Our second Bandwidth blog interview (previously we interviewed Motribe) is with Eric Edelstein and Eran Eyal of Evly. Evly launched to much hype (by the founders account) and debate late last year. Some observers felt they launched too soon and that their product was nowhere close to being public beta ready. Others believe they are onto something big and hailed it another feather in the Silicon Cape cap.
We get into the minds of the Evly founders and ask them to back up their loud and proud “˜36 million users in 18 months‘ goal, what the initial up take of Evly has been and what their future plans are, especially in terms of their product road map and venture funding.
Eric and Eran have previous experience with online startups including Springleap, a 3 year old, 25,000 user large T-Shirt community with crowd sourcing elements similar to USA pioneer Threadless. Springleap laid the groundwork for their crowd sourcing platform and served as the ultimate case study for them to derive experience from to execute on their Evly ambitions. (Although Springleap‘s tech has yet to go into the Evly platform, there are plans for its implementation in the future.)
Evly‘s core focus is to solve problems. Enabling Joe Public to setup a crowd sourcing tool to use the wisdom of crowds of solve any problem, raise funds and/or even create your own Springleap.
With the likes of Quora taking off in a big way, Evly has a steep mountain to climb that won‘t get any easier. There is the risk that users won‘t find a need to create their own crowd sourcing site if a place like Quora does it all for them already.
Even though the site is in Alpha/Beta there will need to be significant improvements in order to take on the big guys and win.
It is still very much early days for the project and we wanted to know what, when and how.
Since the intention of Evly is to crowd source opinions. We would love to hear yours in the comments. Tell us what you think! Press play below.
Previous interviews – Motribe founders Vincent Maher and Nic Haralambous
