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Re: How About We Disrupt Online Dating

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Post by true_religion » Fri, Apr 22, 2011, 5:35 AM UTC

Goladus wrote: post #9

amccloud wrote: post #4

Disrupt online dating is something i'm trying to accomplish with http://cupick.com/ (I haven't officially launched it yet) One of the issues I had with sites like Match or okCupid was gender bias. Men get few messages from women and women get overwhelmed with the messages from men. My solution to this was to add a moderator (the public) to recommend and filter potential matches and who you can message.

Interesting idea, but it's highly unlikely that people will get involved with a dating site when registration is a requirement for even seeing the site.

Most "adult" dating sites are like that---populating their splash pages and galleries with fake profiles, and only allowing you to see the real thing after registration.

Also, marriage oriented or dating sites for single ethnic groups often do the same (or have no gallery at all till registration).

Re: How About We Disrupt Online Dating

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Post by Goladus » Fri, Apr 22, 2011, 1:28 PM UTC

true_religion wrote: post #11

Goladus wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting idea, but it's highly unlikely that people will get involved with a dating site when registration is a requirement for even seeing the site.

Most "adult" dating sites are like that---populating their splash pages and galleries with fake profiles, and only allowing you to see the real thing after registration. Also, marriage oriented or dating sites for single ethnic groups often do the same (or have no gallery at all till registration).

In the case of ethnic and religious sites, a fairly promising and probably reasonably accurate description is given. In the case of adult sites, that's just fraudulent and flat out lying to people can be an effective way to get at least some registrations.

Re: How About We Disrupt Online Dating

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Post by gonehome » Fri, Apr 22, 2011, 4:58 PM UTC

I have a site idea I'm working on that I think can disrupt online dating. Current online dating sites don't solve a problem. Even OkCupid which perfected the current implementation of dating sites only provides what are essentially just profiles.

My idea uses a more social approach, have people tag those they're already interested in (friends or acquaintances) and notify both parties if and only if there is a mutual interest (both groups tag each other), otherwise wait.

This method is 'rejection free' and solves many of the problems associated with dating in a way that incentives users to reveal their true interests.

I want to localize it to colleges only at first so there already exists a somewhat 'trusted' community. I think this idea solves a lot of the problems commonly associated with dating.