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... and it will let you meet them.

Hi everyone! I'd much appreciate your feedback, ideas, questions etc. regarding HumanamuH [1].

HumanamuH is all about efficiently meeting people who you find worthwhile to meet. It works like this:

1) You search for people

2) You talk to them

3) You rate them

4) HumanamuH predicts who else is worth meeting

Your predictions are based on people who like and dislike the same people as you do. It's important to note that people don't get a global rating, so there won't be good and bad people. There will only be people who are more or less likely to find meeting each other worthwhile.

There are still many issues I have to work on. The biggest challenge I am currently facing is to get users in order to find out how people feel about HumanamuH. If you have any advice on how to "go viral", I'd be happy to listen.

[1] Why this name? Its slogan is "Where humans meet." therefore "Human" meets "Human" => "HumanamuH".

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I think it would be much more inviting if you could at least search for people without having made an account. As it stands I have no idea what kind of people I could talk to, so I have no idea if it would be worth giving up my email address.

Edit: Interesting idea, though. With social networks like Facebook you really need to have met in order to befriend — it doesn't encourage random meetings. When I was younger I would find likeminded people by chance on odd websites; I think that's become harder as I've grown older.

Yes, I understand your point. I didn't want to share the user profiles with non-users. I also haven't looked into how easy it would be to harvest profile pictures and profile data. Any thoughts on this?

"I didn't want to share the user profiles with non-users."

And yet, if someone wants to harvest profiles, they'll just sign up with a fake/throwaway email address, while legitimate users have to give up real information to do the same.

True. I'm not sure how to effectively prevent harvesting. Limiting the rate at which profiles can be fetched only goes so far.

Perhaps you could only share a limited amount of information to non-users, like the topics they'd like to talk about, and an "about you" or something. Just enough to catch one's interest.

Interesting idea. If one doesn't want to leak any profile information, one could only show the number of results to non-users but not the actual profiles.

Of course, it's very hard to prevent any malicious use of the profile data.

Some suggestions for what kinds of things to write in the "Intentions" area would be helpful. It's pretty vague right now.

Edit to add: I really love this idea, and am looking forward to seeing if it takes off!

One more suggestion: this is the kind of service that actually would really benefit from Facebook integration. You could take likes, photos, etc. to very quickly populate a profile instead of filling it out by hand.

Glad you like the idea!

I'll think about suggestions for the "intentions" field. However, I don't want to suggest something that will end up in most profiles. Priming is powerful.

I expected someone would bring up Facebook integration. :-)

As someone who doesn't use Facebook and who has some issues with it, I haven't even considered integrating it and I'm not sure how much the profile data would match. I don't intend HumanamuH to become an advertising column, so much for sure.

Can you suggest anything besides photos that would fit the current HumanamuH profile?

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