Boston Innovation has a nice writeup about a new dating site in Boston targeting college kids. Reading Matchmaking at MIT, BU and Harvard Just Got Easier with nChooseTwo, its becoming clear that the premise of people matching their friends continues to gain traction as a viable alternative to traditional dating sites.
nChooseTwo, a new site that has surfaced on MIT’s social scene and recently expanded to the BU and Harvard campuses. nChooseTwo, created by friends Jason Gao and Tim Hsieh, was developed as a means for mutual friends to match others romantically.
On nChooseTwo, a student can anonymously set up two of his or her friends. The potential matches will receive an email like “A friend just suggested a new match for you! To view this match, visit https://www.nchoosetwo.com.” Once on nChooseTwo, the potential match will see who his or her match then has the option to either accept or decline the match. Only when both matches accept is the match-maker finally revealed.
Additionally, users can list their “crushes.” If any of your “crushes” also happen to list you on his or her list, both of you will be informed of your mutual interest in each other via email.
I like how the site is all text. No beautiful people on the home page, no annoying “chrome” to distract from the purpose of the site. Simple, useful and just works.
