Quora's business model is advertising. It does take a huge number of users to be profitable, though. Quora has 190 million monthly active users and it is valued at $1.9 billion. What that means is that each active monthly user is worth about $10 to Quora. Quora did not have a revenue stream in place for years. It survived on venture capital. The capital kept coming in because growth was very strong.
What Musing needs to do is grow like crazy. That can't happen without people knowing about it. Quora has upvoted about 600 users in the last month. What you can earn by answering questions on Quora is totally ridiculous by real world standards. There are millions of people out there cranking out high-quality answers day in day out for absolutely no reward whatsoever! Those people should be told there is a platform where you can earn real money, even now that the price of STEEM is at its lowest for a year. If only the Quorans knew there was a platform that paid for what they do for free ... For some struggling student of the arts or humanities, using their own expertise to answer questions on Musing and earning real money while at it would be a dream come true.
Hey, @anonsteve.
Was this meant to be an answer? I don't want to ignore it if it's supposed to be a reply to me, but it just seems like it would do well as answer to the question.
Regardless, I can't disagree with any of the points, even if I'm not in favor of advertising in its current form on any of the dApps. But most definitely—Musing needs to grow, and those answering on Quora need to know there's a place they can go to get compensated for their work.
It was a reply to you. Yeah, it would be great for Quorans to know there is a platform like this where they can earn. That would be great for Musing but it would mean the end of easy earnings for most of us. The best answers on Quora tend to be much better simply because the userbase is hundreds of thousands of times larger.