Show HN: "Ask and Yeah" a Twitter-alike service for Q&A with pinterest layout

4 points by peacemoon 13 years ago | 5 comments

I want to show you my new web app “Ask and Yeah”.

http://askandyeah.com

it’s like a twitter-service for questions and answers with a pinterest layout :D. People can ask wh-questions (what, where, when, why ….) using max 140 characters. Others can answer questions using max 50 characters. You can use hashtags to categorize questions (@ for person, # for thing, ! for place). For example: what did @JFK say in his famous #speech in !Berlin in 1963?

My main goal creating this app (beside learning new programming skills) is helping people quickly find questions about a specific topics when they need some. For example: teachers looking for question for their students, families looking for quizzes for a quiz-night, or people looking for fun.

Feedbacks are appreciated. Also if you have new ideas for “Ask and Yeah”, please let me know. It’s mainly my side-project, but i desire to develope it further.

Thank you An

Irishsteve 13 years ago |

I hate the fact that the register pop-up will not go away unless I sign in.

urish 13 years ago | |

I feel the same. I've registered using email, and it seems the email does not have to be validated, which just makes it pointless.

Other than that, the layout seems pretty friendly. The main issue of course will be what kind of community will build around this, there being so many question-answering forums in existence.

peacemoon 13 years ago | | |

The community for Ask&Yeah will actually not be hackers :D. My goal is a repository of questions and answers that can be used freely in education. For example, teachers can find questions about a specific person in specific place (@JFK in !Berlin), ask their students collect the answers. Ask&Yeah is still mainly a side project for me to learn about jQuery Mobile, responsive design and backend development.

If you have any better use cases for Ask&Yeah, please let me know. Thanks

peacemoon 13 years ago | | |

I myself feel the same way, that the pop-up is quite unnecessary. I actually learn it from Instagram app because i don't want unregistered people can post questions and answers because it will be quite spammy. I'm working on the solution that people can still browse the questions . The pop-up will only appear when they post questions or answers.

dawson 13 years ago |

http://askandyeah.com