by siong1987 on 6/5/13, 8:45 PM with 50 comments
by CodeFoo on 6/5/13, 10:40 PM
Yet people keep making them. Am I correct to deduce they are popular and there is market for them, and that it's only HN that hates them?
by gkoberger on 6/5/13, 11:44 PM
Semi-related, but Tim Ferriss has an interesting story about how he "outsourced his love life": http://blog.timferriss.com/1/post/2009/07/how-to-tim-ferriss...
by cupcake-unicorn on 6/6/13, 12:34 AM
by GhotiFish on 6/6/13, 12:26 AM
Ah no, that's a US zip code you're asking for. I'm very familiar with the US zip code, you see, as most US based web services present themselves as a global service rather than a US based one, and the zip code is often the only sign that they arn't catering to my nation.
by pacifi30 on 6/6/13, 2:50 AM
We tried doing work email verification but users revolted against that and we have to revert back to linkedIn. I guess people on HN are right when they say that facebook logging is instant turn off but for some people entering email address and password is even bigger.
Also yah I like your service, though you are my competitor but 75$ is a lot. Try out making it a coffee, first date at a bar is a big sell.
By the way, if anyone of you here on HN are from Seattle and looking to grab a coffee with someone interesting, try out www.jointruffle.com :)
by bobwaycott on 6/6/13, 7:08 AM
I'd be tempted to sign up with Facebook and receive a reply on exactly what kind of person you'd try to connect me to, given what you glean from FB.
If you got it right, I'd be a step closer to giving you money (if you operated near me). If you got it wrong, and I freely admit that I expect you will, I'd keep my money.
Either way, I am able to determine the quality of your service. I regularly spend $75 in a bar and have no trouble meeting people, despite how busy I am. You don't provide a compelling reason to give that $75 to you instead of my friendly local bartenders.
Meeting people isn't the problem. Meeting the right person, with whom I'd be interested in more than sharing a few drinks and conversation, is the problem. My closest friends of more than a decade, who know me exceedingly better than FB, have routinely tried to connect me with someone or other. Not one has been the right fit.
Hell, just cos I'm feeling generous, I'd even give you a hint and say one of your staffers has the look. But that wears off in about 2.3 minutes.
DoubleHell, just cos I'm feeling that much more generous, let me suggest (if you haven't already thought of it) that you mesh HN activity with FB activity for an even better understanding.
Sadly, to my knowledge, we haven't yet figured out a way to determine likelihood of chemistry between superficially compatible people. Perhaps I'm just a naysayer, but until we can figure that out, online dating just isn't working. Apparently almost 75% of US single people have tried online dating. Only 20% have found committed relationships (assuming that's everyone's goal, which it isn't).[1]
We need a chemistry detector, not a compatibility detector (machine or human).
[1]: quick search leads me to stats from 2012 at http://www.statisticbrain.com/online-dating-statistics/
by jacques_chester on 6/6/13, 2:51 AM
What happens if someone is stood up?
What happens if you have a skewed ratio of men to women?
by IvyMike on 6/6/13, 4:29 AM
by quotemstr on 6/6/13, 4:52 AM
by damoncali on 6/6/13, 4:49 AM
by nvr219 on 6/6/13, 12:49 AM
by chenyuwang1988 on 6/6/13, 3:11 AM
Seems doing similar things but targeting different group of people.
by carbocation on 6/6/13, 4:35 AM