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Post by firedating »

nelsonmandela wrote: post #29
firedating wrote: post #18

I develop https://firedating.me - my hobby project and a place for FIRE (Financial Independence / Retire Early) enthusiasts to find friends and a partner. My goal is to help FIRE people build meaningful connections and decrease the amount of loneliness in the community. I don't make any money, instead I've spent around $130 and 400 hours so far. It is actually a lot of fun to learn web development and encounter vario…

What made you decide to show the ratio of male:female?

To be honest, everyone was always asking for this. I already had a public stats page back then, so it was very easy to just include it there (to save my time calculating this manually).

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Post by firedating »

cm2012 wrote: post #42
nelsonmandela wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What made you decide to show the ratio of male:female?

At 1/3 I think it's smart. I would have assumed a much worse male to female ratio without that.

I agree, I was also assuming a worse ratio. However, I tried comparing this with other dating sites and they report better ratios. At the same time, I suspect that FIRE community might be biased towards males (even though I heard that majority of Mr Money Mustache followers are women).

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Post by fsflover »

davehcker wrote: post #375
fsflover wrote: post #251

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> using only non-GMO plants What's the point in such restriction? AFAIK, GMO was never proven harmful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_crops#Con...

OP here; not kidding, but once you get down to talking to your actual customers, one has only so much energy to convince people that GMO is not necessarily bad. May be I'm harming myself by being so honest here- but the general consumer is so pleased to know that our produce is so good and is not 'the plastic GMO thing'. This, so far, has been what I've found in over 10 restaurant/gourmet/general consumer interviews.

You are probably right. But directly advertising your product as "GMO-free" helps spread fake-news that GMO may be harmful. Please don't do it.

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Post by firedating »

galfarragem wrote: post #305
nelsonmandela wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What made you decide to show the ratio of male:female?

It's a really smart move regarding sustainable growth. Males will refrain of signing up without an "healthy" ratio. Not doing it would just cause early abandonments and decrease goodwill. Everybody wins.

I personally perceived this as a signaling to female users to motivate them to join more. But the way you phrase this is also interesting.

To be fair, the ratio was not public at the very beginning.

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Post by jimmy2020 »

Working on https://jalal246.github.io/dflex/ While a lot of people asked me why doing this because there are other solutions I am still convinced that the web is still away from a standard flexible layout. Because I know that partial solutions are not enough and hard solutions should not be normalized I am doing what I am doing. Releasing it's not an easy path I decided to go on with the project after I took a decision early at the beginning of this year to shut it down.

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Post by firedating »

h0h0h0h0111 wrote: post #110
firedating wrote: post #18

I develop https://firedating.me - my hobby project and a place for FIRE (Financial Independence / Retire Early) enthusiasts to find friends and a partner. My goal is to help FIRE people build meaningful connections and decrease the amount of loneliness in the community. I don't make any money, instead I've spent around $130 and 400 hours so far. It is actually a lot of fun to learn web development and encounter vario…

I love your analytics page! So cool to have a transparent view of what's going on on a website

Thank you!

I value transparency and happily share stats and why I make specific decisions.

I've got an idea of such "open" page from levelsio's https://nomadlist.com/open.

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Post by firedating »

atlgator wrote: post #41
firedating wrote: post #18

I develop https://firedating.me - my hobby project and a place for FIRE (Financial Independence / Retire Early) enthusiasts to find friends and a partner. My goal is to help FIRE people build meaningful connections and decrease the amount of loneliness in the community. I don't make any money, instead I've spent around $130 and 400 hours so far. It is actually a lot of fun to learn web development and encounter vario…

Dude! I’m in!

Happy dating and let the FIRE be in your heart!

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Post by yboris »

https://videohubapp.com/

Video Hub App - Browse, search, and organize your videos.

Turns 3 years old this month. MIT open source, cross-platform (Win, Mac, Linux). Selling it for $5 and $3.50 goes to a cost-effective (my favorite) charity AMF (Against Malaria Foundation). Would be great to get more donations to the charity - it's not a project I need to succeed financially.

https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

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Post by firedating »

asdev wrote: post #225
firedating wrote: post #18

I develop https://firedating.me - my hobby project and a place for FIRE (Financial Independence / Retire Early) enthusiasts to find friends and a partner. My goal is to help FIRE people build meaningful connections and decrease the amount of loneliness in the community. I don't make any money, instead I've spent around $130 and 400 hours so far. It is actually a lot of fun to learn web development and encounter vario…

how did you get your initial users?

I've got an idea during a FIRE meetup, so there was already initial interest (~10 people). Once I had the site running, I made a post on Reddit and people just joined. In 1.5 months around 500 users joined (there is a graph here: https://firedating.me/open/). It was indeed a chicken and an egg problem, because a dating site without users provides 0 value. Fortunately, people joined even despite this. Nowadays, it is much easier. Just saying "we are 2800 users" is already much more convincing.
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