I have chosen to do a site about getting people together for breakfast, lunch or dinner. I’ve gotten a few ideas but most of the sites are dating based. I would like to merge maybe people who just wants to meet new people. Many of these sites are pushing for relationships and marriages, and while the intentions are good. I feel that it is all forced into a great expectation on the first date. Without even seeing or contacting each other prior before the meeting.
My idea would be a site that I can gather singles and couples together. Sometimes we as people fall out of society and when we want to go somewhere. It might be the same people and while that can be comfortable to some. It can be boring to others, I’ve been on plenty of “dates” where I went out for the exprience, some of them were really great and others, I knew it would only be a one time deal.
Here are some of the sites I have chosen:
1)Lunch Spark
The good: I think this would be a good idea for people looking for somewhere new to eat rather than just eating at the same old place. It shows the top ten places among the area you placed your area code as well as genres of food that people have reviewed. Not just some food conseiur(?) that placed in the paper.
The Bad: I didn’t see anywhere that you could meet new people and there aren’t any real descriptions of the place. You are going based off of a review or some friends that might have suggested it to you.
Things I would consider: I would definately change the navigation. It’s all over the place! it’s on top, the sides and some are at the bottom. Some topics were related to each other but they spaced it all over the page. The colors are plain and I feel like upon clicking it, it just seemed like another page with a different picture.
2)Dinner Dates This is a Florida based site.
The good: It explains it alittle more detailed about how this site is ran. Showing that they can cater one on one or group dates. They even show Group dates that occur at certain events and dates. They also conduct interviews to best suit your interests and compatibility with another person.
The bad: I feel that while they seem to promote friendship while going to events, they are pressuring more on dating. There are various pictures of couples and their site seems to contradict itself in many aspects.
Things I would consider: I noticed on one or two other sites, they had some pre questionaires. It can or cannot be useful in this situation. The content is good quality but I feel there can be more descriptions or better details at the very least.
3)Lunch Dates A boston based site
The good: I would say that this is very nicely put together. If I was to put a site together, most of the content considered would come from here. I think they explain thoroghly what this site is about and how you can find someone to fit the same timeframe as yourself.
The bad: Again, I am looking for a site that is more human interaction. Not just another date sort of thing. And while they are good at what they have provided, I am looking for abit more expansion to my site.
Things I would change: Members only, I think that page shouldn’t have to be a page by itself, it has nothing but a logon and a password. Abit boring, I would have the login and password along the top or side of the page so when a user wanted to log in, they would have to click on an extra link to get where they wanted to go.
4) It’s just lunch milwaukee
The good: it has chalk full of stuff like most of the other sites did. It even showed the restaurants that they partnered up with. It even had some tips for dating, if you are serious for the dating aspect.
The bad: I didn’t see too much of the bad.
Things I would consider: I wasn’t sure what I would change. I would like to think more about it.
http://dallas.craigslist.org/mdf/stp/1395675635.html
http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/stp/1419926933.html
http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/stp/1416469157.html
A few of this listings are some of the ideas that I was thinking about. I used to make posts for replies on dinner dates and it was fun. But mainly a lot of this site became spamming and scammers.