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Inlu.st - new dating startup

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Post by tibbon » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 3:25 PM UTC

Inlu.st - new dating startup
inlu.st

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#2

Post by jdp23 » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 3:32 PM UTC

The page looks great, and I really like the way it tells the stories of how the founders met.

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Post by thetrumanshow » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 3:33 PM UTC

I prognosticate that inlu.st will have an easy time attracting at least one of the two sexes as users.

Now, which one will that be? Hmmm..

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Post by jmtame » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 3:34 PM UTC

is this an application? what is this?

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Post by juliamae » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 3:38 PM UTC

thetrumanshow wrote: post #3

I prognosticate that inlu.st will have an easy time attracting at least one of the two sexes as users. Now, which one will that be? Hmmm..

hi, i'm the founder of this site and am actually quite curious what you mean by this. do you think the feminine design will scare men away? or do you think the name will scare women away?

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Post by juliamae » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 3:38 PM UTC

jmtame wrote: post #4

is this an application? what is this?

it is a dating community that will launch next month.

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Post by izaidi » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 3:41 PM UTC

Tiny design thing: your background image doesn't match the background color. Seems to be a color profile issue. Doing a "Save for Web" in Photoshop should fix it.

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Post by thetrumanshow » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 3:43 PM UTC

juliamae wrote: post #5

thetrumanshow wrote: post #3

I prognosticate that inlu.st will have an easy time attracting at least one of the two sexes as users. Now, which one will that be? Hmmm..

hi, i'm the founder of this site and am actually quite curious what you mean by this. do you think the feminine design will scare men away? or do you think the name will scare women away?

It will aways be harder to attract/keep women on a dating site than it will be to attract/keep men. That is why almost ALL advertising for dating sites on TV is targeted at women, IMO.

Further, if you start with a domain like inlu.st, you are eliminating the % of women that actually care about long term relationships over one night stands. That is a very large %.

Just my opinion. I have no data for you.

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Post by mstevens » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 3:44 PM UTC

juliamae wrote: post #5

thetrumanshow wrote: post #3

I prognosticate that inlu.st will have an easy time attracting at least one of the two sexes as users. Now, which one will that be? Hmmm..

hi, i'm the founder of this site and am actually quite curious what you mean by this. do you think the feminine design will scare men away? or do you think the name will scare women away?

Personally I'd guess at the name scaring women away.

However I wouldn't necessarily trust my intuition and would prefer testing it.

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 3:45 PM UTC

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