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Maybe not everyone wants to get laid.
I assure you everyone wants to get laid. Whether that is the ONLY reason is a different story.
Have you met Paul Erdös?
Show HN: Early version of a Speed Dating Community
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Re: Show HN: Early version of a Speed Dating Community
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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…
Although this is why I continued that statement with "if it weren't for the AI being involved, as it will be the one matching nearby suitors for you."
Meaning no bombardment will be allowed cause the users (neither male nor female) won't be the ones sending first contact.
Re: Show HN: Early version of a Speed Dating Community
#63I want to login with my own email and pass. Login with FB and/or Linked In is not an option for me.
I dislike social profiles like the next person and would like a better way of verifying... I just had an idea whilst thinking about how I was going to respond to this -- perhaps I could do e-mail signup but instead verify the user through the clearbit/fullcontact api. Need to look into that
How is a Facebook or LinkedIn account considered “verification” when spammers routinely use thousands of fake accounts to astroturf fraudulent pages & ads? Surely this means any malicious actor targeting your platform can do the same.