The people behind OkCupid launch Crazy Blind Date

http://www.crazyblinddate.com

by natrius • 19 years ago

19 22 19 years ago

I absolutely love this idea and can't wait for it to expand. One lil' bug, though: when I finish the "add location" process, I get this message: "Fatal error: Call to undefined function drawError() in [...]date_wizard.php on line 655"

arashf• 19 years ago

fix it aston!

aston7• 19 years ago

Sweet. There's now a drawError(), but that still doesn't change the fact that you got to an error state. Do you remember what you did?

SwellJoe• 19 years ago

Two things sprung to mind:

They finally got a good designer.

Are they still using their custom C++ web application framework for building websites? (Which was answered in the negative by revolvingcur's comment, since he got a PHP error. At least they're moving up the abstraction curve somewhat.)

dhouston• 19 years ago

word on the street is they're moving to python for some of the back-end (coupla friends work at okc.) and php for the front-end.

aston7• 19 years ago

We're running CBD.com on PHP. That's been an adventure so far... There're a lot of hooks back into our core product, though, and that stuff's happening via RPC's. There's a tiny bit of C++ code, consequently, that came about for this app.

PS: I'll let our frontend folks know you like the design.

mrtron• 19 years ago

I tried signing up...and since I am not in the US the signup didn't work

the -OR- enter city, country is failing

omouse• 19 years ago

They should give a list of cities they support at the moment. I can imagine a lot of people getting frustrated by not being able to sign-up.

natrius2• 19 years ago

It's only live in Austin right now. According to the FAQ, if you enter another city, they'll tell you when they launch in your city.

imsteve2• 19 years ago

Actually, they only support a single city now.

falsestprophet2• 19 years ago

I clicked through it and as far as I can tell the user interface does not really accommodate homosexuals. They ask who you want to meet, if you say a girl they assume you are a boy and contrariwise.

I can see hate crimes coming out of this.

aston7• 19 years ago

We set you up for the date first, then we ask the personal details. You can tell us your gender and orientation later on (and they don't even have to match what you asked for on the date).

falsestprophet2• 19 years ago

How does this prevent a heterosexual male "seeking women" from being matched up with a homosexual male "seeking men"? If you pair those "seeking men" with those "seeking women?" I imagine your users may be upset if this confusion is a possibility.

chaostheory• 19 years ago

hopefully no one that uses the service will ever encounter a crazy (in a bad way) blind date. I wonder what their contingencies are for that scenario?

imsteve2• 19 years ago

HAH. Yeah right.

Everyone (women especially) will ditch this once they see how poor the average date partner is. That's my prediction.

viergroupie2• 19 years ago

Production quality software: Fatal error: Call to undefined function drawError() in /usr/local/www/cbd-live/date_wizard.php on line 655

aston7• 19 years ago

We're working on it.

viergroupie2• 19 years ago

Sorry about my previous snarkiness. Consider this a less obnoxious bug report: I again attempted to add a location. It appeared to work, but the final screen (following "We've recorded your info...") spits out: "Error...

Array ( [prev_page] => 18 )

Array ( [welcome_res] => 3 [when_res] => 3 [city_res] => 5 [other_city] => New York [not_there_yet_email] => elided@notmyemail.com [zipcode] => 10010 )"

On the up side, I think the design is slick and appealing. This will be a great page once you get the kinks worked out.

aston7• 19 years ago

Hmm. So much for the quiet launch.

I'll consider this thread an interactive bug queue...

natrius2• 19 years ago

Oops. :)

The people behind OkCupid launch Crazy Blind Date

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