8) Dating. I have been trying online dating for about 4 weeks now. I am damn near close giving up. The process is too damn painful and it nows seems it is much much much easier at a bar.
If anyone wants to take a crack at it, here what I would advise you build: A simple app that asks you your very very basic info (name, picture, age, location, add 20 word description of yourself). Then simply, simply, simply show me pictures of women. If I like a girl I click "like". If the girls Likes me as well, then we can email each other. I dont need to email her through on your app. You can use the craigslist email style.
That's it. Nothing else. No video chat, IM, levels of communication etc... I don't know about girls, but most guys will only talk to women they are attracted to, no personality match can do the trick if I do not like what I see.
The fundamental thing to attack when considering dating is how to get enough people to use it and keep enough people using it; not the semantics of the site.
I think the basic problem with a site that operates like you suggest is that attractive women tend to not need dating sites. The same is true, probably to a lesser extent, of attractive men.
I know a few very attractive women who use dating sites, because it is quicker and more time effective than any other approach. They have jobs which take up most of their time and they don't want to spent the little free time they have trawling for partners. Don't think of dating sites as a service for people who cannot get dates any other way, think of it as a service for people who don't have the free time.
If anyone wants to take a crack at it, here what I would advise you build: A simple app that asks you your very very basic info (name, picture, age, location, add 20 word description of yourself). Then simply, simply, simply show me pictures of women. If I like a girl I click "like". If the girls Likes me as well, then we can email each other. I dont need to email her through on your app. You can use the craigslist email style.
That's it. Nothing else. No video chat, IM, levels of communication etc... I don't know about girls, but most guys will only talk to women they are attracted to, no personality match can do the trick if I do not like what I see.