The world's best online Jacob-dating service

jakedate.com

93 points·andymboyle··15 comments

Not sure he'll find many dates but I'm guessing there is a few million in angel investments already lined up.

I suspect you're right.

But I'm not going to grumble about it because I don't see this as a startup. In a social kickstartered world this stuff is the new breed of entertainment.

And the way you evaluate successful entertainment is buzz, not creating "business value" or whatever metric you deem more real.

This is actually a Turing test.

"It’s about getting seven billion people in touch with Jacob"

Male, female, straight, gay, married, single, infant, octogenarian, ...

It's so full of witty tech industry insider humor; he definitely won't be single for long.

so Jacob's supposedly "Jacob Kleinfeldt, 29, of Waukegan, IL." (see the meta tags)... http://mic.com/articles/106004/one-parody-website-perfectly-...

Finally.

Is this really what I think it is?

I'll have to try that.

"The world's best Mike dating service."

"People are going to be poaching this model left and right, but there’s only one Jacob." – Alissa Walker from Gizmodo (according to the site)

How am I supposed to steal this model?

There's no stealing in your case; it was built for you.

I would find this all hilariously self-involved if I weren't pretty sure it is in fact a joke.

I see what you did there: it's either hilarious, or a joke!

We would prefer to laugh at, not with.

Personal brand building. It's totally a thing.

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