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Startup idea #384826 - "Does this outfit make me look fat?" As A Service

I actually thought an interesting idea is an app that recommends you which dating site to use based on your face.

If you're good looking you can pretty much use whatever.

But for someone like myself who is ethnic and not visually attractive, my success rate is really low on certain sites and acceptable on certain apps.

For example, my performance on Match (Graphic I made: http://i.imgur.com/UZuSzD9.png) was pretty woeful in December. But I started using another app in the same week and had much higher success in getting responses relative to effort level.

I'm curious what worked for you, and if you have any similar data for other sites? Explaining cultural differences between dating sites/apps is something that I've tried to do multiple times, but I've never had any data to support my hypothesis.

So far I've only used Match and CoffeeMeetsBagel.

I've noticed that CMB now only matches me up with Asian women despite the fact that I'm open to dating any ethnicitiy.

I'll post my CMB stats in another time but unfortunately I can't read ethnicity/height preferences in the same fashion as I can with Match. It's a shame because it's really important data in helping me determine whether or not I should even pursue someone.

But I've bookmarked your name so that I can contact you when I gain a greater sample size for CMB and Eharmony (which I'll test soon)

I've often wondered how I'm effected. I'm half-Korean so I look Asian but I was born and raised in America and now live close to Georgia Tech. I wonder how many people assume I'm foreign.

When I was aggressively dating, I found that my success was prone to incredible fluctuations that I could never pin down. Keeping the site constant, anyway. I do suffer somewhat for being a certain flavor of queer that excludes a lot of heteronormative people.

Have it always says yes and then throw up an ad for FitBit. We're going to be rich.

"Free week at 24 Hour Fitness!" coupons!

I thought that was a use-case for the crowd-sourced opinion service Thumb.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/opinionaided#/entity

http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/26/thumb-social-polling-app-me...

This would be good if you can turn this into a mirror IoT device. (°ロ°) Just imagine how many people would buy this if Kim Kardashian got involved

i want to invest.

DTOMMLFAAS

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