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Dronna Wants To Be Your Personal Search Engine For Crowd-Sourced Wisdom



This site is a place for people to look for references and crowd-sourced wisdom. It lets you post questions, answer them and helps you search for answers on the website. Searching on unstructured data is hard to implement but it seems to work fairly well on Dronna. Take for instance, if you are looking for a photographer in Bangalore, a quick search would give you results from other people on the network who have recommended photographers in Bangalore.


The site could be handy once the network effect kicks in. But it must get more intuitive and seed a lot more content. The challenge is to get people to realize its usefulness. That comes when more and more of them find answers and references on the network.
The popularity of Facebook groups like Put Me in Touch & Second To None have proved that people value vetted and recommended content if its coming from someone on a trusted network.


The question and answer section could be generating a lot of data for search. Besides posting a question on the network, you can notify people in your “trusted” network through e-mail as well.
Dronna was founded last year by Vikas Singh, who co-founded IgluLabs, a web serivces company before this and three others. Abhinav Raghav is a growth hacker at Dronna. Karthik S works on the UX and Navarjun works on design.

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