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Salesforce, but for Dating

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Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

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Post by scrumper »

calt wrote: post #17
kybernetikos wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember moaning about twitter reducing the number of characters people sent, and then yo! came out, and it was down to a single bit of data. That made me think 'what would even lower information content messages look like in a social network, perhaps half a bit or even less?'. I figured that a half bit of data would be where a social network sent some sort of hello message automatically with the same frequency the…

> Half a bit of data I’ve never heard that idea before and I love it.

Half a bit... yeah. I read a good description of a bit (I think in The Information by James Gleick) as "a yes or no answer to a single unambiguous question. I'm misremembering the quote but that's close enough.

So half a bit would be like hearing "Umm..." in response to that same question?

Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

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Post by random3 »

nlh wrote: post #65
random3 wrote: post #34

Can someone chime in why this hasn't worked in the past? It seems a personal/portable CRM could be highly useful. The second aspect is the vertical aspect (professional or "personal") One thing I keep hearing from people that have sold companies, exited etc. is that they are having a hard time operating within their networks without the CRM.

Yes. Having been in this space for a bit, there are a few reasons why it hasn't worked (yet): 1. The problem of deduplicating contacts is tough (but solvable). If you don't solve it well, then the utility of personal CRM goes wayyyyy down and you're getting notifications about the same people with different email / WhatsApp / Instagram addresses and that gets annoying. 2. People haven't shown a big willingness to pay…

I believe a plugin (e.g. in Obsidian, Notion, Superhuman) could work better than Monica. In fact I think Superhuman has the bets oppportunity to create this product.

Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

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Post by chuckwalter »

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.

This is where I'd like to go with FriendApp. Would love if you wanted to check out where we are right now with our iPhone app. https://www.friendapp.com/

Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

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Post by InitialLastName »

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

> dating as I define it is horribly broken

Socializing as a whole is broken, triggered by the disappearance of third places, the dissolution of communities at the altar of the nuclear dual-income family, live-at-work jobs and "hustle culture" (Veblen entrepreneurship), and the unlimited streaming doom-scroll.

With nowhere to go but work and home, good luck finding anyone to date or befriend via a nonexistent organic social network.

Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

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Post by natpalmer1776 »

rytis wrote: post #35
kybernetikos wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember moaning about twitter reducing the number of characters people sent, and then yo! came out, and it was down to a single bit of data. That made me think 'what would even lower information content messages look like in a social network, perhaps half a bit or even less?'. I figured that a half bit of data would be where a social network sent some sort of hello message automatically with the same frequency the…

> combined with ChatGPT we could even make those automatic getting-back-in-touch messages indistinguishable from the manual ones extending this bit further - we might as well reply with chatGPT. then it's chatGPT all the way down, who needs human interaction when we tick the boxes of "I called them" and "I replied"?.. :)

In this situation, neither party need be aware that the other party is 'antisocial' in this regard. The way I see it, the following situations apply for a tool that produces communication indistinguishable from the user's own writing (AI)...

"AI" for the following cases would be beneficial:

Social -> Antisocial

Social "AI" for the following cases would be net neutral:

Antisocial -> Antisocial

Antisocial And finally "AI" would be inapplicable (since neither party would use it) in the following cases:

Social -> Social

Social In this drastically simplified model, there aren't any cases where the existence of a sufficiently competent AI would be detrimental to any party involved, while still providing value for those who choose to use it.

Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

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Post by chuckwalter »

adrianmonk wrote: post #100
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.

I want one for remembering stuff about people for personal and business networking. For a while, I was going to a weekly event where I'd meet people, but I'd never remember their name next time because I'm terrible with names. So I started jotting down notes after it was over. Like, today I met person X who is really into this one hobby and just moved here from such and such city. And person Y who is looking for a ne…

I've been building FriendApp the past year. The core feature on iPhone right now is to just group people into lists, and preserve messaging integration with whatsapp, text etc. Trying to make it super simple. Also has ability to sync for recent contacts list. Would love feedback, and thoughts on the next features to iterate on.

https://www.friendapp.com/

Re: Salesforce, but for Dating

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Post by scrumper »

mmaunder wrote: post #41

Lol! Imagine a date with someone who’s hobby is dating.

I laughed when I read this but then I thought more and... wouldn't that be fun? Like, if it's their hobby and they're good at it, why would the date be bad?

Gardeners like their plants to grow big and healthy. Fishkeepers obsess over the health of their tanks. Musicians want to play more challenging music with better bandmates for bigger audiences on higher profile stages.

So if you were on the receiving end of a date orchestrated by a dating hobbyist, it'd be fun, probably unusual, definitely well organized. There are worse things to experience while dating. And, just maybe, you make a connection and form a relationship. But even the base case isn't _bad_ per se.

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