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A developer at SEOmoz built a dating site from concept to launch in 66.5 hours.
The first month of being online Mingle2 had around 90,000 unique visitors. By July the site’s popularity exploded, seeing nearly 700,000 uniques and 1.9 million page views for that month alone. Being the founder (and a user) of the website, this has been the most interesting and rewarding website I’ve ever been involved with. Before long I started getting emails from various other dating websites and investors and after countless sleepless nights trying to decide what I wanted to do, I put my indecisiveness to rest and sold Mingle2 to JustSayHi, a competing dating website. I chose JustSayHi primarily because their aspirations are very aligned with mine; we both want this property to be synonymous with free online dating, much like how craigslist has become synonymous with free classified ads.
This is the kind of guy who could give PlentyOfFish a run for their money and he’s only 25. I love hearing stories like this.
The reality of building a dating site is that it usually takes a lot longer to get buy-in from all parties involved, a solid workable game plan in place and all of the behind the scenes bit-wrangling that happens when building any software from the ground up. Eharmony spent something like 3-5 million to get up and running and on solid ground.
I had to share some inspiration for all of you out there sweating through the development of your new dating sites. Now get back to work!
Category:Dating Software, Startups, Technology Tags: dating-software - free_dating - mingle2 - Startups - TechnologyBlog reactions
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1 myWattle Dating » Blog Archive » How To Build a Dating Site in 8 days // Sep 20, 2007 at 9:06 pm
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2 myWattle Dating » Blog Archive » Comment on How To Build a Dating Site in 8 days by myWattle Dating … // Sep 21, 2007 at 9:56 am
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Tom (Check me out!)
// Sep 21, 2007 at 10:30 am
Who cares about developing a site in 66.5 hours!
His real secret is the incredable amount of unique visitors he found. Must be something to do with being a developer for SEOMoz.
4 Great Expectations Dating » How To Build a Dating Site in 8 days // Sep 21, 2007 at 1:46 pm
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Anne (Check me out!)
// Sep 23, 2007 at 9:15 pm
I have a new website http://www.pluscupid.com. Can anybody give me some advice on how to increase the traffic?
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Matt (Check me out!)
// Sep 24, 2007 at 12:35 pm
In looking at his data on Alexa, Compete and Quantcast, the number of uniques would appear to be highly exaggerated. Are there something these sites are missing?
7 Dating » How To Build a Dating Site in 8 days // Sep 24, 2007 at 10:09 pm
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8 Dating » Comment on How To Build a Dating Site in 8 days by Tom // Sep 24, 2007 at 10:10 pm
[...] caminoprosise wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptWho cares about developing a site in 66.5 hours! His real secret is the incredable amount of unique visitors he found. Must be something to do with being a developer for SEOMoz. [...]
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zoe (Check me out!)
// Oct 8, 2007 at 3:19 am
Is it so easy? I spent tens of thousands of dollors and more a year with more than 10 expers to build my site http://www.agelessfriends.com .
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Kenneth (Check me out!)
// Jan 21, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Wow, all these stories and I scratch my head. So I hear 66.5 hours. Geeze, and I have been building a site Alaskamate for roughly 3 months using a skadate product as a base and customizing from there. I lauched yesterday on a grass roots word of mouth platform to beta test and have 9 members. I am truely the little fish…..Anyone now a great PHP guy or gal who has videochat experiance?
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rubber (Check me out!)
// Feb 19, 2008 at 4:31 pm
who cares how much time a person took to build a site. Its unique visitors traffic which really matters.
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