For those of you without millions of dollars and a stellar development team to build your FaceBook application, may I suggest Dolphin as a viable dating site platform option. Version 6 Beta is out now.
I’ve always said I would never run a dating site, but I never said I wouldn’t build one. So here I am in the middle of building one for a client. After some pretty careful consideration and due diligence, we’re using Dolphin. Even though there are some less-than-intuitive ways that Dolphin does things, so far so good. It’s a far cry from the complaining I’ve read on this blog in the comments, which at this point seems kind of surprising. Then again, lots of the complaints came from people that should have used an ASP, or hosted dating site service like World Dating Partners or any of the other contenders in the Tools & Services Directory.
I will have a much more thorough review of Dolphin at a later date. For now, sleeves are rolled up, functional specification in hand, we are building what I hope is going to be a great site full of features that have never been attempted before on a dating site, or social networking for that matter.
