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Salesforce, but for Dating
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Re: Salesforce, but for Dating
#92A good left-brained friend of mine was dating heavily in the late 2000s as he was in "wife finding mode". 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…
After the divorce he discovered a bug in his VLOOKUP.
Re: Salesforce, but for Dating
#93Pretty sure this is meant as a joke, but dating has become so twisted now that I'm not actually 100% sure. Which makes this perfect satire.
I have had a few people I know go on piles of dates, so I could see someone having a use for it if they are rapidly iterating through individuals.
"rapidly iterating through individuals" What a dystopian nightmare. So glad I missed out on this era of dating.
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#94I'm not sure if a database exists that's robust enough to handle the massive, massive quantity of dates that my life entails. /extreme sarcasm (or is that a DIVIDE_BY_ZERO error?, haha)
If you need something like this, then it's probably safe to say that dating is not your weak point.
But, just as every multi-millionaire probably has an accountant, because they have more wealth than they can easily manage, so too must the dating conquistadors suffer, I guess.
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#95Can 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.
I think it simply would need a lot of discipline to keep up to date and without a manager nagging or bonuses being dependent upon updating it, most people lack that discipline.
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#96I 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…
Yo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_(app)
To be pedantic, this is not a single bit of data. This is zero bits attached to an event. The event is not discrete however, so I'm not sure what form of information theory would be appropriate to describe it.
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#97Might 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…
Would also be a good to manage a date funnel. 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.
I assume this is humor, since a lot of people will use these responses to say "No" without having to come out an say it (the "Nonconfrontational No", if you will - "I don't want to date you" invites a direct conflict, but "too busy" can't really be argued with).
So, building on your humor, I'd like to suggest a feature/service we can sell to the victcoughother person. When they respond with "too busy" they can also set a flag in the system indicating whether they'd actually like to _not_ hear from the person operating the funnel. We get paid, the vict^H^H^H^Hdate doesn't get hassled in the future, and the person running the dating funnel is none the wiser because our software never notifies them again.
I think I'm ready for an MBA now :)
Re: Salesforce, but for Dating
#98Might 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…
Would also be a good to manage a date funnel. 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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Re: Salesforce, but for Dating
#99I 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.
> 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.
This is what social media and messaging apps should innovate on.
But, without VC money, without ads, without feeds drive by algorithms that optimize for engagement. Without dark patterns and antifeatures that make our lives worse. Just a non-profit that churns out open source code and is supported by monthly recurring donations from a % of the userbase.
Re: Salesforce, but for Dating
#100I 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 want one for remembering stuff about people for personal and business networking.
For a while, I was going to a weekly event where I'd meet people, but I'd never remember their name next time because I'm terrible with names.
So I started jotting down notes after it was over. Like, today I met person X who is really into this one hobby and just moved here from such and such city. And person Y who is looking for a new apartment. And Z who came with Y.
Then before going next time, I'd review the list, and if I saw X, I knew their name and could ask how they're adjusting after their move. Or I could ask Y how the apartment search is going.
At first I thought if people saw this list they might think it was a little weird. And maybe, but I'm OK with it since it's a way of making an effort. As long as it's genuine and your motivations are good, people like that you remembered stuff about them. (I'm not doing it to impress people, etc.)
Anyway, I didn't have a good way to organize it. I stuck it all in a document, which didn't work great.