Welcome to Typecast

What does Typecast run on?

~ Faye

It was lovingly built with Ruby on Rails.

~ Dave

When will it come out of beta?

~ Faye

It'll leave beta soon, once some of the kinks have been ironed out and it's been tested a bit further.

~ Dave

What's this page about?

~ Chief

This is an example of what a Typecast looks like - groups of people can ask and vote up interesting questions.

The host of the Typecast can choose which questions to reply to, and their answers appear automagically on everyone's screens without having to refresh the page over and over.

~ Dave

how many questions can be asked?

~ matt5409

To help prevent the Typecast host from being overwhelmed, you can only ever have two questions in the queue at any one time.

Once one of your questions has been answered (or if you delete one) you can ask a new question.

~ Dave

would the plan eventually be to allow people to whitelabel/brand it up...

~ kelvin

Potentially - I think it could be interesting to have something similar to YouTube's branded channels going. I'm planning Pro features which should make Typecast more useful to companies in particular - like a better control of branding, and (importantly) allowing a team of people to answer questions instead of just the one host.

~ Dave

Can you make typecasts private?

~ richardtvaughan

I like your thinking! You can't have private Typecasts just yet, but I'm planning on including that as a Pro feature, it sounds like it could be pretty useful.

~ Dave

Would it be possible (as a host) to invite someone else to contribute to answers. e.g. As a teacher I invite a special guest who will answer the questions my students pose? - IaninSheffield

Can you skin the typecast pages? - ajaykarwal

Does the system send me an email if someone asks me a question? - atsc

This is what an unanswered question looks like - Faye

Can I add links to my social media sites? - atsc

Hello, I'm testing Typecast - phuongtruc0705

If you're signed in, you can vote questions up or down - Faye