Thanks to all of you who took the IsACatch Quick Questionnaire! The results were very informative and will, without a doubt, help us improve IsACatch. If you are curious, the results of the survey can be viewed here:
Help us help your friends by filling out this quick questionnaire! It will only take literally 1 minute, and will help us understand our users better so that we can make IsACatch better.
One reason we created IsACatch was to take some of the stigma out of online dating. We realize that a lot of people aren’t comfortable hunting the web for eligible dates, so we figured having your friends help you would make it a lot more comfortable on you. We’re still testing out this theory, but would love to hear if we’re actually on to something, or just plain crazy. Here are some interesting online dating facts from “Online Dating Magazine” - I can’t believe that actually exists.
- More than 20 million people visit at least one online dating service a month.
- There are more than 120,000 marriages a year that occur as a result of online dating.
- 31% of adults in America say they know someone who has used an online dating service.
- It is estimated that the financial growth of online dating will reach $642 million in 2008. (whoo hoo! good for us if we charged)
Also interesting for IsACatch:
- Sixty-three percent of married couples meet through a network of friends. (Yes!)
What do you think, is online dating any easier when trusting the good advice of your friends?
Hello all! As you may have read below, the IsACatch website is built entirely with RoR, however there is another arm of the IsACatch project that you may not be aware of: the Facebook App! The app is called “Date My Friend”, which may be a little confusing, however I will shortly explain why we chose a different title.
The concept in this app is the same as the website: announce to the world that you have single friends, and try to match them up with good people who won’t break their hearts into a million invisible shards. After you create a campaign, you can invite their friends (and yours) to add their support to the campaign.
We also added a simple recommendation feature for the campaigns you create. It’s easy to recommend good matches to your friends campaigns: just type in their name!
We changed the name on Facebook from “IsACatch” to “DateMyFriend” for a simple reason: when you’re searching through miles of apps, we wanted to use the most obvious name possible to catch peoples attention. When you come to the IsACatch homepage, there is enough space to give you information on what IsACatch is about. In the Facebook Applications catalog, we don’t have that luxury, so we went with an obvious name that captured the essence of IsACatch.
