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Salesforce, but for Dating
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Re: Salesforce, but for Dating
#162Still not entirely certain this isn't just a really impressive parody, but for my sanity I am hoping it is. I think this says a lot about the "attention economy" way all the various dating and social apps take up your time to use them, and how we've digitized the process so much that people unironically see the appeal of a CRM system for managing contacts. Classic case of "new tech to solve the problems of all the ot…
I am sure it is not a parody. I have witnessed co-workers getting professional photographs and using spreadsheets to track dates/matches, all to carefully optimize their dating app success.
It reminds me of the early 2000s "pick up artist" stuff, I had a few friends who read the books and would actively hit on women anytime we went out. It was horrible haha.
As for the maker of this app, if it fills a need and gets widely adopted who knows?
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#163I 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.
A person on reddit actually made this app and it worked pretty well. I can't remember the name of it for the life of me.
you might be thinking of Monica? I seem to remember that coming out of reddit a while back, could be wrong
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#164I’ve been very actively dating and single for ages now. This is unequivocally a good idea if executed well. Is there a “notes” section so I can jot down details from dates to remember? That part is currently occupying my phone’s notes app.
Plethora of dates but can't add an "other" section in the contact in the contacts app. Of course.
Re: Salesforce, but for Dating
#165Interesting start, but missing the "powered by AI" element that analyses each date and computes compatibility and chances of things moving to the next level, suggests next step, auto-generates your text/voice script, etc.
(Also, tried to sign up by calling support but got an endlessly looping `We are experiencing higher than usual call volumes, one of our dating expert associates will be with you "shortly" (but remember that your call _is_ important to us)`
Re: Salesforce, but for Dating
#166Neat, this isn't the first time I've seen something like this come up so it essentially validates the use-case for them.
I remember seeing a post on Reddit[1] about ~4 years ago made by the same person who made this[2] post on HN about a year ago.
[1] Does anyone else use salesforce as PRM (Personal Relationship Management) System? https://archive.ph/3mB1U
[2] Show HN: Nat.app, personal CRM that knows who you're losing touch with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30836418
Re: Salesforce, but for Dating
#167Lol! 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 dat…
Lol No. It'd be min/maxed to fuck and then dump. How naive are you.
> dating hobbyist
Also, your use of hobbyist is so close to being on par (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hobbyist).
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#168I'm happily married for nearly 22 years and thankful more than ever I don't have to date in today's environment. This sounds awful. Like dystopianly awful.
Re: Salesforce, but for Dating
#169A lot of dunking going on in here, and fairly so, if nothing else because there is no good business model for an app like this unless they build it into dating apps (who's going to manually enter data from Tinder into this thing?). But the dunking seems to overlook the genuine problems with modern dating that didn't exist in the past. I find that it's very easy to mindlessly swipe a thousand people on an app and sudd…
different co's approach to the integration problem was via 'data grab by keyboard'
https://www.thekeys.ai/product
not sure about bidirectional data flow though -- maybe you can do that via accessibility interfaces?
Also possible that OSes will offer standard chat UX in the future, making it simpler to hook plugins into conversations -- ios already does this to some extent with imessage plugins, but 'tinder for imessage' is the opposite of 'imessage for tinder' so this is most useless bc of lock-in
Re: Salesforce, but for Dating
#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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…
Very true! While what you are saying is very true, dating so many people at once, plus having dated so many in the past that you need an app to keep track of them all is a whole other level of broken
The issue is that whereas in the past you could use "knowing somebody as an acquaintance and/or by association with an acquaintance" as the first stage of your "should I date somebody" funnel, you now get "here's a list of all the people in your who have signed up for a dating service, the marketing blurb they wrote about themselves, and some broad demographic filters; Have at it" as your initial filter.