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A friend asked if I had any feedback, and I thought I'd ask the rest of HN what you guys thought. All ideas/suggestions/comments/critique welcome!

by aditya 17y ago

jawngee 17y ago
Hmm, http://bit.ly/d9PAr8 http://bit.ly/d9PAr8
- prawn 17y ago
  For anyone curious about the link, to save you the time and trouble: it's an empty search for "sex" at HeyKiki. That will make some even more curious, but it's not really worth the click (sorry jawngee).
ashley 17y ago
It would be cool to have an option to tap into Facebook or other social networks somehow, so that there would be a higher likelihood of meeting up with someone who was a friend of a friend (or further out) rather than a complete stranger. Plus, if people on Kikiverse were coming together for a bigger event, the event could be simultaneously posted on FB. Most of my friends in the 18-29 age range and the student groups on campus used FB for planning group outings.
joe_the_user 17y ago
The concept might be appealing at first blush but I can't see this doing anything that meetup.com and craigslist don't do. I spend a fair amount of time looking around for prospective partners and teachers in a variety of activities (including martial arts). The problem isn't that people can't find each other. The problem is most people don't have much commitment to pursuing an activity on their own. If two people are in a city looking for activity partners, they'll find them. But in the Bay Area, a large metropolitan area, you'd be lucky to find a committed activity partner for anything but the absolutely most common activities. Just think, it's easier to be posting for a prospective partner than actually practicing the activity. So the number of ads one finds on meetup.com and craigslist is probably greater than the number of people you can actually get to practice with you consistently (I have two meetup groups - membership is consistently 20x attendance. Sure, if I put in a lot of effort, I might boost that but it's not a money making gig for me, so why should I? I don't mind having five people show up but this relatively low turn-outs is still a measure of the difficulty in getting people committed to an activity). Even more, just about everyone is in alternative activity class (yoga, painting, whatever) has been recruited by the teacher. Very few people actively keep a look-out for a special teacher for any extended length of time (I think I know this because I'm one of those very few people). So the model of "connecting people" doesn't work.
- dnsworks 17y ago
  There are many ways they could be improving on Craigslist: - More keywords in the posting template - a semi usable search system (this alone outclasses craigslist by 10 years) - Less spam - An API for integrating with affinity sites - Better integration with maps

A friend asked if I had any feedback, and I thought I'd ask the rest of HN what you guys thought. All ideas/suggestions/comments/critique welcome!

by aditya 17y ago

A friend asked if I had any feedback, and I thought I'd ask the rest of HN what you guys thought. All ideas/suggestions/comments/critique welcome!

jawngee 17y ago

Hmm, http://bit.ly/d9PAr8 http://bit.ly/d9PAr8

prawn 17y ago
For anyone curious about the link, to save you the time and trouble: it's an empty search for "sex" at HeyKiki. That will make some even more curious, but it's not really worth the click (sorry jawngee).

ashley 17y ago

It would be cool to have an option to tap into Facebook or other social networks somehow, so that there would be a higher likelihood of meeting up with someone who was a friend of a friend (or further out) rather than a complete stranger. Plus, if people on Kikiverse were coming together for a bigger event, the event could be simultaneously posted on FB. Most of my friends in the 18-29 age range and the student groups on campus used FB for planning group outings.

joe_the_user 17y ago

The concept might be appealing at first blush but I can't see this doing anything that meetup.com and craigslist don't do. I spend a fair amount of time looking around for prospective partners and teachers in a variety of activities (including martial arts). The problem isn't that people can't find each other. The problem is most people don't have much commitment to pursuing an activity on their own. If two people are in a city looking for activity partners, they'll find them. But in the Bay Area, a large metropolitan area, you'd be lucky to find a committed activity partner for anything but the absolutely most common activities. Just think, it's easier to be posting for a prospective partner than actually practicing the activity. So the number of ads one finds on meetup.com and craigslist is probably greater than the number of people you can actually get to practice with you consistently (I have two meetup groups - membership is consistently 20x attendance. Sure, if I put in a lot of effort, I might boost that but it's not a money making gig for me, so why should I? I don't mind having five people show up but this relatively low turn-outs is still a measure of the difficulty in getting people committed to an activity). Even more, just about everyone is in alternative activity class (yoga, painting, whatever) has been recruited by the teacher. Very few people actively keep a look-out for a special teacher for any extended length of time (I think I know this because I'm one of those very few people). So the model of "connecting people" doesn't work.

dnsworks 17y ago
There are many ways they could be improving on Craigslist: - More keywords in the posting template - a semi usable search system (this alone outclasses craigslist by 10 years) - Less spam - An API for integrating with affinity sites - Better integration with maps