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Salesforce, but for Dating

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Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

#21
Might be a good opportunity here to integrate events, restaurant bookings, and other paid "experiences" for some upside.

Does this integrate directly with the dating services/apps themselves? Seems like a lot of work to plumb in and keep up-to-date the status and latest information on each profile.

Also, if this is a legit service you should be extremely careful how you store all this data. Exposing a bunch of dating profile data via a security breach will land you into hotter water than anything Marc Benioff could throw at you :)

Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

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Sorry I cringed. Hoping this is a joke.

Don't you have a pipeline with girls you're going to cold-call, and a dating life manager that breathes down your neck when you haven't taken at least 10 girls out this month?

Can there be endless meetings about whether your issues are top or bottom of funnel?

Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

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I was thinking about something similar, but less cringy. More like: hey you haven't messaged your friend in 6 months, maybe you should ask them how they are doing. A priority queue but to help keep friendships alive.

Lots of attempts over the years at this personal crm problem space but no success to date. I did one on Facebook platform in 2008-09 called Socialfly, our tagline was ‘be twice the friend in half the time’.

Problem is there’s a lot of input and upkeep which limits appeal, the most important social data sources (text & phone) are not accessible via api, its a personal tool that you don’t necessarily want to tell others you use which limits distribution & scale, and even after all that in general it’s hard to scale personal authenticity.

I think the problem needs to be approached from a different angle along the lines of a personal assistant rather that an explicit data management tool. And it likely has to come from those with access to privileged social data sources like Apple or Google or Facebook.

Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

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I was thinking about something similar, but less cringy. More like: hey you haven't messaged your friend in 6 months, maybe you should ask them how they are doing. A priority queue but to help keep friendships alive.

I remember moaning about twitter reducing the number of characters people sent, and then yo! came out, and it was down to a single bit of data. That made me think 'what would even lower information content messages look like in a social network, perhaps half a bit or even less?'. I figured that a half bit of data would be where a social network sent some sort of hello message automatically with the same frequency the…

Thought-provoking and somehow ingenious, even if something about this makes me deeply uncomfortable.

To try to be a little constructive, is a relationship really worth anything if a half-bit is all one can spare for it?

Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

#28

I was thinking about something similar, but less cringy. More like: hey you haven't messaged your friend in 6 months, maybe you should ask them how they are doing. A priority queue but to help keep friendships alive.

There have been several iterations of this sort of idea — a personal CRM — and the main issue I have is they should automatically scan my emails, texts and chats to figure out my friends and suggest that I reach out.

Also, want it to be 100% local and privacy first.

Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

#29

I was thinking about something similar, but less cringy. More like: hey you haven't messaged your friend in 6 months, maybe you should ask them how they are doing. A priority queue but to help keep friendships alive.

> I was thinking about something similar, but less cringy.

Well, if you are worried about it being cringy, you probably shouldn't watch the 2022 Salesforce Dreamforce (their annual convention). It's cultish and shows the unbelievably arrogant confidence they have in their own importance - along with the most inexplicably childish moments for a professional conference I've ever seen. (Let's put foam rabbit ears on our "co-CEOs" to entertain the "trailblazers" as we gather around a fake wooden stage imitating the outdoors with faux trees, won't that be funny?)

Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

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Sorry I cringed. Hoping this is a joke.

Don't you have a pipeline with girls you're going to cold-call, and a dating life manager that breathes down your neck when you haven't taken at least 10 girls out this month?

> a dating life manager that breathes down your neck when you haven't taken at least 10 girls out this month?

I never realized that my dream job would be so people-oriented. Drop me a line if you're hiring...

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