Showing posts with label dating. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dating. Show all posts

Monday, November 16, 2009

Idea: FriendHitch - Online dating with a difference

You know why online dating is so unpopular these days, its because sweetgirl18 is a 24 year old Tom and hot_chick_for_you is 38 years old Harry, promoting his home business. When angel_gal1989 and jenny362635 eventually decide to meet up in a community park, it so happens that they're both straight and looking for girlfriends.

The problem is that you cannot have a background check for each and every individual who is signed on for a dating web service. Even if you can verify the individual using their credit card, social security etc, you still cant verify if the person is as legit as he/she may look.

FriendHitch, is the idea of a social networking app for dating. Its uniqueness would be in the fact that it would only provide you results from your friends' friend lists. The app, when being used to search for a probable date, would scan the user's friends' friend list to identify singles. The singles would then be matched with the user's age, location, interests et all and returned in the most probable matches. The app would also allow users to specify a lot more than just age/location etc, this would help in searching for matches on a broader criteria. Thus once someone uses the app to find a date, the app would send a notification to the identified date and give both of them a platform to interact. It would even send a notification to the common friend to spice things up and request him/her to arrange a meeting if he thinks you'll click instantly. Since both, the user and the identified date would have a common friend, they would need to worry very little about the authenticity of the other person and could also get to know more about them.

Disclaimer: This post is not based on any personal need and the idea was just an accident between disfunctional grey cells and paranormal grey cells in the author's so called brain. However, the author definitely thinks this idea is a killer and would be an instant hit.

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Idea: BizJigSaw: Matchmaking for startups and businesses


Finding a date for the weekend is a matter of few clicks these days thanks to the numerous dating websites that help us finding a partner. These partners however have a probability of 90% to be just for a weekend or two.
But, if you're into finding like minded entrepreneurs to have a life long relationship, there's basically nothing except the likes of LinkedIn. It just boils down to 'Weekend meetings are abundant and Weekday meetings are scarce'.

This idea involves the setting up of a dating like website, only, it will make matches between entrepreneurs and available resources. Any entrepreneur can setup a profile describing the nature of business they're planning to start/operating in, the positions they want to fill up, the capital base et all. Those who are just willing to be a part of a startup/business can create a profile and offer service in their domain of expertise. The website will then make matches on earth. There are a dozen websites thriving on the net to provide resources to Startups but none of them is currently providing human resources in this extremely convenient fashion.

Let the professional matchmaking begin!