Show HN: Ask X anything – AMA shouldn't be a one time thing

The main difference between this and a traditional AMA is that the AMA host agrees to answer questions beforehand.<p>There is no such guarantee in this product - how do you plan on combating questions that just sit idle? If questions just sit unanswered this is basically a twitter aggregate.

I think this is a reasonable idea.<p>However, you have a two sided market with a classic chicken and egg conundrum.<p>There are two solutions to this problem. The correct one is to provide value to one side of your market without requiring a match on the other.<p>You could offer celebrities a standard AMA hosting facility, if you can make your product somehow better than the alternatives. This seems hard.<p>Better is to focus on the kind of people who will visit to ask questions. Collect together links and content (preferably syndicate it) that relate to their heroes. So find all the AMA for a celebrity and throw together interview links and the best videos you can find into a fanpage. Then share your collection with fans on reddit etc. Once you have traffic, you collect questions, then contact your celebrity and ask them to do an AMA.<p>Focus on niches with dedicated fans without obvious destinations for this material. Promote. Rinse. Repeat.

People have setup Github repos with issues as ongoing AMA&#x27;s. I think a lot are forked from here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sindresorhus&#x2F;ama" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sindresorhus&#x2F;ama</a>

Doesn&#x27;t ask.fm achieve the same purpose?

Is this different from Quora because it relies on twitter so those who answer don&#x27;t need to be on the site?

This is well done but the struggle is going to be getting a critical mass. If you can get one or two well known people to commit to answering questions regularly then that will attract users. A lot of people used Whale initially to ask Justin Kan questions [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;31&#x2F;justin-kan-launches-video-qa-app-whale&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;31&#x2F;justin-kan-launches-video-...</a>

I see what you’re trying to do here and like it conceptually. (Although I’m not sure how it compares to existing venues such as Quora, etc.) Very long way to go in making it interesting&#x2F;useful from a product perspective and attracting an audience though, basically just a splash page currently.

Your biggest competition is more Quora instead of AMAs in my opinion

Minor correction: that &quot;whom&quot; should lose the M

You should add a $$ aspect on this to incentivize the Twitter users to answer for cash. YouTube does this kind of, and there&#x27;s another app that does this too I forget what it&#x27;s called though.