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How does datingring scale? If you're setting people up on dates using real-human matchmakers it sounds like you've got a matchmaking agency. That's unquestiona
by alexc05 11y ago
How does datingring scale? If you're setting people up on dates using real-human matchmakers it sounds like you've got a matchmaking agency.
That's unquestionably a good business if you can get customers (I've seen the millionaire matchmaker reality show and she's got lots of money). What I'm not seeing is how that business scales to the multi million dollar exit that a VC is looking for.
For every few hundred customers you need a new "real human" to manage coordinating the dates. How can you maintain quality across even 100k users? Obviously, with money you hire more, but what's the "engineer to user" ratio?
Facebook has 1.2million users per. What's app has 14million users per.
How many users can one "dating engineer" handle?
- jrs235 11y agoI posted this comment elsewhere here: Below is from http://caseysoftware.com/blog/working-for-a-dating-website http://caseysoftware.com/blog/working-for-a-dating-website "Let’s think about their model again: If someone joins the site and is unsuccessful, the site loses one customer. If someone joins the site and is successful, the site loses two customers. Wait, what? That’s right. Making you successful can be bad for them. Now obviously, they need success stories to promote and recruit new customers but too many success stories and.. they lose."
- stillsut 11y agoExcept for the "craigslist early adopters", almost everyone who has done online dating has done so based on word-of-mouth recommendation from people they trust. Success = recommend to friends; Viral.
- mkr-hn 11y agoMany of them will come back when the relationship ends.
- sgustard 11y agoThey will breed more customers, give it a few years.