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By signing up, you agree to our Privacy Notice and European users agree to the data transfer policy. Loading comments Ben Davis April 2, Why did Formspring shut down? Is Formspring deleted? What was the website where you could ask anonymous questions?
How can I ask anonymous questions? Are Zoom questions really anonymous? Is F3 cool really anonymous? What is F3 cool app? And even then, someone well-established like Facebook is constantly threatened by little upstarts like Snapchat and Whatsapp.
In the productivity market, you compete a lot more on product see Evernote, Dropbox. It's not as easy to get early traction, but once you get it, it's a lot more defensible too. This was my first time visiting their website. I'll not sign up for a service when they don't show me what they have. I like StackOverflow because they show their content, they allow you to use their service without signing up. You will signup when you got familiar with the service enough.
My rule of thumb is, show user the content, the value and then expect them to sign up. A video or some nice buzz words are not enough. Formspring does let you see someone's questions and answers without having an account if you go to the profile.
I guess they could highlight some accounts on the homepage, but people mostly used it to ask their friends questions, so that wouldn't really reflect the normal use of the service. I understand your frustration but I'm not sure it's relevant here. Formspring's issue certainly wasn't lack of signups; they claimed over 30 million.
And until very recently, you could even ask questions without being a registered user to the users who had this feature enabled. My guess: it was an experiment, with a limited expiry date It's one of those things that, after the initial novelty factor passed, has limited usage. Some have managed to find a use for it like answering consumer questions for certain brands but it was limited tool.
Mahn on March 15, prev next [—]. Very surprising the company didn't end up acquired by a major player, I remember it was all the rage in Good luck in your future endeavours Ade and team.
Being on the other side of it, they crushed AWS services in !!! Oh yes we did AznHisoka on March 16, prev next [—]. This is what happens when you don't win the "acquisition lottery" in the game of startups. This could've easily been the fate of Instagram, or Foodspotting.
On a side note.. I think the question here is, how could one make stats like those profitable - with 20M unique monthly visitors, it solves some particular problem not sure if it's a pain, though. Would be interesting to get a comparative retrospective on why these guys lost while Quora seems to have come from nowhere solidly into the mainstream.
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