Flirting the Web: Web 2.0 for Women

    I'm In Like With You mobile web service may well become a new sensation of the Internet. This is a dating service, but not ordinary. To get acquainted with a girl, a man must go through a number of online and offline puzzles, which she puts for him.

    The highlight is this: if most online services strive to simplify and automate dating (male logic), then here, on the contrary, it is surrounded by additional conditions and difficulties, enjoying the process itself. This is exactly what women do who love to flirt.

    The innovative service has been running in for six months in the walls of the famous Y Combinator incubator, and only now, after being placed on the Amazon EC2 and S3 platform, is it available for public testing.



    I'm In Like With You- A game built around flirting. Each participant has a certain number of points, which you can earn if you publish original content on the site, attract friends and just visit the site every day. These points - the local flirt currency, they will then be needed to participate in auctions for the right to meet a girl.

    The social network of participants is divided by barriers. To overcome the barrier and establish direct contact with the girl, you need to solve the problem that she proposed. For a girl who, throughout the game, remains completely anonymous, overcoming the barrier by the applicant is a guarantee that the person really wants to make contact with her, that he really likes her. The more obstacles he overcomes, the more evidence of this.

    However, only the most persistent gets the right to start the game. If several candidates want to meet one girl, then she organizes an auction in the eBay style for the right to pass the test. During the auction, the beauty can reward the participants who are most attractive to her. She immediately receives a message on the mobile phone about the course of the bidding and the appearance of new participants.

    Each flirtation game lasts from several hours to several days. The winner receives the main prize, and the losers lose some of the points with which they entered the game (the latter function has not yet been implemented, but in the future it will probably be with the ability to restore the point balance from a credit card).

    All communications are carried out by IM and mobile phone. The girl receives a temporary phone number without giving out a real one.

    via gigaOM

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