Great question. I was going to write an article based loosely around the thought that startups could have a strong mission statement of directly improving people's quality of live.
We at http://wisdio.com/ believe we do it. We want to quickly deliver answers for people's questions in a variety of topics, including professional and hobbyist knowledge. Unlike Quora, which we're being usually compared to, we don't focus on creating a hyperspace of perfect questions with some answers, but rather on matching a question with an expert able to answer it, in a smallest possible time.
We believe that this has a chance of changing the model of advertising for small businesses, for example. Instead of directly investing into ads, one can invest his time into answering the questions in his domain and lift himself as an expert. This can have an effect of building a massive trust for potential customers. We think of it as it would be a more "humane" alternative to ads. Of course this is not our only goal, rather one of possible byproducts of using our service.
The service wisdio.com is in closed alpha now and we're getting positive press here in Poland. The service is bilingual - English and Polish - so any of you can start using it right away. Most of the content so far is in Polish, though, and you won't see a mixed-language content as it wouldn't have any sense. So at the moment the English content is minimal and is created mostly by polish users using the service in both language versions.
Of course we plan to change that and gain a broader audience, as well as some recognizability outside of our country, during our CEO's trip to the US this summer.
[edit: cut some tech info, sorry for drifting from the original topic]
We at http://wisdio.com/ believe we do it. We want to quickly deliver answers for people's questions in a variety of topics, including professional and hobbyist knowledge. Unlike Quora, which we're being usually compared to, we don't focus on creating a hyperspace of perfect questions with some answers, but rather on matching a question with an expert able to answer it, in a smallest possible time.
We believe that this has a chance of changing the model of advertising for small businesses, for example. Instead of directly investing into ads, one can invest his time into answering the questions in his domain and lift himself as an expert. This can have an effect of building a massive trust for potential customers. We think of it as it would be a more "humane" alternative to ads. Of course this is not our only goal, rather one of possible byproducts of using our service.
The service wisdio.com is in closed alpha now and we're getting positive press here in Poland. The service is bilingual - English and Polish - so any of you can start using it right away. Most of the content so far is in Polish, though, and you won't see a mixed-language content as it wouldn't have any sense. So at the moment the English content is minimal and is created mostly by polish users using the service in both language versions.
Of course we plan to change that and gain a broader audience, as well as some recognizability outside of our country, during our CEO's trip to the US this summer.
[edit: cut some tech info, sorry for drifting from the original topic]