Gatejumper Launches a New Q&A Community for People Who Build Online Businesses
Gatejumper is a new site where entrepreneurs help one another build successful online businesses through a question-and-answer format. The community is built on the same platform that has already turned Stack Overflow into the #1 Q&A site for software developers. The site is being released as a public beta today and is completely free to use.
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) November 10, 2009 -- Gatejumper, a new collaboratively edited Q&A community for people who build online businesses, launches today in public beta.
Within the Gatejumper community, people help one another build successful online businesses by answering questions on topics such as product development, Internet marketing, blogging, search engine marketing, social media, outsourcing, visual design, copywriting, website development and web technologies.
http://www.gatejumper.net
What's unique about Gatejumper? Why is this news?
The Gatejumper community launch is newsworthy for two reasons.
First, Gatejumper is a legitimate, non-scammy place for people to ask real questions about building online businesses. More and more people are pursuing self-employment by creating small online businesses and one-person companies on the web. It's not an easy road because there are so many dead ends when it comes to looking for help in building a small business online. Many of the existing forums and resources out there in the "internet marketing" genre are filled with hype and empty get-rich-quick promises.
Gatejumper is different because it is completely free, and it is edited by our most respected members. It's free to ask questions, free to answer questions and free to read. There aren't any scammy sales pitches about systems for creating an automatic income stream. Gatejumper is simply a real honest community of people who help one another create successful web-based projects.
Second, Gatejumper is one of the first sites to leverage the power of the proven platform that powers some of the most popular and innovative Q&A sites on the web, including Stack Overflow, Server Fault and Super User. The platform is called Stack Exchange and it was recently opened to beta users by Fog Creek Software, the creators of FogBugz and other popular web services. The Stack Exchange platform is a revolutionary combination of the best features taken from wikis, blogs, social voting sites (like Digg) and forums. The platform allows communities like Gatejumper to be collaboratively built and maintained by the community members.
The Stack Exchange platform will undoubtedly lead to many successful Q&A focused communities (Stack Overflow is already one of the top 1000 sites on the Internet, less than 18 months after launch). The platform is set to do for Q&A what Ning did for DIY social networks. Gatejumper is one of the first of this new generation of sites built on the platform.
Here are a couple of nice things our beta users had to say about the Gatejumper:
"There are a ton of online business forums out there, but Gatejumper just has a different (and quite frankly less scummy) feel to it. Internet marketing forums usually turn me off big time but there's something welcoming here." -Nate
"I'm addicted to this thing. I haven't participated in many forums because they're very time consuming. This is like Twitter: Fun, Fast and Effective." -- Liz
For a demo of the site
The site is currently in "quiet" beta. There is no special invitation or password required. Simply visit the site at the link below and take a tour for yourself. Feel free to ask and answer some questions (no registration is required).
http://www.gatejumper.net
About Gatejumper
Gatejumper was created by Corbett Barr, a blogger and entrepreneur who lives in San Francisco. Corbett saw a need for an open, honest place where people could get help building successful online businesses and created Gatejumper to meet that need. Corbett blogs about lifestyle design at Free Pursuits and is the author of New Economy Superstar, a book about how the power of small is shaping the future of work.
# # #
Post Comment:
Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/SW5zZS1UaGlyLVBpZ2ctU3F1YS1FbXB0LVBpZ2ctWmVybw==
Bookmark -
Del.icio.us |
Furl It |
Technorati |
Ask |
MyWeb |
Propeller |
Live Bookmarks |
Newsvine |
TailRank |
Reddit |
Slashdot |
Digg |
Stumbleupon |
Google Bookmarks |
Sphere |
Blink It |
Spurl
|
