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Show HN: Early version of a Speed Dating Community
- dido2k 8y agoI want to login with my own email and pass. Login with FB and/or Linked In is not an option for me.
- johnnyb00y 8y agoI dislike social profiles like the next person and would like a better way of verifying... I just had an idea whilst thinking about how I was going to respond to this -- perhaps I could do e-mail signup but instead verify the user through the clearbit/fullcontact api. Need to look into that
- Rjevski 8y agoHow is a Facebook or LinkedIn account considered “verification” when spammers routinely use thousands of fake accounts to astroturf fraudulent pages & ads? Surely this means any malicious actor targeting your platform can do the same.
- wangii 8y agoit's not going to fly. I think the problem of this kind of ideas is that dating is actually a by product of social interactions, not suitable for engineering.
- klez 8y agoYeah, Tinder, OkCupid, Meetic etc. never worked, right?
- noso 8y agoIt may not fly or it may rocket! Either way, encouragement costs nothing. I wish them all the success. Good luck!
- johnnyb00y 8y agoThanks!
- massens 8y agoLooks very cool! :)
- johnnyb00y 8y agoMuch appreciated, thanks alot
- osrec 8y agoInteresting concept. How do you aim to verify people?
- johnnyb00y 8y agoCurrently, * unless someone has a better idea * it would be through manually checking any social profiles including git profiles. The aim is not to turn it into a 'club' but just be selective enough that there are alot of like-minded individuals.
- mxwsn 8y agoA comment on design: I'd recommend removing the large buttons for "How it Works" and "Queue up" on the landing image and instead using some visual indicator to scroll down. Scrolling down vs. clicking buttons (that just automatically scroll you down) seems redundant to me.
- klez 8y agoI saw this trend recently on various websites. Maybe it's born out of (unjustified?) fear that people don't scroll below the fold?
- johnnyb00y 8y agoPossibly unjustified fear, that is why the current website has it at the moment...
- amelius 8y agoSounds a bit like chat-roulette.
- Trufa 8y agoYeah, the real effort is this site not changing into that.
- amelius 8y agoThe problem is that it can become insincere very quickly. Like when a group of people decides to have some fun by laughing at other people who are hoping for a date. This could happen even on a "genuine" account, because intentions of people can change. And people don't act the same when alone versus with friends.
- johnnyb00y 8y agoI agree, but I doubt they would pay a fee just to laugh at others looking for a date...
- gremlinsinc 8y agoOr pervs getting on naked, and totally not expecting it...
- werber 8y agoThe queue up button does nothing on my phone. iPhone x, 11.4 in Safari
- johnnyb00y 8y agojust fixed it, thanks for that!
- hidiegomariani 8y agoqueue up does not work
- johnnyb00y 8y agojust fixed it, thanks for that!
- 456hdsaq234g 8y agoFolks are getting laid for free via Tinder and others. Why would anyone pay $10/month for a smaller pool of candidates?
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- tome 8y agoMaybe not everyone wants to get laid.
- luckman212 8y agoMaybe, but anyone who would elect to use a "speed dating" app probably does.
- tome 8y agoHmm, well the tag line is "Quality interactions, real relationships" so I assumed that it wasn't competing with Tinder.
- chongli 8y agoThe point of speed dating is to meet a lot of people quickly in the hope that you'll find someone who has chemistry with you. It's about personality, not sex.
- personlurking 8y agoHere's my idea for an AI-based speed dating site/app. You fill in the basics (about you and your preferences), plus 5 things that are important to you in life, plus 1-2 things you want to absolutely avoid (ex, smokers), your availability and that's it. In the background, the AI matches you and sets you up for a quick coffee date at a location that's not far from either person. Twist: every single person actively looking for a relationship in each particular city must be on the site (aside from self-reporting, I haven't figured out how this will be done). Essentially, you don't peruse the app, you just receive when & where notifications and then go have a 5-minute coffee to see if you have chemistry, which no current app can actually tell you.
- fsargent 8y agoThe problem with dating isn't lack of meeting people, it's lack of heuristics. Speed dating just makes it faster to judge, but it doesn't actually do any work for you. One of the big benefits to OkCupid is that the heuristics are relatively good. Improve on that, and you're golden.
- draugadrotten 8y agoone of the problems with good heuristics is that almost all the desire is sent towards the 9's and 10's. Yet obviously most of the site users are 8 or less. So the 9-10s gets swamped, and leave early. The remaining users gets bored because nobody replies. The problem here is not that heuristics of finding "your best match" is bad. It is quite easy to figure out who is attractive and matches you. The problem is that most people wants to trade up, and few people (on dating sites) have the desire to end up with someone their own score. Fewer yet wants to date someone less attractive. Hence the dating market ends up being a sort mechanism which works poorly because none of the sorted numbers wants to be where they are. OkCupid had some great blog articles about the statistics behind this unbalanced matching phenomenon. Read them.
- charlesdm 8y agoNot the dating market, just the online dating market People date up and down all the time, and attraction isn't just limited to good looks. People are attracted to different things in an individual (good looks, ability, wealth, intellect, power or status, etc) -- it's just that those don't always show well on dating profiles. They are much easier to spot in the real world.
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- tome 8y agoDoes anyone know of any other analysis of the dynamics of online dating sites besides the OKCupid ones?
- xor1 8y agoI really like this concept OP. I think your biggest non-technical hurdle is going to be dealing with the classic issue of there simply being significantly less women than men. I'm curious to know how you plan to approach that after you introduce a proper business model.
- lev99 8y agoI'd focus heavily on hotdog detection, lewd language detection, and other ways of terminating calls (and banning users) that break a code of conduct in the calls.
- probablyfiction 8y agoFormer speed dating entrepreneur here. In person, at least, women are much more open to the idea of speed dating than men. Much of our marketing revolved around how to appeal to and attract men to our events.
- xor1 8y agoInteresting, I'm curious to know what kind of speeddating events/services/apps are out there. I've never used any.
- choicenotchance 8y agoLow tier Omegle clone.
- foobaw 8y agoHow about a company that facilitates physical speed dating meetings? That'd target an older demographic.