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Re: Inlu.st - new dating startup

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Post by alnayyir »

I'm male and not all that traditional, but the name is very conspicuous. I can only imagine the name making it even harder than usual to attract women.

The commentary about her personal life is...awkward.

Neat as it is that she dated the patron saint of modern JavaScript, I don't think that's going to help me get a date.

The geek content just makes me even more skeptical about bringing women and keeping them engaged, if it's any indicator of the greater aesthetic to the site.

That said, I hope it goes great and I wish you the best of luck. The world needs better dating sites.

Cheers.

Re: Inlu.st - new dating startup

#23

Post by tomh- »

From reading the intro text, this is not for people looking for serious relations (you shouldn't be looking for a soulmate). This is just for meeting new people and one-night stands? What problem does it solve and how?

Re: Inlu.st - new dating startup

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Post by d0m »

I find listing John Resig as ex-boyfriend kinda cool for a geek girl. I wish I could list Julia West as an ex-girlfriend for my next startup :) Would it kind of make me and Resig related? (Transitively speaking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitive_relation)

Anyhow, the website seems promising and I'm looking forward to see the "killer" feature that would make it different from other dating sites.

As a side note, I had an original idea for matching people that could be used for facebook. I talked about it with friends and they pretty much like it. So, if you're interested just get in touch with me and I will tell you.

Re: Inlu.st - new dating startup

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Post by juliamae »

I'm the founder of the site, and just want to point out that the submitter submitted the about page, which is not at all supposed to be the focus of the site. Please click the logo for the front page.

Re: Inlu.st - new dating startup

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Post by LaGrange »

juliamae wrote: post #13
thetrumanshow wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It will aways be harder to attract/keep women on a dating site than it will be to attract/keep men. That is why almost ALL advertising for dating sites on TV is targeted at women, IMO. Further, if you start with a domain like inlu.st, you are eliminating the % of women that actually care about long term relationships over one night stands. That is a very large %. Just my opinion. I have no data for you.

Ah yes. I'm not particularly going after LTR-seekers right now. Of course, this might change in time, and I suspect the name might have to change in that case.

Why not specialized frontends on a common backend? Common accounts for "inlu.st" and "solone.ly" or something, but with ability for activating/deactivating visibility on some domains.

I think that both the and community requirements can be very different for casual contact and ltrs, but there will be some natural mobility between those.

Re: Inlu.st - new dating startup

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Post by tibbon »

d0m wrote: post #25

I find listing John Resig as ex-boyfriend kinda cool for a geek girl. I wish I could list Julia West as an ex-girlfriend for my next startup :) Would it kind of make me and Resig related? (Transitively speaking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitive_relation ) Anyhow, the website seems promising and I'm looking forward to see the "killer" feature that would make it different from other dating sites. As a side note,…

The transitive relationship questions do make for some interesting conversations in dating. Things get even worse (or better?) when your social/dating network is really tight.

Re: Inlu.st - new dating startup

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Post by iterationx »

Edit: that's not the homepage.

Since I recently saw "The Social Network", its got me thinking that what dating sites are missing is exclusivity... isn't that why Facebook took off? ...because you were guaranteed that the members went to Harvard? Maybe a similar approach with dating sites is worth trying.

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