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Dating site with only one man, and a 10k matching reward

26 points by kabuks 16y ago

kaisdavis 16y ago
Great site and I immediately sent it to a bunch of friends. It's be great if the site had some embedded mechanisms to share (Tweet, Email, 'Like') it so, you know, it was easier for more people to see it. This is brilliant. Good luck, chas.
citricsquid 16y ago
He deserves to be single forever for using Flash for this site... maybe. But seriously why Flash?
- CodeMage 16y ago
  Because it's easy to make good-looking things in Flash. Yes, I know that Flash is bad. But you asked the question and that's the answer.
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- kaisdavis 16y ago
  it's a wix site - simple, online sites using flash. The guy is smart - he's using a simple tool that gets the job done, not spending his time writing a custom CMS. That's a skill that I need to get better at: pick the tool that gets the job done _and_ takes the least amount of time. Then go do other things.
wz 16y ago
Awesome. Like a bird of paradise, your dance has to be unique. Online dating isn't.
personalcompute 16y ago
He should add a deal so that whoever introduces the person who introduces him to his wife to the hookchasup site gets a small reward as well. So if I tell my friend about hookchasup and my friend then precedes to introduce him to his wife, I would get a small reward as well. This has been demonstrated successful by the MIT balloon experiment team (http://techcrunch.com/2009/12/05/how-to-find-those-red-balloons/ http://techcrunch.com/2009/12/05/how-to-find-those-red-ballo...)
- zalew 16y ago
  or go further and implement the MLM model, his hookup could grow another Amway!
d4ft 16y ago
About.me for dating + reward = profit. In all seriousness, I could see this becoming a model that, if done right, could be quite profitable for people looking for something to start.
- kaisdavis 16y ago
  That's a sweet idea, but there's a tipping point where the value of being the Nth+1 person on the service doesn't increase your chances of being noticed. Now, make it a consulting service where people pay you $1000 $5,000 for website / online-marketing / PR services to help land a date? Add in scarcity? That's a cool idea.

26 points by kabuks 16y ago

Great site and I immediately sent it to a bunch of friends. It's be great if the site had some embedded mechanisms to share (Tweet, Email, 'Like') it so, you know, it was easier for more people to see it. This is brilliant. Good luck, chas.

citricsquid 16y ago

He deserves to be single forever for using Flash for this site... maybe. But seriously why Flash?

CodeMage 16y ago
Because it's easy to make good-looking things in Flash. Yes, I know that Flash is bad. But you asked the question and that's the answer.
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kaisdavis 16y ago
it's a wix site - simple, online sites using flash. The guy is smart - he's using a simple tool that gets the job done, not spending his time writing a custom CMS. That's a skill that I need to get better at: pick the tool that gets the job done _and_ takes the least amount of time. Then go do other things.

wz 16y ago

Awesome. Like a bird of paradise, your dance has to be unique. Online dating isn't.

personalcompute 16y ago

He should add a deal so that whoever introduces the person who introduces him to his wife to the hookchasup site gets a small reward as well. So if I tell my friend about hookchasup and my friend then precedes to introduce him to his wife, I would get a small reward as well. This has been demonstrated successful by the MIT balloon experiment team (http://techcrunch.com/2009/12/05/how-to-find-those-red-balloons/ http://techcrunch.com/2009/12/05/how-to-find-those-red-ballo...)

zalew 16y ago
or go further and implement the MLM model, his hookup could grow another Amway!

d4ft 16y ago

About.me for dating + reward = profit. In all seriousness, I could see this becoming a model that, if done right, could be quite profitable for people looking for something to start.

kaisdavis 16y ago
That's a sweet idea, but there's a tipping point where the value of being the Nth+1 person on the service doesn't increase your chances of being noticed. Now, make it a consulting service where people pay you $1000 $5,000 for website / online-marketing / PR services to help land a date? Add in scarcity? That's a cool idea.