What is the point of responding to a casual HN comment with a blog post, besides PR opportunity?
PR opportunity.
No, OkCupid, we don't want to "talk"
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Re: No, OkCupid, we don't want to "talk"
#12I will stake my reputation that the girl two up from the bottom left corner of blendr is "Good Girl Gina," but the image is flipped or something. For most of the dating apps it's pretty obvious how many accounts are fake.
That screenshot looks like it's full of professional photos. Either I need to get some better headshots or that's a mock-up made by Blendr.
Re: No, OkCupid, we don't want to "talk"
#13What fascinates me about the online dating market is that the optimal user experience is indirectly proportional to a customer's lifetime revenue in any site that is ad based or subscription based.
If a company was purely motivated by profit, I imagine that some clever use of ML would reveal an optimal ($ wise) timeframe for matching a user with their eventual mate (assuming their matching algorithm was perfect), and it wouldn't be 'as soon as possible'.
Too soon and you're missing valuable revenue, too late and the user gets frustrated and quits. Do companies do this? Probably not. As matching algorithms become more advanced and more people use online dating though...
Re: No, OkCupid, we don't want to "talk"
#14I will stake my reputation that the girl two up from the bottom left corner of blendr is "Good Girl Gina," but the image is flipped or something. For most of the dating apps it's pretty obvious how many accounts are fake.
That screenshot looks like it's full of professional photos. Either I need to get some better headshots or that's a mock-up made by Blendr.
You do need some better headshots most likely, but that's because any given person on OkCupid likely has terrible, terrible profile pictures.
Good resolution, good lighting, and bright colors. Fixing that can immediately significantly improve response rates (or give a response rate, as the case may be).
Re: No, OkCupid, we don't want to "talk"
#15I will stake my reputation that the girl two up from the bottom left corner of blendr is "Good Girl Gina," but the image is flipped or something. For most of the dating apps it's pretty obvious how many accounts are fake.
That was my exact reaction when I looked at that photo.
Re: No, OkCupid, we don't want to "talk"
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
That screenshot looks like it's full of professional photos. Either I need to get some better headshots or that's a mock-up made by Blendr.
You do need some better headshots most likely, but that's because any given person on OkCupid likely has terrible, terrible profile pictures. Good resolution, good lighting, and bright colors. Fixing that can immediately significantly improve response rates (or give a response rate, as the case may be).
I don't have a profile, but i do remember reading a pretty interesting OKCupid blog post correlating response rate to the quality of the camera taking the photo.
Here it is: http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/dont-be-ugly-by-accident/
Re: No, OkCupid, we don't want to "talk"
#17Honestly this felt like a very arrogant post. OKCupid may not be perfect, but it's far and away the best site out there, and loved by most of its users. Furthermore the founder wasn't a dick to you in his comment. So all in all, I'm not sure trashtalking him/OKC is going to help you.
I think OP could have used some "BloggingWithFriends". Maybe his friends could have helped proofread and tone down the perceived arrogance.
Notice how PG always thanks his proofreaders, even for seemingly short and pointed blog posts.
Re: No, OkCupid, we don't want to "talk"
#18I will stake my reputation that the girl two up from the bottom left corner of blendr is "Good Girl Gina," but the image is flipped or something. For most of the dating apps it's pretty obvious how many accounts are fake.
That was my exact reaction when I looked at that photo.
If you guys are talking about the pic in his post, that's not the author, that's the actual Elon Musk.
http://media.aerosociety.com/aerospace-insight/2012/11/23/vi...
Re: No, OkCupid, we don't want to "talk"
#19Are they trying to get some bigger company to buy them? Facebook and Twitter are a bit scary already having so much data about everybody. Even though I'm pretty open how and who I date, it still feels more comfortable to keep it in my circle of friends and family. Although I see the potential for this.
Well, if you take him for his word, he said he doesn't want to be bought out.
Re: No, OkCupid, we don't want to "talk"
#20Wow. I was iffy on the OP to begin with after he basically proclaimed that he had reinvented online dating by essentially cloning www.mysinglefriend.com, and this just confirms it.
This whole post smacks of arrogance. Essentially you want us to pat you on the back for giving a big, public “F you” to a competitor because you ASSUME that him wanting to chat means they want to acquire you? If this is how you act in casual online encounters then I’m starting to understand why online dating hasn’t worked out for you.