That's where the importance of payment software comes in.

"If we cooperate with NewPay, it will take a month or even longer to work overtime every day, from negotiation to interface docking to functional testing.

It's almost impossible to launch a paid Q&A feature in a short period of time.

As for other electronic payment software, they lack standardized interfaces, and it takes longer to connect. Said the head of the technical department responsible for Yahoo's Q&A community.

Yang Zhiyuan scratched his head, he was very upset about this situation, he knew that now that Yahoo Q&A is being launched, let alone inviting 13 Nobel Prize winners, even if 30 are invited, it is useless.

Originally, it was 10, but later 3 more were invited.

Quora is once again ahead of the curve, and the paid Q&A seems to be just a feature update, but in essence it is a disruption of the entire Internet industry.

Before Quora, there had never been an app that allowed the average person to make money just from internet services.

Similar to the model of Amazon and Ebay, it is equivalent to moving offline transactions online.

At this time, Google's ad distribution model had not yet been born.

Therefore, the impact of Quora's paid Q&A on Internet practitioners and even everyone is huge.

Ordinary people can also benefit from this, if you are a big V, then you can benefit by answering paid questions, if you are not a big V, then you need to ask a question that is attractive enough.

There is no such thing as a big V.

"We need to find a way to get ahead of Quora and not launch a feature like Quora is doing now, and we're going to copy that feature to Yahoo Q&A.

If we are chasers, not only will we not be able to gain the approval of users, but we will also be exhausted and fall into this cycle of catching up. Kevin said.

Yang Zhiyuan asked rhetorically: "The problem is that there is no paid Q&A, and users will not want to use Yahoo Q&A.

After the paid Q&A feature is launched, regular Quora users can also ask questions, but their questions need to be answered before they can be seen by all users.

However, users can also enjoy the benefits, once they are answered, they will gain exposure, and it is possible to obtain excess profits.

Paying to ask questions on Quora becomes a risk-and-benefit affair, and answering is risk-free.

This further motivates Quora users to become well-known in the community, stimulating them to have more motivation to answer questions.

I browse Quora myself, and from what I've observed, Quora has more than twice as many answers since the paid Q&A feature went live.

Whether it's user activity or user loyalty, Yahoo can't compare to Quora.

We can only follow the paid Q&A feature and learn from Newman and Bill Gates.

Of course, this doesn't mean that we need to do this all the time, our product development team needs to develop enough unique features.

We can't keep copying Quora, we have to let Quora copy us. ”

This will only be Yang Zhiyuan's own wish, and it will be difficult to achieve.

The hottest question on Quora during this period is: "What do you think of Quora+, the paid Q&A feature launched on Quora?" ”

In just one week, there were more than 5,000 answers.

"To put it simply, I'm stupid, I never thought I could play like this.

I love Quora, the setting, and the answerers and questions.

As a product manager, Quora is a great source of inspiration for me, and professionals from different fields come together to share their experience and wisdom.

Before Yahoo Q&A was launched, I was very worried about Quora, worried that users would be attracted away by Yahoo Q&A, and the number of Quora users would decrease, the quality of answers would decline, and I would fall into a vicious circle.

I don't want my favorite online community to fade. And when Yahoo Q&A advertises in various ways, Quora doesn't have any intention of fighting back, and I thought Quora didn't have a good way.

It turned out that I was wrong, Newman is worthy of being the greatest product manager in Silicon Valley, and the paid Q&A feature not only gave Yahoo a heavy blow, no one cared what Yahoo Q&A was, no one wanted to experience Yahoo Q&A.

At the same time, it also established a brand for Quora, not only Yahoo, but also other knowledge Q&A communities, and if they want to enter this field, they need to consider one question, that is, do they want to do paid Q&A?

If so, at present, only NewPay can choose the entire electronic payment, and the user base of other electronic payments is far from enough.

NewPay is also a Newman company, and whether it will cooperate with this needs to be a big question mark.

In addition, let's talk about paid Q&A separately, which makes it possible for ordinary users to make money on the Internet, and it is a steady way to make money.

I don't recommend paying to ask a question, because even if you ask a good question, it's completely unknown whether other users will think it's a good question and are willing to pay to see the answer.

Unless you really have a question and think the answer from the person being asked will help you. For example, if you have questions about your professional field or about further education and employment, you need to ask experienced people, and you can ask this kind of question.

Asking questions with the purpose of making money is completely a matter of luck, and I don't recommend it.

So how to make money steadily? Become a Quora answerer, output high-quality content steadily, and let others ask you questions.

This is a stable income, and at the same time, there is also the possibility of making a large profit.

Even without Quora, you're going to be able to export ideas on the Internet, and with Quora, you're not only getting attention, but you're also making money.

I know friends who work in finance, and before the paid Q&A came out, they valued Quora at around $1 billion, and it was worth it until it went public.

After the paid Q&A came out, the valuation directly doubled to $2 billion, and as long as Newman is willing to open an angel round of financing, they are willing to invest unconditionally.

This is the best example of how much an idea is worth by a top product manager. ”

Zhou Xin himself also answered this question:

"People often praise me for being the best product manager, but I don't think so, I just take some of the common things in life and move them to the Internet.

Quora and Paid Q&A are such products. In reality, some questions will be answered for free, and some will require you to pay to get answered.

The education that each of us receives from childhood to adulthood is actually a process of answering, and this process requires tuition fees, of course, there are also free education with relatively low costs.

You can think of Quora as free education, and then Quora+ is paid education.

We don't have a threshold on Quora+, everyone can ask questions with Quora+, and you can choose the amount you are willing to pay, from $20 to $100.

What the product manager needs to do is to implement the real-life requirements through the Internet. Real-world requirements are difficult to convert without distortion, and product managers need to optimize some unreasonable requirements to achieve them. ”

There are also in the evening

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