THE NEXT WEB – June 23 – Clique connects friends of friends—It’s how you meet people at a party, brought online. Clique users can’t connect with anyone who is more than two degrees away from a friend, so every date is vetted by someone he or she knows.
Q: What is Clique and why is it different from other dating sites?
Christy Purington, Founder: Clique is a dating site that connects friends of friends. We include those in relationships–dubbed “wingmen”–to help set up friends.
Q: What is the end goal of Clique? To set up all your friends?
A: First, for daters to discover new people in their social graph as potential dates. Second, its for users–single or taken–to set up their friends.
Q: How will you monetize Clique?
A: We want to avoid the subscription model if possible. One option is charging for the second tier of connections. These are the people who are close enough to your network to be meaningful, but far enough away that you may not have interacted with them yet.
by Courtney Boyd Myers
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great site
great site
I heard of this before… it was called Thread and what happened? Oh yeah, it CRASHED AND BURNED.
Yet another great use of VC money.
I heard of this before… it was called Thread and what happened? Oh yeah, it CRASHED AND BURNED.
Yet another great use of VC money.
The most natural way to meet people is through friends of friends. This is how/why Friendster was started. Dating was the underlying reason for its creation. However, the key distinguishing factor between dating sites is privacy. An additional advantage is that everyone is single AND motivated on a dating site. Clique has an interesting spin. But can they build to a critical mass of users? I see traffic of just a few hundred visitors on Compete. http://siteanalytics.compete.com/clique.com/
The most natural way to meet people is through friends of friends. This is how/why Friendster was started. Dating was the underlying reason for its creation. However, the key distinguishing factor between dating sites is privacy. An additional advantage is that everyone is single AND motivated on a dating site. Clique has an interesting spin. But can they build to a critical mass of users? I see traffic of just a few hundred visitors on Compete. http://siteanalytics.compete.com/clique.com/