HumanamuH

Thanks a lot for your clarification and for the very interesting link!

According to the map of date formats in the article, there are a lot of people worldwide who use this format outside of an engineering context.

On HumanamuH I'm using "yyyy-mm-dd" or "mm-dd hh-mm" wherever several dates are displayed in a column (e.g. chat messages or notifications). I think it's easier to see where the day or month changed and it's sorted intuitively. But...

Several people who registered from the US stumbled over the form that lets you enter your birthday in "dd-mm-yyyy" format. Even though the format is explained right behind the form field. They were probably just as irritated as the majority of the world is by "mm-dd-yyyy". Not sure if using "yyyy-mm-dd" for birthdays works better internationally.

Maybe changing the format depending on the IP address would reduce confusion. Of course, users could also have an option to localize their date formats, but I assume most wouldn't want to bother.

By the way, the article contains Wikipedia's map of "Date format by country" which answers your question why nobody is using the ISO format for dates (some do):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country#Map

Thanks for the clarification. HumanamuH isn't fixed to either non-private or professional contacts. Its purpose is to meet people who you find worthwhile to meet. Whether you decide to go on vacation with them or do business is up to you.

Stating that one isn't looking is meant to allow people to discourage dating requests if they aren't interested. Some people would certainly love to tell all their co-workers that they weren't looking for a partnership upfront. :-)

With the registration process I wanted to make sure to have a valid email address of every user. Otherwise people might start using the site, forget their passwords and then ask me to give them access to their accounts in order to not lose their established contacts.

I hope that knowing what people intend to talk about and intend to do makes meeting people online a better experience. Especially in combination with predictions.

After reading online profiles, I often feel that I'm still missing something to decide whether I want to meet that person. Knowing about favorite movies or brands or whether someone is bad at describing himself, doesn't tell me much.

True. I'm not sure how to effectively prevent harvesting. Limiting the rate at which profiles can be fetched only goes so far.

I'm open for suggestions on how to improve the wording. Quite tricky that languages are so overladen with all sorts of meanings. Especially challenging if it's not one's first language.

Just curious. Did you read the current tag line, the landing page and the tour and still felt that you've got no idea what it's all about?

Actually, there isn't a gender requirement. It's optional.

I am not sure if there is a general social network burnout. Maybe it's specific to social networks with lots of noise, likes, shares, news, ads and so on?

At least one new user told me that this was a social network that he can actually imagine to use.

> Do you aim private life meetings or not only?

Sorry, I don't understand the question.

Can you elaborate what felt tedious to you?

Ah, thanks. I haven't yet finished testing all post codes. ;-)

I am not doing any machine learning (yet). If the site takes off a bit and generates some data, I expect optimizing the prediction algorithm will become a top priority. Accurately predicting human relationships sounds incredibly hard.

Currently, it's looking how similar your ratings are to the ratings of others. Similar people will influence your predictions more strongly.

The declared goals or intentions are currently not affecting predictions. And I'm doubtful if they should. Any opinion on this?

Do you know what made you think it was a dating site? The wording?

I thought "meeting people" was quite neutral.

I didn't expect so much love for the name as I've got mixed opinions before making HumanamuH public.

Please let me know what was mysterious to you. (If it's not too mysterious for you to know...)

(My reply mysteriously disappeared. Second try...)

HumanamuH is not meant to be a dating site in particular. But I assume wherever people meet, some of them will want to date. I like the idea of HumanamuH bringing love to the world, so I'm fine with it.

The possibility to state one's orientation and whether one is looking for a partner is there for at least two reasons.

If you don't want to date, you can make that clear upfront. Hopefully this will reduce unwanted requests.

If you want to date, it's easier for everyone involved if the orientation is known beforehand.

Edit: Not sure if my comment still fits as the parent has been edited. I'll try to update it later on.

It's not intended to be a dating site in particular. But I assume that wherever people meet, some of them will want to date. I like the idea of HumanamuH bringing love to the world, so I'm fine with it.

By providing some fields like orientation and whether someone is looking for a partner, I hope to give people who don't want to date a way to make that clear upfront. And those who want to date a way to make it clear what they are looking for.

If, for example, someone is in a partnership and not interested in dating, it's possible to add this info to his or her user profile. Hopefully this will minimize dating requests for them.

That's a pity. I cannot remember anyone else telling me that it was spam filtered. But that doesn't have to mean anything.

Do you have any suggestions what I could improve to make these emails pass?

Glad you like the idea!

I'll think about suggestions for the "intentions" field. However, I don't want to suggest something that will end up in most profiles. Priming is powerful.

I expected someone would bring up Facebook integration. :-)

As someone who doesn't use Facebook and who has some issues with it, I haven't even considered integrating it and I'm not sure how much the profile data would match. I don't intend HumanamuH to become an advertising column, so much for sure.

Can you suggest anything besides photos that would fit the current HumanamuH profile?

I haven't yet decided on how much of "how does it work" I want to make public.

Regarding your second question. I thought the landing page and the tour would answer "what it does". Sorry. Obviously, I'd be very curious to know what it didn't tell you. But if you haven't registered, you probably can't answer this question.

I'm not blocking any email domains, so feel free to use some trash mail address, if you want to have a look without sharing your email address.

It would be great if I had a big enough graph to answer your question. Hopefully this will change. It would be very interesting data.

My hope is that, given enough users, there will be many predictions across existing hierarchies.

Interesting idea. If one doesn't want to leak any profile information, one could only show the number of results to non-users but not the actual profiles.

Of course, it's very hard to prevent any malicious use of the profile data.

I'm glad you like the idea. I am working near full time on it. Who needs weekends anyways?

Yes, I understand your point. I didn't want to share the user profiles with non-users. I also haven't looked into how easy it would be to harvest profile pictures and profile data. Any thoughts on this?

... and it will let you meet them.

Hi everyone! I'd much appreciate your feedback, ideas, questions etc. regarding HumanamuH [1].

HumanamuH is all about efficiently meeting people who you find worthwhile to meet. It works like this:

1) You search for people

2) You talk to them

3) You rate them

4) HumanamuH predicts who else is worth meeting

Your predictions are based on people who like and dislike the same people as you do. It's important to note that people don't get a global rating, so there won't be good and bad people. There will only be people who are more or less likely to find meeting each other worthwhile.

There are still many issues I have to work on. The biggest challenge I am currently facing is to get users in order to find out how people feel about HumanamuH. If you have any advice on how to "go viral", I'd be happy to listen.

[1] Why this name? Its slogan is "Where humans meet." therefore "Human" meets "Human" => "HumanamuH".