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Salesforce, but for Dating

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Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

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Post by robertn702 »

awinter-py wrote: post #169
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…

different co's approach to the integration problem was via 'data grab by keyboard' https://www.thekeys.ai/product not sure about bidirectional data flow though -- maybe you can do that via accessibility interfaces? Also possible that OSes will offer standard chat UX in the future, making it simpler to hook plugins into conversations -- ios already does this to some extent with imessage plugins, but 'tinder for imessa…

This is hilarious. I can imagine the person on the other side using the same app and the conversation just being the two AI talking to each other.

Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

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Post by awad »

random3 wrote: post #140
awad wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

CRMs work at scale by selling to executives who are not the end users but are in control of budget. They then have their sales managers enforce data fidelity amongst the sales team who, to keep their jobs, are incentivized to make sure data in the CRM are up to date, or whatever the closest approximation to that is. So for a personal CRM to work, you'd need to sort out, at minimum, the monetization piece and the data…

Executives also want to take the rolodex with them, hence they have an incentive to keep a personal CRM so that they keep their contacts after they leave. Superhuman sold to executives for $30/month - which is a relevant (high) price point.

I'm not entirely sure what the first point has to do with the second - can you help me understand what Superhuman has to do with anything? It's just a gmail client at the end of the day, isn't it?

My understanding is people who want to keep their contacts have 1) a lot of them in the actual inbox 2) have their Linkedin to fall back on 3) can always fall back to exporting all their contacts when they leave.

Apropos of nothing, $30/month/user is roughly the base price of Salesforce, and they have 3 more tiers significantly above that. High for a consumer, but pretty cheap for professional tools, and they don't sell licenses one at a time.

Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

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Post by selestify »

gernb wrote: post #188
dsfyu404ed wrote: post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I had the same problem as you. I had the same reaction to this post. It sucks man. Dating apps were not good for my mental health, so I got off them before I could become a bitter person.

I eventually found a gf outside of the apps, entirely by chance. I still do not see how I could’ve found her aside from pure random chance, so unfortunately that doesn’t help you at all.

Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

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Post by MajorBee »

selestify wrote: post #193
gernb wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I had the same problem as you. I had the same reaction to this post. It sucks man. Dating apps were not good for my mental health, so I got off them before I could become a bitter person. I eventually found a gf outside of the apps, entirely by chance. I still do not see how I could’ve found her aside from pure random chance, so unfortunately that doesn’t help you at all.

The more you put yourself in social settings (online, offline, whatever), the more you increase the surface area for finding someone through "pure random chance". Just adding a more optimistic bent to things.

Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

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Post by Fauntleroy »

selestify wrote: post #193
gernb wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I had the same problem as you. I had the same reaction to this post. It sucks man. Dating apps were not good for my mental health, so I got off them before I could become a bitter person. I eventually found a gf outside of the apps, entirely by chance. I still do not see how I could’ve found her aside from pure random chance, so unfortunately that doesn’t help you at all.

That's the key. You need to get more random chances by doing more things that get you to interact with other people.

Well, that and optimize your attractiveness as best you are able. That can take a large variety of forms depending on your target audience and who you want to be personally.

Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

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Post by culi »

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

> 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 agree if it becomes a social norm, but it could also be really helpful for people with certain disabilities or even dementia

Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

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Post by tonymet »

I recommend keeping track of your encounters with friends in your notebook or notes app. After you hang out with them write down updates on their family (their spouse's & kids' names, are they starting school, playing sports?), their health updates, ventures , hobbies– anything worth remembering.

Remember that person you met that was so good at remembering everything about you? most likely they are just good at journaling.

Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

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Post by bluefirebrand »

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.

Trust me, the average person does not get this amount of dates on dating apps.

However, hot women probably do.

Edit: or at least could, if they wanted to

Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

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Post by moneywoes »

npunt wrote: post #25
prettyStandard wrote: post #4

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 other…

Don’t TikTok and Instagram access the phone book and hence numbers?
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