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Show HN: Built a web-based competitor to Grindr. Would love tips and advice
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2. Makes me login without a good explanation of value prop.
3. Grindr is a mobile app, this isn't even close.
4. You're playing the game of network effect with no network.
Grindr got traction because it removed all the friction by being a sleek iPhone app. How's this different from other web-based hook up sites?
1. Doesn't look finished, just bad hack of Bootstrap. 2. Makes me login without a good explanation of value prop. 3. Grindr is a mobile app, this isn't even close. 4. You're playing the game of network effect with no network.
Grindr got traction because it removed all the friction by being a sleek iPhone app. How's this different from other web-based hook up sites?
Well picture this as our storefront (Mobile app in works). We decided to build a website first, flesh out our API for a mobile app, and give user access to his/her account via web and mobile(soon). Our main difference to Grindr or any other app in our market is that we are open to anyone regardless of sexual orientation. But I do appreciate your question :)
Grindr solves the problem of "I want to find someone nearby for sex." Now, I know people who have found friends and relationships through it, but that's not why they downloaded grindr.
Does this get anyone to fucking any sooner? If no, then it's not grindr. (or scruff...)
NOW... if you want to infiltrate this space, make it HTML5 only, and allow X-rated pictures on it. Make it seamless for android and iphone to install (particularly iphone) and you have a market.
But you need to look deeper into the market (particularly adult friend finder!) to understand the problems attracting women. Also check the okcupid blogs about their experiences and data. Women, in general, don't respond. I think an interesting experiment would be to have a service where only women could initiate, because otherwise they're bombarded and men rarely see return emails.
(* I say this as a gay man who has played with grindr and who has many friends with it, but is in a happy relationship.)
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Well picture this as our storefront (Mobile app in works). We decided to build a website first, flesh out our API for a mobile app, and give user access to his/her account via web and mobile(soon). Our main difference to Grindr or any other app in our market is that we are open to anyone regardless of sexual orientation. But I do appreciate your question :)
Yeah, I don't know anyone who got grindr for this.* Grindr solves the problem of "I want to find someone nearby for sex." Now, I know people who have found friends and relationships through it, but that's not why they downloaded grindr. Does this get anyone to fucking any sooner? If no, then it's not grindr. (or scruff...) NOW... if you want to infiltrate this space, make it HTML5 only, and allow X-rated pictures on…
This looks more like an attempt to compete in the normal online dating area. Grindr is a phone app - period. You only ever see people who were logged in recently and who are close to you, which is much harder to do from a website.
1. Gay men want to fuck.
2. Someone close by.
3. NOW.
No one will successfully clone Grindr outside of the gay hookup space (nor will Grindr be successful with their non-gay-sex app) because there are no other potential applications with the same imprimatur, except sexual hookups in other scenes (i.e. plentyoffish, or justlunch).
Unless you're horny, proximity and timeliness simply do not matter so much, and any application outside that scene is simply a gimmick, unless you have an application truly unique and compelling.