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Lean approach to dating (truffle.io)
2 points by pacifi30 on Sept 7, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments


I am a girl and I think this is cool. I really don't like to ask guys "what do you do and where do you work?" but at the same time, I really dont want to date guys with no jobs. When are you planning to launch?


Exactly :) We are launching on September 16th. Sign up for our beta and we will send you the link to download the app


I hope the first page explain it all as to what we are trying to achieve. I have put lot of thought in designing the launch page and now need some feedback from you guys :)


Is there any matching algorithm? As presented, and it may be the case, it just seems like a large match up between companies. Reading the front page, it just says the person will be "new," nothing about the quality of the match.


So the biggest problem right now with the dating sites is that they are too many messages flowing from the guys and too many messages coming to the girls. Girls really can't decide between 100 messages send to them. To tackle this issue, for the start we are only going to show people whose name start lets say with 'A' and 'C' on Mondays and 'M' and 'V' on Tuesdays and say on. This way people it will easier for folks to decide


I hope this means there will be lean hookups. Anything past the first date or few drinks is really a questionable use of investor's funds.


So our monetization model is to have the "date" initiator pay for a date once his or her date is accepted. To be honest, we want people to only pay when they get a date. I hate subscription to its core. Generally dating sites makes money on subscription which if you think about is saying "We(match.com, eHarmony etc) hope you dont get a date because then we will stop making money"




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