General Knowledge about our Domain

Before I tell about our project's domain, I mention about our project briefly to understand the domain exactly. There are trillions of information on web and some of them are spread out all over the websites. In our project, we will try to relate these informations via our users' help. It will be a website and an Android application which people log in and create content. It also give a chance to relate some contents and rate the accuracy or clarity of the content which is shared by another person.

At first sight, it could be related with an ordinary forum page in terms of creating content and rating someone's content. However, in addition to this, we will be try to constitute a platform where people relate the content and they may connect the dots. Since it will be on internet and we will make an application, we're looking for our competitors on AppStore, Google Play Store and over internet. Obviously, All of these form a huge environment, however, the important thing is making a difference with our functionality and usability. We will give some examples after our environment.

Customers and User

I think there is no exact user profile for this project, it may be more attractive for people who

• use the Internet via their phones, tablets, or computer.
• like the idea of sharing interesting contents and following other people's sharing.
• could be interested in any idea or argument and love to research about their curiosities.
• have free time since connecting dots about a topic may take some time.

Environment

Our project can be used both as web and mobile application.

Similarities & Differences with Other Projects

Eksisozluk

Similarities

• Open contribution around a central topic (titles)
• Contributor is presented
• Voting of the contribution

Differences

• No follow-up questions & comments for a contribution
• No tagging mechanism for a contribution, they are related just by titles.
• No versioning. Users can't see the old versions.

Wikipedia

Similarities

• Open contribution around a central topic (articles)
• Articles are categorized. One article may be in many categories. (Similar to tagging)
• Versioning system: users can see previous versions of a page.

Differences

• Contributor (by default) is not presented
• Follow-up questions & discussions are not supposed to be presented to users. It is seen just a way to create 'final' content.

Stack Exchange sites & Quora

Similarities

• Open contribution around a central topic (questions)
• Voting of the contribution
• Followup questions & comments for each contribution
• Questions are tagged with more than one tag.

Differences

• Each stackexchange site has a different topic, and accepts only related questions. (Stack Overflow for programming, Server Fault for system administration etc.)
• No versioning. Users can't see the old versions.

Reddit

Similarities

• Open contribution about a central theme (subreddits)
• Voting of the contribution
• Followup questions & comments for each contribution
• Contributions are tagged.

Differences

• No versioning. Users can't see the old versions.
• No strong connection between contributions.

arguman.org

Similarities

• Open contribution of arguments
• Rating of contribution.
• Follow-up arguments using logical conjunctions. A more structured way of exploration.

Differences

• No tagging.
• No central topics.