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Beyond a startup, I would also recommend volunteering, doing sports, taking a class, or if you're spiritually-inclined, going to church, in order to make new friendships. Those tend to be more regular, and you're not so focused on the conversation itself.
I actually did register on Grubwithus after seeing it recommended in the original thread. It appears there is an event in my town on Thursday, and it shows a few people who will be attending. To reserve a seat, I have to pay $22. Where is the event? It doesn't say, except that the location is "near Portland" and will be revealed "soon". What will we be eating? It doesn't say. I dunno about you guys but that much info…
Ditto. Was expecting it to tell me about the dinners before the groups in my area. I assumed (because of the interests I put in) that the Young Professionals Group was hosting a dinner so I "joined" it. Then when I was on my profile, I realized that I'd only "joined" the Young Professionals group not their dinner. I had to go back to the homepage to see the to-be-determined PDX dinner date was actually being hosted b…
So i thought, ok, let's set up a group and a diner in a nice restaurant... So why the hell am i supposed to provide my credit card data to potentially pay $22 (??) for a meetup in a UNKNOWN, not freely choosable restaurant in Berlin?
It just tells me "yo, we will set up a nice partner restaurant for you"...
So i have to pay upfront (if enough people signup) for a meetup in a restaurant which i cannot choose, somewhere in Berlin, not knowing if grubwithus will actually be able to book a table in a decent restaurant (how would they know my taste....). It's also entirely unclear how much of the money goes to grubwithus, which should be clearly explained somewhere without me having to look it up in the terms and conditions or wherever it might be hidden.
I'm not fast in saying "This concept will fail", but I am pretty sure this model is fundamentally flawed and will fail...
I misinterpreted the platform as a nice way of setting up a diner with friends + some strangers in a restaurant of my choice (where i know the quality is good), but grubwithus doesn't allow me to do that.
It's also really weird that i cannot comment in my recently created group, because the system tells me to "Slow down there partner!".
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> You're not going to make friends over one dinner. ... Friendship takes repeated exposure in mundane situations. I agree... so why not host multiple dinners? On your own? I started hosting my own dinners[1] at my house every Wednesday and it's been fantastic. Really super great. I can't advocate it enough, especially for someone introverted like myself who may not want to go out of his way to interact with new peopl…
Wow. You had just what I had in mind. I created Strangers for Dinner to that extent. We've had about 4 dinner parties so far and they were pretty amazing. The amount of conversation you get with strangers, learning more about different people. Hope I don't sound too self-promotional, but you can check out Strangers for Dinner: http://strangersfordinner.com
I've got to upvote this one on its timeliness and relevance alone. Startups, take note.
It is my impression that they are a bit disingenuous, and actively using HN for promotion, playing the 'we're a startup' card as hard as they can. It might have been the "groupon is evil" post they made that gave me the sour taste, which had very few interesting points, and if nothing else, was just link baiting.
This was the post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4166021
You don't send mails, you start rumors ..