A number of notable people have invited the masses on Reddit to ask them any question they want, or “Ask Me Anything (AMA)”, since Reddit’s IAmA subreddit forum launched back in 2009 — from President Barack Obama, to Bill Gates, to Madonna, to Al Gore, and many others. But the free-for-all nature that makes Reddit AMAs so fascinating is not the most readable format for posterity.
Thankfully, there’s a new site called Interviewly that puts the most compelling Reddit AMAs into an easy to read interview format. Interviewly was built as a side project by Dan Drabik, a New York City-based software developer who works full-time at Kickstarter.
Drabik explains Interviewly’s purpose on the site’s about page like this:
“Reddit is great, but the format isn’t conducive to interviews (so AMA’s end up a bit ugly and hard to follow). I’ve cleaned them up a bit, added photos, ordered the questions chronologically, and broken them into categories. For now, I’ve focused on the interviews of well-known people, but that may expand in the future.”
It’s a simple and clever service built by a technologist who wanted it for himself, and figured others would probably find it useful too — no hype needed. Much like Reddit’s AMA feature, this kind of stuff is what makes the web great.
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