Poor

This app has been getting lots of press lately, but it isn’t really that good and the cracks are beginning to show before it’s even a “hit.”

The app doesn’t ask the user for any information regarding what they actually know or are an expert in, so the only way people get to be “experts” is through popularity alone and only over a long period of time. So the goal with the app is really just to be popular and ask or answer a lot of “questions.” There seems to be no mechanics at all for determining if the question or the answer is good, bad, or anything in between. There is merely … popular.

The reason I put “questions” in quotes in the previous paragraph is that the major flaw of the app is that it allows a user to say pretty much anything and answer pretty much anything, so in fact the majority of people using it are "using it wrong.” People use this thing as an Instagram, or a Tweet, to show off selfies, and only one out of ten of the things you see are actually questions, that have actual answers.

So .. nice idea, but a heavily flawed implementation doomed to get out of control. And once the “popular” is over and people realise that it doesn’t work as advertised it will fade away like all the rest.

Jeremy Bee about Jelly — a search engine for busy people, v1.0.1