Re:Show HN: Dating Site Without Pictures
by crooked-v on Sunday December 29, 2019 @01:26AM
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This kind of thing is why I feel like there's an untapped market in some kind of facilitated speed dating that does some kind of basic prescreening on mutual preferences (age range, want/don't want kids, general interests, etc) and sets up events when there's a sufficient 'pool' of people whose Venn diagrams all reasonably intersect.
Re:Show HN: Dating Site Without Pictures
by IG_Semmelweiss on Sunday December 29, 2019 @02:28AM
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Its pretty tapped in NYC. Theres a huge speed dating market there.
Pay the fee, exchange 5 minutes with 24 assorted people of your same age. Next!
This. So much this. Above all else.
Playing the whole game of an online back-and-forth "relationship" before the first meeting is annoying and exhausting. Honestly, it feels like a complete waste of time as well.
There will be a yay/nay decision made by at least one party, within the first FIVE MINUTES of that first in-person meeting, that will render EVERYTHING previously exchanged online to be completely irrelevant. Better to just get to that point as quickly as possible, and not kid ourselves about it.