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That's the thing that might kill it though. Unless you're talking big money (which you may eventually) you're not likely to find many women/men who are attract
by run4yourlives 17y ago
That's the thing that might kill it though.
Unless you're talking big money (which you may eventually) you're not likely to find many women/men who are attractive wanting to blind date for a free dinner or whatever.
What you could do actually, is get the person's friends to pick from the top 5, or have bidding levels that you can match to be considered "in", instead of auction style bidding.
- icey 17y agoThis sounds like a great facebook app to me - Have their friends decide who they go on a blind date with.
- run4yourlives 17y agoExcept by developing it on that dreadful site, you'll never make any money. :-)
- icey 17y agoI bet you there are more than a few people here that would disagree with that statement. (I'm not one of them, but I know that there are people making a killing on Facebook right now.)
- run4yourlives 17y agoMy stance would be that all those money making apps would do just as well, if not better, outside of facebook as well.
- icey 17y agoWhile that's entirely possible, inside of FB you have the benefit of already knowing who the user's friends are.
- run4yourlives 17y agoActually, it would be kinda neat to have strangers nominate two people for a blind date... wisdom of the crowds after all!
- jasonlbaptiste 17y agoYou would definitely have to do some leg work to find women who want in. They especially may not want the attention. That was my thought of using virtual gifts. If you send a virtual flower or teddy bear to woo the girl, it helps indicate you're serious. I also thought about letting the girl post her top choices along the way and let the audience comment and add their thoughts in. Another option would be letting the girl pick a "wingwoman" who helps and comments on the guys who apply.
- icey 17y agoI think you're going to have to do some work to alleviate the "creeper effect" - you know, the feeling that girls get from guys who they aren't interested in, but keep sending things anyways?
- run4yourlives 17y agoYou know, you could make it a "bachelor" style date, in that you could send both guy and girl off for a weekend in Jamaica, or a week in Spain or something like that. Of course the whole thing just got a lot more expensive, but it still might fly. You'd need to vet the contestants much more, but I'm sure that would take away the jitters some people may have in letting the highest bidder win. EDIT: I got it. You combine the ideas: Virtual Gifts are submitted to get to a "bidding" stage. Auctioned approves profiles they would consider (They have the interest of keeping this amount high) Pre-approved people are allowed to bid. Winning bid wins. Date paid for based on amount of winning bid (the higher, the better the date, hence the reason the auctioned wants lots of bidders). So long as all the bids total more than the cost of the date, profit ensues.
- jasonlbaptiste 17y agoexactly. The question is, how do you consistently generate enough traffic and get people bidding? Yes, it's 99 cents per bid, but if you're not interested in the girl, it doesn't matter. ie- shes too tall, it wouldn't matter if it were free. A PR burst would be nice for that week of launch, but what about the other 51 weeks in the year? If you can figure out that formula, profit ensues. Step 2: ????? actually exists here.