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"It's like Great Expectations but with airplanes." Any service that takes money from people by preying upon their dreams is inherently evil. This doesn't solve dating because it's unsolvable on purpose. Unplanned spontaneous clicking probably won't happen when it's the advertised goal. Joining interest groups on meetup would be infinitely better.
...and why didn't they raise the money to fly a planeload of eligible MEN to NYC?
According to a comment by the founder on the article, that's in the works going up online tommorow. They decided to do this one first because of winter weather in NYC vs SF.
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Majority opinion is that NY nightlife/dating life has higher ratio of girls to guys while SF has way more guys. So it doesn't mean standards are supposed to be lower, rather the ratio should even out between the 2 cities.
It's the "elsewhere is valuable" "logic." Protip for men: Davis, CA not during summer has the highest concentration of unmarried, college educated, single women of any college town in the US, outside the Boston metro. Thursday night is salsa night at The Grad. Get your silly colored sunglasses and go. The other trick is to have women fly out to meet you, oh wait, that one has an API now. :) Seriously, distance is ano…
curl -X POST https://thedatingring.com/api/v1/women -d '{"hair": "brown", "interests": ["me, duh", "froyo", "kale"]}'
=> {"flightNumber": 1525, "airline": "United", "departureTime": 201403051250, "arrivalTime": 201403051545}
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...because like Horoscopes, Magazines telling us what we should eat/wear/say, and the rest, Men don't generally fall for this kind of thing.
GQ, Maxim and FHM would beg to differ.
Open question: where do men here in SF try to meet women?
As a man, I have yet to see such a lack of single women in the city that would necessitate a project like this, even when I was dating around for 9 months.
Me thinks either standards are too high or don't go far enough out of your comfort zone. I could imagine being wrapped up in a startup, eat, breathing, sleeping it. And yes, not too many single women in the startup scene.
But startup != San Francisco, though it may seem that way from the news media.
During the Gold Rush, the gender ratio was about 50 men per woman. It got better with the years, but party organisers kept doing their damnedest to get women to go to their balls, inviting (and arranging for travel for) women from as far as Missouri, over the Pony Express.