Truffle.io - let's make meeting someone very simple

http://www.truffle.io/

by pacifi30 • 14 years ago

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pacifi303• 14 years ago

Want to know opinions of you guys on my approach :)

Its dead simple, get verified through your email, upload your pictures and simply ask someone out for a date.

It take forever on current dating sites to meet someone primarily due to the fact that there is no trust and also there is too much back and forth messaging even before you have met the user in person

shanelja2• 14 years ago

It says "Beta launching with the following companies in Seattle" so I'm assuming you are only accepting applications from those companies at the moment?

How will you verify the person works at these companies, or that they are indeed working professionals in the future (once the scope presumably expands)?

One thing bugging me is that if all people have to go off is a photo, this could effectively just become a "pretty girl gets 1,000 date requests, not so pretty girl gets none, or some but only off sleazes" kind of service - not nice, but unfortunately it is the nature of us to mostly be attracted to people who are physically attractive when we have no more to go off.

Also, how do you know these people are matched at all? They could be completely unmatched - it only takes a few bad dates at the start to kill off this idea through people saying how terrible the service is.

Apart from these issues, I like the simplicity of the idea.

pacifi303• 14 years ago

For beta yes, I am only getting people from the companies that currently in Seattle but I am going to expand it further shortly.

Verification is done via the work email but once verified you ll able to change the email to your personal one as I assume that people dont like to use their work email.

So as you said, really online dating works only on pictures right now but the pictures is not about how you look, you can also put a pic of your bike and you going around that actually shows that you are a outdoor person. Everyone knows that the text/essays written on the dating site are not actually true.

Also, I have hooks in place to make sure that all the pretty girls don't get bombarded at the same time. As a user, you ll be presented with folks whose names start with 'A', 'M' on Mondays, 'B' & 'G' on Tuesdays and so on. This way a hot girl will only get messages two or three times a week depending upon the algorithm and she ll have a chance to take a look at the people who messaged her patiently as compared to scenario where she just dont even read the 1000 messages that she got.

shanelja2• 14 years ago

Just on a point - http://www.truffle.io/about - you seem to have left the content of a past ventures about page on here :)

pacifi303• 14 years ago

oops yah, I ll fix that. Thanks for pointing it out

anupamk• 14 years ago

Yeah, the current dating scene seems complicated than it needs to be. I'd love to see a minimalistic approach, and also know how you handle the matching task.

Truffle.io - let's make meeting someone very simple

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