instead of "ask" and no gamification system?

I like it anyway, any idea how it's supposed to scale? I mean we've all seen a bunch of knowledge bases that are pretty much useless as they reach thousands of almost-similar questions.

UI is buggy: can't edit an item in the "additional list", the cursor gets moved to the end after each stroke.

davidjbain 10 years ago |

HTTPS support considering you're dealing with user accounts?

jlg23 10 years ago |

Q: "how to travel the amazon?"

A: "We got it! Sit back and relax, you’ll get answers soon."

So, because I'm a "busy" person I'm told to sit back and relax? Aawwww. thanks :)

Seriously: Is it a search engine or a frontend for mechanical turk? What exactly is the benefit of it?

Dudebird47 10 years ago |

Maybe this just happens in a mobile browser, but it seems very laggy as it misses many keystrokes.

ismail 10 years ago |

Was this not launched a while back by biz stone ex twitter? My memory is hazy

sbardle 10 years ago | |

Yes, Jelly is Biz Stone's company, and this App is a "Re-pivot" back to the earlier release. I really like Biz Stone's thinking around altruism (apparently we get the same good feeling from helping people as we do from winning money). Using technology to promote altruism is potentially revolutionary, so I follow Biz and Jelly closely.