FriendsTonight
Consumer and social
social meetups app
SHOW HN2015
How HN took it
4 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 12 critical, out of 29 comments about the project. Thread score -0.19.
Idea: 4 for, 12 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Good concept of speeding up Grouper-style meetups
From 1 comment
Essentially Grouper, but you choose the groups and it happens immediately. I think the model where you take something and make it happen a lot faster is compelling and this seems…
jmtame on HN
Groups-meeting-groups framing reduces awkwardness
From 1 comment
Great article leoplct- I definitely read this article and it influenced the way I designed my app. FriendsTonight can't force you to meet new people, but we try to make it as…
friendstonight on HN
Objections
Seen as dating app in disguise
From 2 comments
Everything is dating.
loceng on HNSpot on. A very significant intrinsic motivator to go out and socialise for most single people (a large percentage of young professionals and people who just graduated college)…
davnicwil on HN
People have little motivation to meet strangers for friendship
From 1 comment
I once tried starting something like this. What I found is that people have very little motivation to meet strangers for the purpose of friendship. Another company built a very…
nirmel on HN
Hard to get groups to agree to meet another group
From 1 comment
Me too, I just can't see myself ever bothering with an app to facilitate it. The other problem is that it's hard enough getting a group to agree on what restaurant to go to,…
Untit1ed on HN
Too similar to Tinder and Grouper
From 1 comment
I am pumped for you launching an app and completing something probably feels great. I think it is a bit derivative of grouper and tinder, and social networks have the chicken and…
vonklaus on HN
Requests
Android version
From 2 comments
So I need friends to find friends, and an iPhone. Damn. But It looks cool, if I had friends and an iPhone I'd probably use it.
jetpm on HNHey jetpm- I totally agree. I wish we had an android version, but it's too hard for me to manage two codebases at once. You can leave your email at…
friendstonight on HN
Ideas for targeting this market
From 1 comment
Great point dhimes! Not everyone that uses the app necessarily has to be "on the prowl". I definitely was thinking about people in their early 30's and how hard to meet new…
friendstonight on HN
Questions
How the app solves the empty restaurant problem
From 1 comment
Nice app! congrat! I'm interested in how you guys plan to solve the empty restaurant problem.
wangii on HN
Alternatives named
Grouper
From 2 comments
I am pumped for you launching an app and completing something probably feels great. I think it is a bit derivative of grouper and tinder, and social networks have the chicken and…
vonklaus on HNEssentially Grouper, but you choose the groups and it happens immediately. I think the model where you take something and make it happen a lot faster is compelling and this seems…
jmtame on HN
Tinder
From 1 comment
I am pumped for you launching an app and completing something probably feels great. I think it is a bit derivative of grouper and tinder, and social networks have the chicken and…
vonklaus on HN
weCliq
From 1 comment
Looks like a competitor to weCliq (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wecliq/id965067652?mt=8)
apoverton on HN