Show HN: Early version of a Speed Dating Community

Post by chongli » Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 5:29 PM UTC

personlurking wrote: post #48

chongli wrote: post #44

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If that person ghosts To get around the ghosting problem you could use GPS to see if the person is actually where they're supposed to be for the speed date. Essentially, people would get a notification when >x people are available in the area and they could go to a coffee shop and flip a toggle which instructs the app to start sending people to speed date them. If they leave the coffee shop or turn off their phone or…

Nice pivot. I'm imagining a toggle to alter your visibility too, between showing your general location within a venue, to something more playful (I'm wearing a green shirt, when there are two others in the room with green shirts), or even just 100% visible (here's my picture, I'm sitting exactly here). Though, I'm now reminded of two r/dataisbeautiful posts [1,2], where - despite both having faulty graphs - the OP sh…

Post by probablyfiction » Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 5:34 PM UTC

xor1 wrote: post #39

I really like this concept OP. I think your biggest non-technical hurdle is going to be dealing with the classic issue of there simply being significantly less women than men. I'm curious to know how you plan to approach that after you introduce a proper business model.

Post by amelius » Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 6:41 PM UTC

chongli wrote: post #51

personlurking wrote: post #48

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Nice pivot. I'm imagining a toggle to alter your visibility too, between showing your general location within a venue, to something more playful (I'm wearing a green shirt, when there are two others in the room with green shirts), or even just 100% visible (here's my picture, I'm sitting exactly here). Though, I'm now reminded of two r/dataisbeautiful posts [1,2], where - despite both having faulty graphs - the OP sh…

might have a ton of guys bombarding female users Then perhaps the solution is to make guys be the ones to sit in the coffee shop and have the women decide who they want to drop in on. The really beautiful thing about this is that the woman could see the guy and decide whether she thought it was safe to approach him or not without him even knowing she's there. She could just use the bathroom or buy a coffee and leave…

Post by johnnyb00y » Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 8:41 PM UTC

noso wrote: post #29

wangii wrote: post #2

it's not going to fly. I think the problem of this kind of ideas is that dating is actually a by product of social interactions, not suitable for engineering.

It may not fly or it may rocket! Either way, encouragement costs nothing. I wish them all the success. Good luck!

Post by xor1 » Thu, Jun 21, 2018, 5:29 AM UTC

probablyfiction wrote: post #53

xor1 wrote: post #39

I really like this concept OP. I think your biggest non-technical hurdle is going to be dealing with the classic issue of there simply being significantly less women than men. I'm curious to know how you plan to approach that after you introduce a proper business model.

Former speed dating entrepreneur here. In person, at least, women are much more open to the idea of speed dating than men. Much of our marketing revolved around how to appeal to and attract men to our events.