speeddate.com – techcrunch40 demopit

by Jeremy Schoemaker on September 21, 2007 · 36 comments

I REALLY like this startup site. There is so much bullshit in profiles on dating sites… this lets people see each other in real time and weed through people until you find a match.

Check it out at speeddate.com

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1 Darin Carter September 21, 2007 at 10:32 am

speed date huh … what about stalkers on the site … LOL
Darin

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2 Nick Sullivan September 21, 2007 at 10:38 am

yeh pretty good. I preferred dopetracks though. Fed up of seeing dating sites.

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3 Instant Community September 21, 2007 at 11:09 am

Lol, that video that is ridiculous. I am tired of it as well Nick.

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4 Instant Community September 21, 2007 at 11:10 am

Infact, i think i noticed one these scripts leaked out before. Cant remember where tho.

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5 CPA Affiliates September 21, 2007 at 11:31 am

pretty cool. dating is everywhere!

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6 Blog Contests September 21, 2007 at 11:48 am

Great idea… great domain too!

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7 Kenneth Dreyer September 21, 2007 at 12:10 pm

Shoe, you horny bastard. have you been surfing for dating sites?

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8 Modern Worker September 21, 2007 at 12:24 pm

Awesome. These guys could be direct competition for Frind’s site due to a better design

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9 jim September 21, 2007 at 12:37 pm

hmmm an interesting concept, i’m surprised someone didn’t already do this honestly… then again, it’s hard to look popular (ie. make fake profiles) to start if you have real people there you know? chicken and egg…

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10 Gecko Tales September 21, 2007 at 12:48 pm

I, like most others, thought that online dating was for odd balls and pervs until I had one friend after the other meet their soulmates online. Everyone I know that met their spouse online has stayed together and seem to be very happy. I think there really is something to meeting someone online, especially if you are matched up well.
The next generation of lovers probably won’t think anything about going online for dates.

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11 Credit Card Offers September 21, 2007 at 1:05 pm

This seems like a great idea. It definitely has a market.
But I am sure the traditional online dating will continue to remain the big thing.

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12 Evelyn September 21, 2007 at 1:27 pm

Hum, It’s kind of scary. I think I’d rather look at a picture first than chat with them right away. How do you say “Uh, thanks but no thanks!”?

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13 Travel Notebook September 21, 2007 at 2:33 pm

wow this looks promising. Most people are shy at first though, so I wonder how people will react

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14 Jesper Jensen - Camar Laan September 21, 2007 at 2:34 pm

Yep – it´s cool and simple :-) great idea.

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15 Smart websites make money September 21, 2007 at 3:38 pm

It’s all about the next idea, right? Everybody’s searching for it. This may be a good one!

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16 Jonathan Volk September 21, 2007 at 4:57 pm

Their index page is impressive. I bet this will be huge.

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17 MyGoodFinds September 21, 2007 at 5:01 pm

yep, it’s a cool way to get a date alright. I think it’ll be BIG too.

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18 Kanute September 21, 2007 at 5:07 pm

Simply awesome, the next big idea…

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19 Israel September 21, 2007 at 9:01 pm

eh, online dating is overrated. Get out and find someone in person!

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20 Angela September 21, 2007 at 9:07 pm

Wow that is SMART.

I did quite a bit of online dating and not ashamed to admit it at all…lol. I saw it as just an easy way to weed out the people I didn’t want to meet and being someone who loves the internet it only seemed natural.
Anyway, this would have been really cool to have when I was dating. I met my boyfriend from an online dating site and we’ve been going out for over 2 years.
Angela

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21 wildcatsfan September 21, 2007 at 9:09 pm

i watched the video of woome.com, one of the top 40 companies selected to present at techcrunch40 and think they have a much better framework. check it out here

http://www.podtech.net/home/4162/woome-and-orgoo-launch-at-techcrunch40

their ceo claims its not solely limited to dating and can be applied to a variety of applications like finding a new roomate or even travel partners. i really like woome.com’s open approach to creating “speed sessions” and ability to see people BEFORE i decide to add myself to a session. anyway, you should probably also check out this company too before going down the speeddating path!

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22 Dean September 21, 2007 at 9:13 pm

lol, that site is crap. okcupid is free and rocks them all and has been around for years. q&a is much less creepy than video.

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23 King Jacob September 21, 2007 at 9:44 pm

Im not too big of an online dating fan, though Ive also never done anything with the sole purpose of snagging me a girl, so I guess I really dont get the mentality of I have to have a GF/BF,

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24 lyricsreg September 22, 2007 at 3:37 am

The online dating business will never grow old

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25 lyricsreg September 22, 2007 at 3:39 am

I don’t enjoy going out … inside GOOD – outside BAD

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26 Grivon September 22, 2007 at 8:37 am

Hah,, yea – he looks like he knows a world about dating :p But really though, good idea

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27 Kanute September 22, 2007 at 1:06 pm

Lets keep dating, now we have no excuses, there is speeddate

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28 rachelle September 22, 2007 at 1:21 pm

Do you have any archives of previous articles that you’ve written? I would love to read the others

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29 Theo September 22, 2007 at 1:48 pm

You’ll have to be good looking to put up a nice video. And good looking people don’t need dating sites.

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30 Tracy Robinson September 22, 2007 at 7:48 pm

Ha ha, that is what I was thinking, this is probably a case of where you get a good looking spokesperson to do all the talking if you are working in the dating niche.

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31 Unsecured Credit Cards September 23, 2007 at 8:15 am

Its a nice idea but traditional dating sites will continue to prevail.

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32 Beauty Girl September 23, 2007 at 5:00 pm

Live 3 minute dates … actually a nice idea and some thing out of the box …

What do you think Jeremy works better ? Thinking of out of the box ideas like this (trying to reinvent the wheel) OR doing what you know is working for others. Its very obvious that if you have a gem of idea the first one can do wonders… but is it actually worth the risk ?

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33 Seo Next September 23, 2007 at 11:40 pm

Thts cool website i already started using it.

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34 CatherineL September 28, 2007 at 3:19 am

This is a great idea. I have never done online dating before but my ex husband did, and he wrote a heap of bull in his profile. Too bad for him that he was too stupid to delete the history in his browser!

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35 Phoenix January 7, 2011 at 12:41 pm

and now its the top dating offer on many affiliate networks :)

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