[moxgirl34]

Hey everyone, my name is Scott and am a partner in MoxieGirl34 a small start up in the industry. Currently our niche is focused on Native American woman, we have about a dozen very beautiful Navajo, Apache, and other tribals in our line up.

My question today is, part of our plan is to have a Native American dating site to help drive traffic to the adult side of our idea. I have spent hours looking at various websites selling dating software, even bought a few and HATED IT!!!

Can someone recommend a great software package?

Scott

[dibby]

I've worked with a few, and they have all been hideious. Hopefully someone else has had better luck.

[tigger]

I'm sure I remember reading somewhere that Joomla could be customised to run a sex contacts site ??

[student4ever]

I'm sure I remember reading somewhere that Joomla could be customised to run a sex contacts site ??

I recall seeing some Joomla Extensions that can turn it into a social networking style package. Don't know anybody who has tried it though...

[riscphree]

I've tried out osDate before, its ... ok. I didn't spend a lot of time with it, but it seemed easy enough to customize.

[beckie]

try webdate from webscribble: www.webscribble.com or phpfox: www.phpfox.com

[switch]

no no no to webscribble. they are terrible with no support.

[beckie]

no no no to webscribble. they are terrible with no support.

Really? I have had a few problems with tech support, but for the most part - they were good.

[student4ever]

different experiences and different opinions - happens all the time.

Trust the recommendations of people you know and trust
then after that, do all the extra research to be sure since in the end, you're spending your money

[Film Interact]

Go custom.

Hire a programmer is you have to.

I think it's a waste of money to buy an already made Dating site out of a box. Seriously...have ANY of those ever became successful?????? And if one did... for $29.99 you could have a competitor popup with a site that is legally identical consisting of the same exact features. Big no no....

[beckie]

Go custom.

Hire a programmer is you have to.

I think it's a waste of money to buy an already made Dating site out of a box. Seriously...have ANY of those ever became successful?????? And if one did... for $29.99 you could have a competitor popup with a site that is legally identical consisting of the same exact features. Big no no....

Custom would be ideal, but most people don't have that kind of money to start out. A 3rd party script is inexpensive. If the site is successful, then they can always 'upgrade' to a custom made site.

I've had a few clients become successful with 3rd party scripts. Not successful like match type sites... but successful enough to quit their part time job.

[tigger]

if you have the traffic & revenue custom has to be the better way, but for new start ups its got to be 3rd party scripts, although I can image the problems if you start 3rd party then want to add more features so need to move over to a custom script a lot of your members will be pissed when they see changes especially a complete new member section

I've always wondered how these start ups cope with a zero member level, after all if your starting from fresh with either a custom or 3rd party script the database will have no members and this is the reason I moved down the white label route - I would have loved to start up my own contacts site rather than using someone else's database but starting with zero members has got to be hard work - after all would you join a contacts site with no members?

So what do start ups do? you can offer free memberships but would people still join? I don't think so

[jellobiafra]

It is really hard to get people to join your new datingsite in my experience almost impossible i think this market is really over saturated
free memberships, people sign up and walk away

But if you want to start a datingsite anyway buy a 3rd party script opensource and highly hackable and add features yourself (if you have the skills)

[tigger]

It is really hard to get people to join your new datingsite in my experience almost impossible i think this market is really over saturated
free memberships, people sign up and walk away

my main market is contacts and whilst I agree its not an easy market but that applies to everything - but starting with an empty database would be very hard work

[jellobiafra]

my main market is contacts and whilst I agree its not an easy market but that applies to everything - but starting with an empty database would be very hard work

But there is a difference in building you own datingsite and try to get people to sign up
or building portals and send traffic/new members to the existing big boys with full data bases

[tigger]

agree

[Bill Benson]

I think I'd start a small town what to do site with all the bars, movies etc listed as well as a find a date section for free. Might get some sign ups and grow it from there?

[tigger]

you'd think so bill - I've made sites hitting local counties / towns that rank every well for swingers / contacts = town and whilst they do get some sign ups the larger nationwide sites get a much better sign up rate, maybe this is due to hitting more towns but when looking at traffic often the same punter will click on the small county site, then the nationwide one as on.

The only advantage is the county / town sites don't take much effort to gain rankings and in quite a few town searches I take the top few places with nationwide sites listed within that

[Bill Benson]

Ya, it just struck me as more of a walk before you can run approach.

[tigger]

it will work - and thinking long term the county site can be used as a link into your nationwide site, looking very long term having 50 odd small states sites can be a very strong linking tool into a nationwide site - thats what I do, you just have to make sure whois & hosting is different

[jellobiafra]

you'd think so bill - I've made sites hitting local counties / towns that rank every well for swingers / contacts = town and whilst they do get some sign ups the larger nationwide sites get a much better sign up rate, maybe this is due to hitting more towns but when looking at traffic often the same punter will click on the small county site, then the nationwide one as on.

In my personal experience Swingers or Daters like to sign up for sites which have far more people and especially much more pictures in their databases, sure the first search string is their own town but in the end they like to chat mail with almost everyone since it almost never comes to a real encounter.
They like to keep it virtual

[tigger]

agree again (really must stop doing this ) fortunately the white label site I work with I can deep link directly into county / town searches

[lirina]

trust the people you believe to be right:viscous:

[teensexweb]

you can find nulled dating scripts on warez sites and test it,if you like any of that scripts you can buy it.