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by jmtame 14y ago
I do think meeting people out (at bars and things) is critical and the dating sites now don't take advantage of that - the check into places idea. Yep. We weren't sure at first, so we asked girls: would you rather meet a group of guys at
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Yep, Grindr notoriously has had great success with their app for non-straight people. It's something unique to that market, but when you try to speed up the dating process for straight people, it has always failed. Why? Because you're missi
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I have to disagree that colleges are the best place to start, from your blog. We actually started all of this at Stanford, talking directly to fraternity and sorority presidents. They all sounded excited when we said we'd taken them out for
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by jmtame 14y ago
Is there a way I can e-mail you? Don't see your contact info on your blog or HN profile.
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by jmtame 14y ago
Just sent an e-mail, no need to reply. I'll reach out again after we've built this.
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Got super frustrating that my ability to even see how this site worked required me to drag my friends into this mess without their consent. I'm going to add some explanations to the home page, I definitely agree with you here. It's a lot
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Women will still be over messaged and men are still under messaged. People still ignore profiles in favor of photos - what does this change? Aren't you more interested in reading what somebody's friend has to say about them rather than wh
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OkStupid: There’s a New Dating Site for All Your Trolling Needs(betabeat.com)
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Tired of copy-pasting the Facebook JS SDK?(github.com)
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That's a lot of work to fake a profile, so it seems like the odds are much lower with us vs. another site where all you need is an e-mail address. I also think Facebook is also good at detecting fake accounts.
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I have found that the act of free writing whenever I'm stressed out or procrastinating results in an inevitable question that needs answered, and for whatever reason I was avoiding it at the time. Once it's on paper and I can look at it, I
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That won't work. You have to have 100+ Facebook friends to join.
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This is about playing the wingman role for your friends and helping them out. What I've noticed happen is that after commenting on my friends' profiles, they've commented on mine. They just want to reciprocate the favor. But nobody joins th
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by jmtame 14y ago
That's interesting, would you mind posting the link to the site or name of the company that was doing this before? Would love to check them out. I think it's something we're opinionated on: dating doesn't need to be a serious business. It's
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by jmtame 14y ago
Not right now. Maybe in the future we'll let you join using e-mail, but for now it makes it a lot easier to prevent people from faking their own profiles and it also speeds up the process of adding friends.
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I think you've done a better job at describing this than I could. I got out of a 3 year relationship 5 months ago and rebounded pretty hard, so I tried lots of online dating sites. I always found it slightly awkward when I was filling out m
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Show HN: Weekend project, fun spin on dating. Only friends edit your profile(cupidwithfriends.com)
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Bill sharing has been a hassle for me since I have two roommates, but I've been using Splitwise without any complaints. From the looks of it, this is taking the group SMS approach, which I would find overwhelming. I get e-mails whenever bil
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This is how I can tell my roommate is reading: he constantly double clicks, probably once every other second.
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If you still (incorrectly) believe that MDMA causes "holes in your brain" (referring to a retracted study where the instrumentation was not calibrated properly over-exaggerating how much MDMA affects serotonin levels) or Parkinson's disease
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by jmtame 14y ago
I have a Google Doc full of ideas. I write down what frustrates me, what I hate doing, or what I'd go as far as to pay someone else to fix for me. I don't just come up with ideas, I've been maintaining this list of ideas for a little over a
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by jmtame 14y ago
The social aspect isn't mandatory, and your list is private by default. You have to opt-in to make it public. Sorry for any confusion!
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Thanks! Yeah, I think you're right--registration shouldn't be required to create or fork a list, especially for newer users who are curious to try it out for the first time.
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Thanks! The idea was started out of the desire to make travel itineraries easy. For example, my girlfriend and I made a list of things we wanted to do when we went to London. It was a lot of work to comb through all the various travel sites
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Show HN: Forkbin lets you fork public lists(forkbin.com)
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I'm curious if this would affect how you give advice to founders. For example, let's say a team is working on an idea that isn't working out. If you had two ideas or recommendations in your head, one that seems intuitively good and one intu
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One thing I always think about is how the code works behind games like Starcraft. I find myself trying to understand the data structures and algorithms behind seemingly simple mechanisms like creep spreading or revealing the fog of war. Are
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I haven't been through as a student, although I know many students would say it was worth it. I've watched two classes graduate, and I'm impressed with the curriculum. 90% of Dev Bootcamp's previous class got offers of $80k/year, compared t
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by jmtame 14y ago
The problem with self-learning is one of discipline and motivation. I started a learn-to-code startup and iterated 7 times (now profitable). It's nearly impossible to keep someone engaged without having a human involved. When I think back t
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This reminds me of part of an essay PG wrote (context: it was intended for high school students, but seems relevant): "People who've done great things tend to seem as if they were a race apart. And most biographies only exaggerate this illu

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