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I prognosticate that inlu.st will have an easy time attracting at least one of the two sexes as users.

Now, which one will that be? Hmmm..

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?

It will aways be harder to attract/keep women on a dating site than it will be to attract/keep men. That is why almost ALL advertising for dating sites on TV is targeted at women, IMO.

Further, if you start with a domain like inlu.st, you are eliminating the % of women that actually care about long term relationships over one night stands. That is a very large %.

Just my opinion. I have no data for you.

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.

Why not specialized frontends on a common backend? Common accounts for "inlu.st" and "solone.ly" or something, but with ability for activating/deactivating visibility on some domains.

I think that both the and community requirements can be very different for casual contact and ltrs, but there will be some natural mobility between those.

Personally I'd guess at the name scaring women away.

However I wouldn't necessarily trust my intuition and would prefer testing it.

It sounds a lot like Craigslist's "casual encounters". Which was successful enough, but still.

This may be a very profitable if targeted on gay audience. Nice layout, some extra features and boom, lots of users...

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