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Isn't it a thoughtful act to sign up for this service? :)

We're not ignoring non-romantic thoughtfulness in the sense that we don't know about them and the potential in those users, but rather ignore them in order to get something out the door and gauge interest.

We too worry about showing up like spam. Our current algorithm is to send a mail no sooner than 7 days but no later than 21 days after the last notification, which hopefully isn't too often. We're looking at adding user accounts to let people customize this timeframe and the suggestions.

Thanks for the feedback!

The ads are dead. We'll probably look for sponsorship if running the sites ends up costing anything. It is on google app engine, so everything is free right now.

DEAD. I hated them as well.

Okay, killed the ads. I hated them as well.

Every user gets a random idea from a a database of ideas; there's maybe 40 ideas in the DB for each combination of genders. We have some logic that prevents you from getting the same suggestion twice in a row, and in a branch we've yet to merge we've added a link to the emails that lets the user get a new suggestion.

We've got Big Plans(tm) to add user accounts that will let users than customize their own suggestion list.

The counter is in the plan but is currently an embarrassingly low number (79 and counting!).

Re: random intervals, we'll try to find a better way to express what happens, and as someone else suggested will show an example of what the email will look like.

I think we'll also add a random suggestion to the front page.

That's a great idea, and easy to show on an example page. Added it to the TODO - thanks!

Cool, we'll add a privacy statement.

I bet we can... that's a great idea, thanks. It'll help us get rid of the ugly.

I'm so on the fence with the ads. I agree they clutter up the design. We've made the big $0.04 on the ads so far... I'd much rather send well formed and target recommendations with the suggestions.

tl;dr - we'll probably kill them, but thought it would be cool to buy a beer with the proceeds.

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