“We’re
trying to codify serendipity” — those surprising moments of, “Oh my God, I
can’t believe anyone else likes that as much as I do!”
Tastemates CEO Jon
Vlassopulos describing how his revolutionary dating App works
One
man's meat is another man’s poison. So what happens when you and someone else
share the same poison?
Then
you start a mobile Social Network called Tastemates for people with similar
tastes in food, movies and TV shows as reported in the article “Tastemates
helps you find people who like what you like”, published 05 May 2016 by
Anthony Ha, Techcrunch.
The
Tastemates App, available on both the Apple
iTunes Store and the Google
Play Store, is what would happen if's Tinder API had sex with Facebooks
Likes Database
Instead
of swiping to like/dislike based on facial profiles, your quizzed by a built in
bot about what you like and dislike a lot like fashion chatbot purchase by Kik
Messenger called Blynk as reported in my
blog article
entitled “Kik
buys Blynk - Why chatbots are the future of music and shopping”.
So
how does Tastemates work?
Tastemates dating is
based on likes - Facebook Likes bot in an App as birds of a feather flock
together
This
App sounds like an idea I posted on Facebook as a response to a NowThis video which I found
ironically on Facebook on Monday April 2nd 2016 at 7:42 a.m.
That
video was made by German food brand Knorr, who paired people based on their
tastes in food. The idea was that people had a deeper connection if they had
the taste in food, as that implies similar thinking but on a more sub-conscious
level. It seemed to have worked, as many of the participants have even gone on
a second date.
And
as you can see, I suggested that some developers need to come together and make
this into an App.
Tastemates
does something similar, but with more data from everything you like, not just
food.
The
App learns from your swiping, it'll recommended other things that it thinks you
may like while serving you up with a side-dish of other people who have similar
tastes. In other worse, you don’t choose the person you date or you are not
matches based on what you're looking for in a partner.
Rather,
the App matches you to other based purely on liking similar things, in keeping
with the adage “birds of a feather flock together”. Even better, you can filter
through the people that the App recommends have similar tastes in terms of
food, movie, TV show, music.
This
filtering is based on age and gender and is very granular. Even the updates for
new persons can be gauged manually using slider that determines the percentage
similarity you have with someone.
In short, all very hands-on!
Future of Apps is built
in Bots – App Match made in Heaven based on Bot-collected metadata
But
trust me, if you and someone connect on the level of liking the same things,
their age should matter much.
The
secret of a good dating App is about making that connection as more people of
all ages are searching for love as pointed out in my MICO Wars blog article
entitled “How
Jamaican can use Dating Apps to find a Lover”.
This may be the future of Apps; bots built in that match you to a product by parsing metadata collected from conversing with you or with you doing an interactive survey.
Something
tell me Facebook may already be planning a retaliatory strike against this
start-up using their Facebook Likes Database but using bots instead as noted in
Geezam blog article entitled “How
FB Messenger Ads means Chess playing Chatbots with Fast Food Coupons”.
Oh,
and I'm STILL looking for a developer for my unique App idea, specific to
Jamaica......
Here’s
the link:
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