Maxime Dupuy and Matthieu Riff launched the "Who thinks what?"
On this, every day, a major topical question is asked.
With a press review made available to form your opinion before answering.
"We select articles where different editorial choices have been made so that several facets of the same theme are addressed", specifies Maxime Dupuy, who also manages the "Info" section of the application with his partner.
There, every day, the news is treated "in a simple and synthetic way".
"Are there too many candidates for the presidential election", "Do you think we should continue to build wind turbines" or even "Is the support of Marion Maréchal crucial for Eric Zemmour"... Here is the type of questions asked every day to users of the "Who thinks what" (QPQ) application.
The latter was launched in early January “but we have been working on it since October”, specifies its co-founder Maxime Dupuy.
The student at SKEMA Business School in Lille came up with the idea with one of his classmates, Matthieu Riff.
Why ?
“Because we are passionate about politics and we like to debate.
Except that we did not find this possibility too much on current social networks, ”replies the native of Strasbourg, 23 years old.
“Algorithms often show us what we like to see and we find ourselves trapped in opinion bubbles.
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With QPQ, the duo of young entrepreneurs hopes above all that users “form their opinion”.
For this, they have therefore chosen to ask a big question every day, with a vote, but also and above all a press review offered in parallel in order to learn about the subject.
Three links to news sites, such as
20 Minutes
sometimes, are offered.
"We select articles where different editorial choices have been made so that several facets of the same theme are addressed", specifies Maxime Dupuy, who also manages the "Info" section of the application with his partner.
There, every day, the news is treated "in a simple and synthetic way".
Finally, the 12 candidates for the presidential election are all entitled to a short biography and the emblematic measures of their campaign program.
Not just politics
In short, “Who thinks what” is currently very political.
Definitively ?
“Not at all”, defends Maxime Dupuy.
“It's true that we wanted to surf this election period to attract people, but the idea, in the long term, is to talk about everything.
Sport, ecology, economy... That everyone can find their way around according to their sources of interest and that the app forms a real community of opinions"
The two students thus see further: they hope that in the long term, "institutions or companies can come and ask their questions".
The interest would obviously be financial, but not only.
“If this is the case, users will be able to see that their vote has an impact on concrete achievements, everyone can win”, advocates the one who is destined for a career in “project management”
Maybe this one, if the adventure lasts.
The duo had already tried their luck with the “Discuss” application but “it did not find its audience”.
“QPQ” is more successful and has, at the beginning of March, “about 5,000 users, the figure we had set”.
“We would like to be 15,000 within two to three months and at the beginning of April, we plan to raise funds in order to recruit a developer, do marketing, etc.
says Maxime Dupuy, who designed everything with Matthieu Riff from the start.
Without, for the moment, showing the slightest weariness despite the workload that comes on top of the lessons.
“We never get tired, we are born entrepreneurs!
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