Hey, we're thrilled you want more :) That message could be one of a few things:
- You have too few friends/friends of friends of the opposite sex
- Available suggestions don't meet your criteria because they're listed as married on Facebook
- Your Facebook friends are primarily in a different city
- Or a few other possibilities
Tried tapping the orange "Retry" button at the bottom? You'll have more suggestions available the moment another Facebook friend of yours signs up for Krush. Feel free to let someone know :)
Thanks for your interest, fruks! It means a lot to us.
Cheers
The Indian market is saturated with matrimonial services and there are no serious players in the casual dating market. Having said that, for now, we're focussing on giving people what they want :)
Thanks for taking the time to articulate this :) I just responded to lun4r about why the proximity-based model doesn't work in the East.
We're not sure if there is evidence that "big data" style network graph analysis of people's social circles works. But what we do know is that a lot of relationships materialize between friends of friends offline.
Having said that, we used that as the germ of an idea for Krush. We have some way to go before the algorithms are satisfactorily refined, but hopefully Krush will be "the evidence" that you're talking about.
I can't comment on CMB because it doesn't work here in India.
As for Tinder, the big difference is that it's primarily proximity based. While this works fine in the West, the realities in the East is completely different.
I'm a bit ashamed to say this, but the caste system is wired into every Indian at some level or the other. This means that certain schools, professions and ultimately people are perceived as being "above" others.
So, for example, it would be a big NO to connect a bartender with a journalist just because they happen to be in the same proximity. Or a pizza delivery guy to a law student for that matter. I went to college in the US and knew a bartender who dated a journalist, as well as a pizza guy who dated a law student. In the twenty odd years I've lived in India though, I have never come across such a thing.
The reality simply is society in the West functions differently from the East. A mutual friend being the core of your experience (as opposed to proximity) goes a long way in connecting people who belong to a similar social class/status and maintaining the quality of data.
There are a bunch of other things that significantly differentiate Krush from Tinder. Give Krush a try for a few days and you'll figure them out :) But thanks for your comment!
- You have too few friends/friends of friends of the opposite sex
- Available suggestions don't meet your criteria because they're listed as married on Facebook
- Your Facebook friends are primarily in a different city
- Or a few other possibilities
Tried tapping the orange "Retry" button at the bottom? You'll have more suggestions available the moment another Facebook friend of yours signs up for Krush. Feel free to let someone know :)
Thanks for your interest, fruks! It means a lot to us. Cheers