actually, i am in nyc! drinks sometime would be excellent - drop me an email at my HN username @gmail.
i checked out your blog and we definitely share a lot of the same ideals about sex- very cool. as a heads up, your blog's RSS feed is broken right now.
i don't have a problem meeting guys. i have a problem meeting guys that i feel any lust for. that's a big problem among the people i know who are looking for lovers on- and offline.
however, i hear the odds are much better for single women in SF than NYC. so if this site doesn't work out for me, i know where i'm moving next..
cool, i haven't heard of heyfoxy, but i love the image on the front page. i'll check it out. there is a focus on sexuality, but it is not a hookup site anymore than reddit or tumblr are hookup sites. i don't see us as competitors, i see us as friends!
excellent feedback; i'll definitely qualify that line with something more meaningful.
as for the name, i'm actually specifically not going after a geeky crowd (which is why my heart kinda fell out of my chest when i saw it was submitted to HN) and am initially going for younger, artistic, NYC singles. the name is designed to attract the kind of people i want on the site for now.
i think that if you entered the site on the homepage, as intended, and then went to the about page, it would be pretty obv how to get back.
thanks for your comments on this thread! you seem to understand the female online dating problem as i do, and it's nice to have another female backing me up on here.
thanks for the feedback; I really wasn't sure how that would come across to random strangers.
TBH, it is kind of hard for me to meet people online now. sure, i could go on OKC and find a hundred dates tonight, but most likely feel no emotional connection to those people. i'm trying to capture the vulnerable spirit of my early years on the web and create an environment where people who can actually connect with each other.
I'm the founder of the site, and just want to point out that the submitter submitted the about page, which is not at all supposed to be the focus of the site. Please click the logo for the front page.
Ah yes. I'm not particularly going after LTR-seekers right now. Of course, this might change in time, and I suspect the name might have to change in that case.
hi, i'm the founder of this site and am actually quite curious what you mean by this. do you think the feminine design will scare men away? or do you think the name will scare women away?
i agree. i was really excited to play with this but was super let down by the clunky and confusing interface.
for example, it seems like the whole point of the service - to tag stuff with locations - is one of the hardest things to do. the only way i've been able to add a hyperlocation to my "dashboard" (instead of profile?) is by randomly seeing a link in the search results. i'm not sure why with their new design they couldn't add that link to the hyperlocations sections of my "dashboard."
i am! i was pleasantly unsurprised to see dating as number one! (read as "i thought it would be, and laughed when i saw it was"). the reason most dating sites fail is that people keep building the same site again and again but with different branding. i think the problem can be solved by completely changing the experience. that's what i'm staking my savings on anyway.
thanks for building this. i would love to use twitter lists, but find their UI makes it totally impossible to create and maintain lists.
however, i am having problems getting anything useful out of this tool either. the first search i wanted to do was for people i follow in X location. i attempted to use the bio field, but whatever i search for in bio ends up with an @ in front of it, and it doesn't seem like it's searching the location field anyway.
also, it would be chill to be able to search for people i follow that have tweeted about, say, ruby in the past two weeks or something so that i can easily put them into a "rubyist" list or something.
its nice to just see everyone in one place in one list with checkboxes, which makes this nicer than twitter's list interface, but i have a feeling based on the filters (number of followers? twitter client?) that this tool wasn't designed with the average user for personal use in mind.