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[feedback needed] Receive & answer questions from your audience in one platform

Hi Indie community,

In the last years, I've grown to be a micro-influencers in the industry I work. Last week, when sending my newsletter I wanted to add a link to a space where people could submit questions and I could answer them:
→ I'm not very active on Instagram, so that was not an option;
→ I am active on LinkedIn, but there's no way to save all the questions I receive on my profile so people could go back to them;
→ My first thought was to try Ask FM, but I got a bit scared of the quality of the app/ audience when I went there.

So I thought, why not build something myself, and in the process also learn Bubble (since I've been wanting to do that for a while).

💡 The idea is simple.

As an influencer, you receive tons of questions and some of them are repeating questions. Having a place where your audience can go through all your answers saves you time, while also keeping people engaged because they have tons of knowledge to go through and a place to ask questions whenever they want.

I spent some time this week building the smallest prototype I can think of and you can see a demo account right here → https://ask-away.bubbleapps.io/profile_page/johndoe-1658618107322x359426177811241760

💬 Right now:
→ People can sign-up and create a profile (bio, links, profile pic);
→ They can share their unique link with their audience;
→ Whoever receives the link can ask a question;
→ The owner of the account gets notified over email and a new unanswered question shows up in their profile so they can answer in writing;
→ Once the owner submits an answer, the one who asked also gets notified over email so they can check it;
→ Anyone can like an answer.

🐝 Future features that would make the platform even cooler and more useful:
→ People could follow specific profiles (even if they don't have an account) and they can receive all the answers the owner of the profile gives;
→ People who receive questions could answer not only in writing but also with video/ audio recordings;
→ There should be an easy way to share the answers over social, in a nice format;
→ Have questions categorized by tabs;
→ Have analytics;
→ Have questions sorted by popularity;

Before jumping into building a landing page and launching it to do some proper research, I thought I might ask here for some feedback. If anyone here could be an end user and they think this platform is useful, or more important, it's not useful at all, I'd love to hear from you.

I've already gained so much just by building this, I'm not attached to the idea, so the feedback can be as honest as it gets.

Thanks in advance 🙏

on July 24, 2022