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zinpin
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Has anyone finalised any Mod that can handle online dating?<
   
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Shaggy
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Speaking from experience, I have found it better to build this up from scractch with the features I required which in turn has made it easier to tweak and expand the site to meet members' needs.
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zinpin ; there's no mod out there that takes care of buying flowers, building up your charmes and taking care of stalkers.... bigsmile You will have to woo the gals yourself by means of poetry, heart shaped boxes of chocolate delivered to the door, and tons of red roses.

Sorry..couldn't keep myself from posting this wink hehe<
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Originally posted by marcelgoertz
zinpin ; there's no mod out there that takes care of buying flowers, building up your charmes and taking care of stalkers.... bigsmile You will have to woo the gals yourself by means of poetry, heart shaped boxes of chocolate delivered to the door, and tons of red roses.

Sorry..couldn't keep myself from posting this wink hehe

Marcel you seem to know SO much about this...bigsmile he he I thought my best chance of finding a partner would be to set up my own dating agency... How can I go wrong then :)

Seriously though, I've started with the base code and I'm going to dedicate a few months on this. I think there's a chance that others might find it usefull aswell.
PS Shaggy have you done this b4?<
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MarcelG
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PS Shaggy have you done this b4?
zinpin ; check out woo.ie and see for yourself. I guess you can answer your question fairly easy after a second or 2. wink<
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zinpin
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thanks Marcel :) I should have looked at his sig ... :) I wonder if he's in the mood for sharing<
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Unfortunately not as the site doesn't belong to me but I'm certainly willing to help and provide code extracts & samples where I can.
Bear in mind, though, that the market is staurated with sites like ours and if you want to succeed, you're going to have to offer your clients something a lot different to what they can get anywhere else on the interweb so spend some time thinking about what you can offer, what you can do differently, is there a niche clientelle not currently being catered for that you can target, etc.
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Very true Shaggy, saturated to say the least. As for Niche unexplored markets ... he he that's right up there with winning the lottery. If you do have some code that you could share though I would love to see it.<
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Shaggy
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Being as Woo.ie was built up from scratch completely, including an extensve rewrite of the forums, any code I simply throw out isn't really going to be of much use, better to make a start on it yourself and ask for help where needed so it's relevant to your needs.
As for a niche clientelle, we found a pretty large one here in Ireland with the lesbian and gay community who aren't really catered for on any of our competitors sites. We still have a bit of work to do to meet their requirements fully, but we're getting there. There are always niches there, no matter how small, that you can use to get yourself off the ground. Once you're up and running, you'll then find it easier to expand outwards, catering for a larger audience.
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did you start with snitz as your base? and just expanded the db to fit the rest of the fields required? or did you start with one of the existing portal solutions and take it from there?<
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Ay, pretty much started with a Snitz base and a design along with a detailed plan of what was to go on top of it and where we wanted to end up. Database and existing tables (primarily members tables) were expanded as needs be with additional tables and fields. Some elements of MeTV (such as the custom, additional member level) were pulled in to speed things up.
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