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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.
Is there AI-powered communication as well? The profiles can let AI communicate and receive a message when GPT-3 has determined that an actual date should occur.
Is there a “notes” section so I can jot down details from dates to remember? That part is currently occupying my phone’s notes app.
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…
Then for dates in the funnel who told you things like "too busy", "not ready for dating" etc. you could schedule automated messages for things like reminding them to circle back when they're ready, checking if they're available to get on a call to show them new features you've added (as a person), etc.
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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?
I'm more unsettled by the automation part. At least the half-bit received came from someone who consciously thought about you enough to send it. Once you emulate that part, all you have is a MITM initiating conversations between strangers.
Can someone chime in why this hasn't worked in the past? It seems a personal/portable CRM could be highly useful. The second aspect is the vertical aspect (professional or "personal") One thing I keep hearing from people that have sold companies, exited etc. is that they are having a hard time operating within their networks without the CRM.
Yes. Having been in this space for a bit, there are a few reasons why it hasn't worked (yet): 1. The problem of deduplicating contacts is tough (but solvable). If you don't solve it well, then the utility of personal CRM goes wayyyyy down and you're getting notifications about the same people with different email / WhatsApp / Instagram addresses and that gets annoying. 2. People haven't shown a big willingness to pay…
He had a spreadsheet -- called girls.xls -- where he kept track of important details about each woman he went on a date with.
We were sitting around musing about how hard it must be to keep track of the key details given all the dates he was going on, and he let drop that he had a spreadsheet.
He never showed it to anybody and it didn't sound creepy - it was genuinely a tool he used in good faith given the volume of info he was trying to keep track of.
And, he ended up marrying #42.