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Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

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Post by dsfyu404ed »

gernb wrote: post #175
Willish42 wrote: post #111

Still not entirely certain this isn't just a really impressive parody, but for my sanity I am hoping it is. I think this says a lot about the "attention economy" way all the various dating and social apps take up your time to use them, and how we've digitized the process so much that people unironically see the appeal of a CRM system for managing contacts. Classic case of "new tech to solve the problems of all the ot…

I really hope it is because I get maybe 1 person every 8 months to write back so if the average person has so many dates they need an app to track them all that's just seriously depressing that I'm so far off the norm.

Delete all your apps and re-sign up. You're getting F-ed by the algorithm.

Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

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Post by aqme28 »

tennisflyi wrote: post #164
aqme28 wrote: post #74

I’ve been very actively dating and single for ages now. This is unequivocally a good idea if executed well. 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.

Plethora of dates but can't add an "other" section in the contact in the contacts app. Of course.

Of which contacts app? Instagram doesn't have that feature, for example.

Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

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Post by dsfyu404ed »

ericmcer wrote: post #162
Willish42 wrote: post #111

Still not entirely certain this isn't just a really impressive parody, but for my sanity I am hoping it is. I think this says a lot about the "attention economy" way all the various dating and social apps take up your time to use them, and how we've digitized the process so much that people unironically see the appeal of a CRM system for managing contacts. Classic case of "new tech to solve the problems of all the ot…

I am sure it is not a parody. I have witnessed co-workers getting professional photographs and using spreadsheets to track dates/matches, all to carefully optimize their dating app success. It reminds me of the early 2000s "pick up artist" stuff, I had a few friends who read the books and would actively hit on women anytime we went out. It was horrible haha. As for the maker of this app, if it fills a need and gets w…

>It reminds me of the early 2000s "pick up artist" stuff, I had a few friends who read the books and would actively hit on women anytime we went out. It was horrible haha.

In the early 2000s only "professionals" used CAD. Now (almost) everyone with a 3d printer or a shed they want to build uses CAD. It's trickled down.

The pickup artists are on the bleeding edge of the "craft" if you can call it that. It shouldn't be surprising that the stuff they do (or at least the stuff that works) filters down.

Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

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Post by npunt »

michaelmior wrote: post #49
npunt wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 other…

I remember using Socialfly! I wasn't a heavy user, but I actually quite liked it and was a bit disappointed when it went away.

Oh cool, so great to hear from a user after all these years! Some of our users were suuper invested, like keeping up with hundreds of people - far more than we anticipated. I think our top user was a pastor in Australia who kept up with like 700+ people.

We would have continued a while longer but the 08 recession really burnt us. We were raising $$ in the weeks where banks were literally failing. RIP Good Times era. Our iPhone app was just about ready to ship and we were going to start building integrations like email next, but no runway. We had an angel lined up who’d have gotten us about 4-6mo of runway but I didn’t want to burn that relationship in such an uncertain environment, we were all pretty down about prospects then.

Fun fact tho: the app continued to work for years after. FB took a long time to deprecate API and our code was pretty solid.

Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

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Post by cpsns »

InitialLastName wrote: post #145
emrah wrote: post #54

Wow, managing one's dating life with a crm app has got to be the most distopian thing I've seen in a while. I probably need to point out that I'm not dissing the app. If it succeeds, the creators are obviously filling a need in the market, but confirmation of such a need would indicate dating as I define it is horribly broken

> dating as I define it is horribly broken Socializing as a whole is broken, triggered by the disappearance of third places, the dissolution of communities at the altar of the nuclear dual-income family, live-at-work jobs and "hustle culture" (Veblen entrepreneurship), and the unlimited streaming doom-scroll. With nowhere to go but work and home, good luck finding anyone to date or befriend via a nonexistent organic…

A sizeable group of us don’t have a meaningful second place either anymore. I work remote and there is really no social aspect to it in any meaningful sense, just pointless meetings and an endless Jira backlog. My home and my work are one and the same.

In the last three years the closest I came to a viable third place was VRChat, it was the best social experience I’ve ever had. I don’t think I need to say much more about that, it speaks for itself.

Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

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Post by dilyevsky »

tgv wrote: post #14
tus666 wrote: post #3

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?

I hope there’s a gong sound too.

Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

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Post by sureglymop »

causality0 wrote: post #112
kareemm wrote: post #80

A 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…

I was probably 24 years old before I realized dating multiple people was even a thing. I figured you talked to and dated a person until you either decided you weren't having a good time or you married them.

As a 24 year old, that honestly just sounds stressful. I feel like many 24 year old have a lot going on, personally i don't understand how people would have the time.

Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

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Post by gernb »

dsfyu404ed wrote: post #181
gernb wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really hope it is because I get maybe 1 person every 8 months to write back so if the average person has so many dates they need an app to track them all that's just seriously depressing that I'm so far off the norm.

Delete all your apps and re-sign up. You're getting F-ed by the algorithm.

I'm on 6 services. It hasn't been different on any of them. The odds that all 6 have the same bug seems unlikely.

Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

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Post by [deleted] »

jaqalopes wrote: post #160

A lot of dunking going on in here, and fairly so, if nothing else because there is no good business model for an app like this unless they build it into dating apps (who's going to manually enter data from Tinder into this thing?). But the dunking seems to overlook the genuine problems with modern dating that didn't exist in the past. I find that it's very easy to mindlessly swipe a thousand people on an app and sudd…

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Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

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Post by netsharc »

gernb wrote: post #175
Willish42 wrote: post #111

Still not entirely certain this isn't just a really impressive parody, but for my sanity I am hoping it is. I think this says a lot about the "attention economy" way all the various dating and social apps take up your time to use them, and how we've digitized the process so much that people unironically see the appeal of a CRM system for managing contacts. Classic case of "new tech to solve the problems of all the ot…

I really hope it is because I get maybe 1 person every 8 months to write back so if the average person has so many dates they need an app to track them all that's just seriously depressing that I'm so far off the norm.

Tinder is an app for attractive people to find hookups, average people to find dates, and ugly people to find false hope...

Maybe if we just put up better photos?

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