Got ten minutes?
At the start-up that I’m working for, we’re building the world’s best dating site. And right now, and our tech guys need your help – even if you’re not single! They’ve built a pretty kick-ass matching engine – and now we need people to help us test it! We need profiles from real – or imaginary – people so we can run tests and find what works and what needs improvement.
Just go to this special site and fill out our profile form!
You can give it real or fake information — doesn’t matter as long as we flood our system with data to see how it handles itself. It’s pretty unsophisticated, there are no pretty pictures, no dazzling interface. All that good stuff will come later. Right now, it’s all about words and check boxes.
There is a box at the end so you can tell us anything you liked or hated about the questions — feel free to fill it up!
Anyway, would you please? I swear, if it takes more than ten minutes of your time, I will buy you a car. Or at least a cup of coffee or something good.
***UPDATE***
I know some of you are having technical problems, and I’ve passed it along to the Tech dudes. Thanks so much for all the feedback. You guys are great!
I didnt time it, but it really didnt even take 10 min. Im sure if I read the questions and answered honestly it would have taken a little longer. Way to go getting a dating site set up! Props to fish!
I’m trying, but it’s hanging when I hit “Continue” on the first page. I’ll give you guys some time to figure that out…
(From This Fish: Thanks! I’ve told the Tech dudes. They’re explorinig the whys right now! Which browser are you using?)
I did it, was a good one. Not that I have any experience with those.
Needs an “other” category for ethnicity. Or at least switch from radio buttons to checkboxes. Very fast and easy, though.
Done – great job…really liked a few of the interesting questions you never see on regular dating sites. Can’t wait to see it live!
Hope your Friday is better than your Thursday Fish…tomorrow is a new day!
Consider it done! Happy to help…
filled it out…can’t wait to see what the final product looks like…and curious about how my bust size will end up being advertised??
Done and done. Good luck on the project!
It would be helpful to select multiple items for some of the questions…good sex could be a buncha things.
Done! It didn’t take long at all. I liked the questioning.
The question about piercing and tattoos should allow for multiple boxes to be checked. For instance: I have one piercing other than ears and one small tattoo.
Can’t wait to see where this goes!
I’m using Camino Version 2005110708 (1.0b1) on OSX. It eventually got to the next page, but definitely way slow.
Ha!! yes I agree with the ladies above, need more than one choice for good sex & tat/piercings.
I want to know who is going to fill out height 5’2″ 300, 38/52/38 … I’m sure everyone wants to know … but really, is there a “how long is it” question on the men’s page.
What about the spot that askes if you looking for chicks or dudes? It asked what the respondant is.
I liked the reward idea. Seems a nice way for insight into a person, to ask them how they will know WHEN they’ve reached their goal.
Good job.
Dude! You totally owe me car/coffee. It took me way longer than 10 minutes…The fact that I’ve got the flu and didn’t manage to tie my own shoes this morning had nothing to do with it of course.
ha – that was a hoot. let me know when you figure out which is mine.
I agree with MeganNJ… I wasn’t crazy about some of the questions. But I know it’s just a test.
Fish, u need to tell your IT guys to get some load balancing tools to test if your server can handle the load. Even if you ask all your friends and other people to go in and fill the info to test it…you still will not be able to actually test it…not much load. the tools that are available in market can insert 1000′s of rows and test the load balancing, stability and all other server related stuff. just my 2 cents
cool site, it didn’t take me very long.
I agree about the question about sex, sex can be so many things.
I’ve used other dating services but I haven’t found Mr Right yet! I answered everything honestly, can I go back and make up a profile now?
I agree with Susanne and MeganNJ about the sex and body decoration questions (making multiple selections would be nice.) Also on the sex questions, maybe offer an “abstaining” option or something? I thought the reward section was a little weird. If it’s meant to be a goal-setting section, I might make the goal box a little bigger. Are people really going to give rewards for being paired off? Good luck with everything!
Posted my comments in the suggestion area, but thanks. This was fun.
I can’t past the first page either. Every time I click continue it goes back to the same page…I am using IE 6.
That was fun/bizarre. I created some info by combining things about other people, and then realized, what an odd duck that profile must look like. But yes, the whole thing didn’t take long. And I agree w/the other suggestions/feedback. Hope I was able to help.
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Interesting (and very Jewish) concepts. Well, except the body adornments. The paying for a match- smacks of shadchanim. Not a bad thing at all, interesting take on it.
Oh, and I’ve wanted to say for a while that I really enjoy reading your blog!
Agree with the comment on load balancing… I couldn’t get throught the “special site” link. Looking forward to when I can though!
Hmmmm…had the same problem as your second commenter. The continue button would only reload the same page.
For your tech guys: Using Win XP, IE6… tried restarting and clearing cache, still no go. Say hey to Brian and Max…
I did it jokingly, but some of the questions are a bit strange–like astrology? Health issues? I don’t think I’d ever put health issues in a profile. But overall, some good questions asked. Good luck with it!
Same problem here, can’t get past the 1st page. I’m using WinXP SP2, IE 6.
I did it. For you!
I did it too…not single, but love questionnaires. I posted my comments to them directly. I, too, missed mutiple-choice possibilities for several questions. And I really hated the measurements-question. If I was looking for a no-strngs-attached relationship, that might be a relevant question but not for a LTR-page.
Very fun!
It was nice to be somebody else…..
I also really hated the measurements-question. I realize that there are those who would think that measurements are the be-all/end-all of choosing a date/life-partner/spouse, but really, not a good thing.
Oh My Sweet Baby Jesus Lord…you put my LTR description out there from my e-mail….If I’d know where that was headed I’d have written it more carefully!
(This Fish: If you want to change it, just email me!)
It didn’t take long at all, but I agree that some of the questions were a bit uncomfortable. Health issues? Measurments? And does sex really only mean one thing to people? Also, the reward seemed like a joke. I did it as a joke and it was fun, but if I was being serious, I don’t think I’d like it.
However, I just love your blog.
just curious – if the site is free and there are no ads….how does your company make money?
Done with no problems. Good luck!
I just filled this out – as a media gal, it was entertaining to participate in a beta test on a site that is actually FUN! The site I maintain is incredibly BORING (and stressful to work on).
I’m curious about some of the question choices though…I hope they are just for testing purposes because they are kind of ridiculous! I mean, bust size? Pet choices?
ooh – i’ve always been curious what the new job was. Sounds like a blast, and good for you!
It’s funny — I’ve never used a dating site, but I met my boyfriend through a random Craigslist ad. All I had to go on was the creativity of the post itself, but it seemed to work out OK. I guess it’s kind of a crapshoot no matter what, but I think I like not having anything to go on besides that one or two paragraphs. Of course, I did meet some pretty wierd people that way too, so I guess no matter what approach you take you just have to be persistent/resilient.
Content thoughts:
*Why does it ask for my phone number? A lot of users will find this intrusive.
*Body decoration – you need radio boxes or differentiate between piercing and tattoos
Worked perfectly when browsed with Safari on Os X.4 – that’s good news.
I think it is a fun questionnaire but asking about income? Intrusive I think. And recreative drugs???? Who’s going to answer that with honesty??
I didn’t use my own information but…I feel bad about lying
Damn those Catholic parents!
Fish, please tell us those aren’t the “real” questions and that you won’t have something like that up there. Some of those questions are just icky.
I put my suggestions on the site, but I agree with some of the posters about some of the questions being not super realistic (reward, measurements, being able to check more than one option, etc). That was fun!
I agree with the others about wanting to be able to check multiple boxes on some of them, such as good sex…maybe a 1st, 2nd, 3rd thing if that would help the matching. Also multiple choice on hair style I’m concerned about how bust size would be advertized…couldn’t a small, medium, large work? Why would I want to share health issues? Also, it would help to have a back button with your pre-saved answers, so you can change answers without having to retype the whole page again. And the what if page was just vauge and I didn’t see the point in it. I hope this helps.
Am headed over…I assume you still need help?
Did this for you Fish!Best wishes in your work!
I went back and tried it again (I was one of the IE people who were having problems), and I was able to enter my information. However, when I was on the last page I tried to go back and change an answer by clicking on the tabs at the top, all my previous answers were erased.
Had a fun time, pretending I was single and the tall lanky woman with a different career! Thanks for the entertainment, and very happy to help you.
seems to be only for americans!
also, i pretended to be george bush. he is married. so there was no check box for him!
Just completed the survey? Can’t wait until I meet Mr. Right all thanks to you. And yes you’re invited to the wedding! Until then.