Thursday, July 15, 2010

So what's next

Recently a friend and I have been sketching out the concept of building a dating website unlike anything you've ever seen. Bridging two very different ideas into a single entity, a prototype communication model currently under development over at google and the GPL model of freedom. Yes websites need money to stay afloat but why is it that some of the worst websites charge some of the most horrendous prices? Dating is about selling services, it shouldn't cost any money just to walk into a pub and start talking to someone, how exactly is this dating? What if we were to build a dating website which was free to walk into and didn't have all the restrictions of the existing models? What if instant messeger, email, games, fun and entertainment were all built directly into the fabric of the website itself? Communication is no longer a traffic light system, its the enabler of the perfect pick up line, how bout a game of something right inside the... lets call it a wave :) These waves will be central to the entire website people will be able to communicate in real time, schedule events and actually make mistakes like you would as if the person was right in front of you, no more construction of false selfs in static emails. Just you, me, us all as we should be... And fundamentally it will be free to use this communications system, no charge to the users and the only costs will be the addon services like the dating guru's automatic date construction or the automatic matching service. The are other ideas as well, to pull parts of some really awesome dating sites into this communication system, HTML5 has some location based API's that we'd love to use to help people connect based on where they are. Imagine being able to meet someone down the road, play a game of pacman or something random with them and ask down to your local pub just because you opened the iPhone app and used the fabric of the dating website to help you connect with your someone local? I'm excited, are you?...