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Everyone, please stop. Seriously, stop. How many more of these things do we need? "Find people nearby with similar interests", sounded like a semi-decent premi
by jblok 13y ago
Everyone, please stop. Seriously, stop. How many more of these things do we need?
"Find people nearby with similar interests", sounded like a semi-decent premise 3 or 4 years ago, but no one did it well enough to reach a critical mass, and nor did the 100 or so clones that followed. I cringe every time I hear about a startup like this now.
People (maybe just me) don't generally make friends in this way. How many times have you honestly been walking down the street and thought, "I must find someone who shares my love of handball as well as Star Wars!" You don't. You go join a handball club, or you find some nerds that are into sci-fi, and maybe there might be an overlap. And if not, who gives a shit - there's much more to liking a person than what their interests are. They might be really unkind or talk about you behind your back. I'd rather not be friends with them in that case, even if they love handball and Star Wars more than they love breathing.
Offering control over your users privacy can not be claimed as a selling point, as I see so often in social media startups. It is a minimum user requirement and in some territories, a legal requirement.
I hate to tell anyone that you can't do something, but I think there are so many more valuable unsolved problems out there.
- dkersten 13y agoI agree. Of my friends, I made friends with approx. 33% of them in school/uni, 15% from work-related things and tech meetups, 15% from couchserfing.com (but through physical meeting the people), 33% through mutual friends and the rest from online sources.
- talhof8 13y agoYou see, the goal here isn't to connect you with people who love both x and y, and so they fit you as potential best friend. The goal here is replace those tons of friends on your social networks, whom half you (not specifically you ofcourse) barely know, with people who really interest you and love x, or y, or even both. Thanks for your comment
- talhof8 13y agoAnd this isn't location based. I've seen too many of those on my iPhone, claiming to find you some new "BFF's". It isn't the goal
- unalone 13y agoOut of curiosity, what's the difference between this and forums which have many ultraspecific subsections for people to discuss their personal interests? Is it that this searches for people who have as many overlapping interests with you as possible?
- dhugiaskmak 13y agoSo it's Reddit?
- talhof8 13y agoNot really. Reddit is a news site, Interestin tends to be more like Facebook.
- talhof8 13y ago@unalone as I said in the post, this meant to provide an alternative to multiple accounts on these various "ultraspecific subsections" sites. It doesn't matches you up with people. It provides you tools to find them, and not by using any weird "matching" algorithm.