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I think the matchmaker idea is good. Many people have thought, "Man, I just know that those two of my friends would be great together." And I like the way you

I think the matchmaker idea is good. Many people have thought, "Man, I just know that those two of my friends would be great together." And I like the way you let people sign up their friends. However, I'm not so sure about the dating on Twitter thing. I think people want to do their dating in private. This is why dating applications on Facebook are not doing that great. People have a hard enough time plucking up the courage to ask out the object of their affection. Letting a bunch of other people know about it as well would be way too embarassing.

steveplace 18y ago
Man, I just know that those two of my friends would be great together. I'm still a little skeptical how a web app would replace 2 phone calls and a blind date. I also have no problem being proven wrong.
- vaksel 18y ago
  because many people don't like going on a blind date, its usually a very awkward experience. At least this way both people will know what the other one looks like
time_management 18y ago
Re matchmaker; hasn't this already been done? I was under the impression that such a site already existed.
- timr 18y ago
  There have been several. A few other non-matchmaking dating sites have added matchmaking as a feature, as well. (There is a matchmaker.com dating site, but I'm not actually sure that it does matchmaking, and the site blasts me with an annoying javascript chat-bot as soon as I visit, so I'm not inclined to explore further....) Fundamentally, the matchmaker idea doesn't solve the chicken-and-egg problem of dating -- you still need to have people on the site with whom to make matches. While you could try to match people with non-users, this is really just a dressed-up form of email invites, which most people have learned to tune out. It seems that in order to really crack the chicken/egg problem of a new dating site, one needs to provide a value that is independent of the dating problem itself.

steveplace 18y ago

Man, I just know that those two of my friends would be great together. I'm still a little skeptical how a web app would replace 2 phone calls and a blind date. I also have no problem being proven wrong.

vaksel 18y ago
because many people don't like going on a blind date, its usually a very awkward experience. At least this way both people will know what the other one looks like

time_management 18y ago

Re matchmaker; hasn't this already been done? I was under the impression that such a site already existed.

timr 18y ago
There have been several. A few other non-matchmaking dating sites have added matchmaking as a feature, as well. (There is a matchmaker.com dating site, but I'm not actually sure that it does matchmaking, and the site blasts me with an annoying javascript chat-bot as soon as I visit, so I'm not inclined to explore further....) Fundamentally, the matchmaker idea doesn't solve the chicken-and-egg problem of dating -- you still need to have people on the site with whom to make matches. While you could try to match people with non-users, this is really just a dressed-up form of email invites, which most people have learned to tune out. It seems that in order to really crack the chicken/egg problem of a new dating site, one needs to provide a value that is independent of the dating problem itself.