Archive for May, 2009

Hired my first programmer.

May 11, 2009

Exciting times here,   tomorrow my first programmer starts.    Its going to be nice having someone else to write code for plentyoffish!    In the last few months  POF has become the undisputed leader in the US market,  far ahead of companies like Eharmony and Match that only have 3-5% marketshare.

Now comes the hard part,   which is growing the market in the US and coming up with more innovative ideas that help bring people together.   I think many of the assumptions that dating sites are built on are wrong and i’m going to be doing a lot of R&D to see if i’m right.

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Userplane going out of business.

May 4, 2009

http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2009/05/userplane-ist.html

I removed userplane from plentyoffish a few weeks ago.   Userplane cost me more per month than my hosting does….   I wonder what the future of IM is in dating,  my UK pageviews increased 30%  in 2 weeks and my visitors and signups also dramatically climbed after removing userplane.