For real, though, there's gold in this one:
Online dating. Totally a thing. People look at pictures of one another on the internet and then decide to go on a date, and then they maybe meet in the real world at some point in the future. What it needs, with cell phones, is to be dropped down to a micro level. Faster. Smaller. An app that will use the gps on smartphones to find where the user is, then look in its database for other users nearby, display a little menu, and people can instantly meet up with people within some blocks or a mile or whatever they set it to. They can have options for if they're looking for a coffee date or just to chat and kill fifteen minutes while their oil is changed or if they want to make out in the back of a laundromat.
As far as I know this niche market is going totally unserviced (I just looked for probably two minutes, so I might be wrong), and I think it could be absolutely lucrative. Also great. Who doesn't want to have a maybe awkward conversation instead of sitting alone? Who doesn't want to sit next to a friendly stranger in a movie they went to alone?
Bam. Get on it.
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5.21.2011
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They already have this! There is some app for it.
ReplyDeleteWHAT?
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Also, are you using this? Let's be cellphone proximity friends.