Show HN: Built a web-based competitor to Grindr. Would love tips and advice

Post by frantzdy_romain » Tue, Jul 17, 2012, 7:23 PM UTC

jbelich wrote: post #10

Grindr solves three problems: 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 no…

Post by frantzdy_romain » Tue, Jul 17, 2012, 9:07 PM UTC

jbelich wrote: post #12

frantzdy_romain wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Love your take on it. You do hit on some key points, Thanks for taking time out of your day to provide your feedback :)

The model equation is: "_NEED_ to do `X` with someone close by, sometime very close to now" solve for X. Sex is the most obvious, but there may be others. Solve for X