Well, there was Chatroulette: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatroulette
Mmhh..looks like there still _is_ Chatroulette (NSFW!) https://chatroulette.com
Is anyone doing “Tinder, but with video”? Why not?
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#13Transpose videos to gifs with audio and I think you will have something. No one does it with raw video because of the hosting cost.
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#14Probably same reason you dont need to see video of the food in a restaurant or video of your room in a hotel.
Idk about that. If I could see in video that the dish waiters bring to table actually look like the pictures it would be more enticing. Also, just getting the vibe, feel, and size of a restaurant or hotel could have a big influence.
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#15I would argue that creating a Tinder but only with voice is much more exciting. Imaging going on a blind date and the only thing you know is the voice.
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#16For the French speaking dating pool
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#17Transpose videos to gifs with audio and I think you will have something. No one does it with raw video because of the hosting cost.
>Transpose videos to gifs with audio and I think you will have something. No one does it with raw video because of the hosting cost
Umm, you do realize that videos provide a way better compression than GIF+audio, right?
Re: Is anyone doing “Tinder, but with video”? Why not?
#18Bash out an MVP and get a few people to try it. Tinder is vulnerable to a strong competitor I think its a reasonable idea and you never can tell what the customer really wants or what the market will reward.
The technical part is the easy part. What’s interesting to me is how tinder, which unlike twitter or Instagram for example requires a certain mass of active users in the same physical area, established themeselves in the first place.
My only thought on how to make a “Tinder of X” is start hyper local, somewhere like a college campus or a single neighborhood. The small local userbase could well become a selling point too, giving the product the image of exclusivity. Starting hyper local also may help with the “ok so he looks cute but what if he’s actually an axe murderer or Russian troll” problem.
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#19Dating apps are only valuable based off their user base. The coding is not the hard part. The app is not the hard part. Well over 90% of the difficulty of dating apps is successfully marketing them.
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#20Video is not an improvement over text.