Love the name. Clever. The website is a little more mysterious than I'd initially like, but I'll give it a try. I wish you success with this!
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#22FYI - the confirmation email ended up in my spam folder. I'm not sure if that's gmail's default behavior or whether I've encouraged it to be a little too agressive, something to watch out for though.
That's a pity. I cannot remember anyone else telling me that it was spam filtered. But that doesn't have to mean anything. Do you have any suggestions what I could improve to make these emails pass?
Use the most trusted e-mail sending service you can find and afford. Don't roll your own. Spam has made e-mail such an untrustworthy system that your e-mail's origin has to have a track record, these days.
You'll find a continuum of options for e-mail sending services. I'd pick the one that's most trusted within reason, not necessarily the "best deal." To me, it's an image thing: every time your e-mail ends in a Spam folder you let that user down a little. If they do find it, you've still disappointed them a little.
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#23I think I got the point of the website finally. You should probably consider removing the sexual orientation of the profile informations, at least for a time, because it can be misleading about the goal of the website.
(My reply mysteriously disappeared. Second try...)
HumanamuH is not meant to be a dating site in particular. But I assume wherever people meet, some of them will want to date. I like the idea of HumanamuH bringing love to the world, so I'm fine with it.
The possibility to state one's orientation and whether one is looking for a partner is there for at least two reasons.
If you don't want to date, you can make that clear upfront. Hopefully this will reduce unwanted requests.
If you want to date, it's easier for everyone involved if the orientation is known beforehand.
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#24Are you doing any machine learning? Are you using an Amazon style recommendation system where instead of recommending people based on overall rating you're looking for poeple user's like me rated highly (based on the ratings we've given to other people so far and our declared goals for the site?)
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#25FYI - the confirmation email ended up in my spam folder. I'm not sure if that's gmail's default behavior or whether I've encouraged it to be a little too agressive, something to watch out for though.
That's a pity. I cannot remember anyone else telling me that it was spam filtered. But that doesn't have to mean anything. Do you have any suggestions what I could improve to make these emails pass?
I'd go with sendgrid. I hook up their api to every app I build.
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#26Love the name. Clever. The website is a little more mysterious than I'd initially like, but I'll give it a try. I wish you success with this!
I didn't expect so much love for the name as I've got mixed opinions before making HumanamuH public.
Please let me know what was mysterious to you. (If it's not too mysterious for you to know...)
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I haven't yet decided on how much of "how does it work" I want to make public. Regarding your second question. I thought the landing page and the tour would answer "what it does". Sorry. Obviously, I'd be very curious to know what it didn't tell you. But if you haven't registered, you probably can't answer this question. I'm not blocking any email domains, so feel free to use some trash mail address, if you want to h…
I almost didn't sign up because I couldn't really tell what this was. I went ahead anyway and when I finally saw the landing page I thought, "Oh it's a dating site. No thanks."
Do you know what made you think it was a dating site? The wording?
I thought "meeting people" was quite neutral.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I almost didn't sign up because I couldn't really tell what this was. I went ahead anyway and when I finally saw the landing page I thought, "Oh it's a dating site. No thanks."
Do you know what made you think it was a dating site? The wording? I thought "meeting people" was quite neutral.
The gender requirement. Even if you removed that stuff it's already too much work to maintain my LinkedIn account the couple other social networks I'm on. I'm not sure what you can do to mitigate social network burnout while still achieving your goal.
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#29Small postcode bug, it won't accept "PE29 3EW" in the UK.
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#30Are you doing any machine learning? Are you using an Amazon style recommendation system where instead of recommending people based on overall rating you're looking for poeple user's like me rated highly (based on the ratings we've given to other people so far and our declared goals for the site?)
I am not doing any machine learning (yet). If the site takes off a bit and generates some data, I expect optimizing the prediction algorithm will become a top priority. Accurately predicting human relationships sounds incredibly hard.
Currently, it's looking how similar your ratings are to the ratings of others. Similar people will influence your predictions more strongly.
The declared goals or intentions are currently not affecting predictions. And I'm doubtful if they should. Any opinion on this?