Biz Stone, one of the co-founders of Twitter, took to Medium Thursday to announce that his Q&A startup Jelly would be back in action.
Stone, the CEO of Jelly, launched the company in 2014 to make an app that allows users to get quick answers to their questions from other users. Real people helping each other, not search engine algorithms, is the way he pitched it.
But then, Stone appeared to back away from Jelly to work on another startup, Super, an opinion app.
But now Jelly is back to its original vision, said Stone:
For anyone who remembers Jelly, yes, we took a break but we re back 100%. Silicon Valley types might call this an, un-pivot.
Stone pitches Jelly (again) as a way to get quick answers without tapping into one s social networks:
Asking Jelly is Š— Šyou don t need to create an account to get answers. Asking Jelly is as familiar as a search engine but the engine part is the wondrous power of nice, helpful people.
It will be interesting to see if Stone s businesses become more than the interesting dabblings of a successful entrepreneur.
Jelly has a lot of competitors, the biggest being probably Google. Many of us find wading through search results for the answer to a question not that onerous, as TechCrunch pointed out:
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