Take Jelly -- Stone’s Q&A app that has failed to take off since its birth in early 2014.
But the guy that helped give the world Twitter and Medium isn’t giving up on his latest venture.
Rather, to jumpstart Jelly, Stone and his team are “returning to [their] original vision with renewed enthusiasm and an entirely new approach,” Biz explains in a new Medium post.
With Jelly, however, Stone and company are still trying to crack a problem that has stumped some of the best minds in Silicon Valley: How to scale a free Q&A service without sacrificing quality or a strong human component.
But Jelly was never intended to be a straightforward Q&A platform. To the contrary, it was designed as a search engine where users could follow social media friends, and connect through social circles to discover relevant information.
Going forward, “We have an audacious grand plan -- the complete reimagining of how people get answers to everyday stuff,” according to Stone.
To do that, “Jelly learns which people know what things and it learns what your question is about,” Stone explains. “Then, it pairs your question with people who are most likely able to help you.”
Not yet ready for prime time, the new Jelly app is currently limited to a closed beta. Stone promises to launch it more broadly in the near future, at which point we’ll see whether the golden boy of Silicon Valley still has his magic touch.