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One of my guilty pleasures is posting to halfbakery.
I realize that the site isn't the final judge of What Is And Is Not A Good Idea, but I like
getting immediate feedback from a large group of people with relatively diverse interests.
I say relatively diverse because there are a lot of cat owners there for some reason.
Any community is going to have its own values and biases; I just have a hard time figuring
them out.
So here's my latest post, Dumpster:
There are plenty of online dating services to help you out when you're ready to start a new relationship. Why aren't there any services to help you end one that's ready to die?
Dumpster would work somewhat like eVite. You make one announcement of the break-up that gets sent out to all your friends, so you don't have to experience to agony of explaining the breakup for 50th time.
You pick a theme for the breakup, invite people to register alliances with either you or your ex, specify a white list and a black list of individuals who you approve or disapprove for hooking up with your ex on the rebound, and hit 'send'.
The Rebound white list and black list would not be visible to anyone but you. If a recipient is on one of the lists, they are notified only of that fact. Recipients on the white list are allowed to indicate their preference for dibs on your ex.
You can then keep track of who's been notified, who (if anyone) wants your ex, and make social plans accordingly.
I mean, I'm thinking this could actually be a viable business because it's the reverse logistics of online dating.
Online dating is pretty good business, and the more people date the more they have to break up, and thus a problem
and an opportunity are created. Any ways I guess the halfbakery volk don't see it that way.
Dumpster is currently at +4, -5.
I started out with the name Dumpster and then tried to think up what it would actually be. The other idea I considered
was a spoof on file-sharing services: Peer-to-Peer file disposal. It's like a recycle bin that spits all of its contents
out to your buddies who also use Dumpster. I mean, you're done with that etc/passwords.old file so why not let
someone else have it, right? Or: don't worry about all those files you throw away piling up and cluttering your recycle bin;
let Dumpster scatter your digital debris into the ether(net).
Eh, I gots nothin'.
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