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What you are describing sounds remarkably similar to the dating videos concept from the 1980's. I guess all that is old becomes new again! (Did a quick search
by Logans_Run 4y ago
What you are describing sounds remarkably similar to the dating videos concept from the 1980's. I guess all that is old becomes new again!
(Did a quick search that turned up two low quality links to illustrate what I mean)
https://www.thrillist.com/sex-dating/nation/lessons-learned-from-the-vhs-dating-video https://www.thrillist.com/sex-dating/nation/lessons-learned-...
https://www.businessinsider.com/found-footage-awkward-80s-video-dating-2015-12?op=1&r=US&IR=T https://www.businessinsider.com/found-footage-awkward-80s-vi...
- CuriouslyC 4y agoThe similarities are only superficial though. That is like a bunch of video job interviews, what I'm describing is more like a virtual pub where you can preferentially join conversations with other singles who share similar interests.
- GloriousKoji 4y agoSounds like a video chat version of clubhouse. On paper it looked great but devolved into people mostly trying to build/sell/promote their brand which resulted in most conversations turning into something like low quality crowd sourced podcasting.
- CuriouslyC 4y agoThere will always be people trying to do that for various reasons, but I think optional geofencing and the ability to have the feed algorithm focus on potential romantic partners would make it a bad platform to invest energy in.
- heleninboodler 4y agoI think the big difference is that now we have technology that allows it to be more than an awkward canned VHS sales video you made 6 months ago and close-to-realtime point-to-point interaction.