Help!!! Dating Website Investment

Chabine · 03-12-2010, 08:05 AM

Hi there,

I have spent endless hours and days browsing the net, looking for information on creating my own dating site. I have read hundreds of pros and cons and have only become completely lost as to what to do, and how much is needed to invest.
I have a low budget and some of the forums and sites stated that I will need at least 10 to 20 thousand to have my site built. Is that true?
Can anyone give me information on how much I will be spending and what exactly I can do to have my own personal dating site up and running in no time??

kiore · 03-12-2010, 01:01 PM

If you want a custom site built completely from scratch it takes a lot of time and you can expect to see a lot of money going to the developers.

The good news is you don't have to go that path. There are pre-written dating applications available. It's not really my thing so I haven't looked at them in any depth, but I have investigated Dolphin from Boonex I was looking at the social media aspects of the software but it was obvious that it is designed as a dating site package & would be a relatively easy way to get into that. There's even a free version, so you could initially start with that and move up to the paid version once you are going.

Even with a package solution, you'll probably want to hire someone to do the set-up and perhaps do a custom style for you. This should cost a few hundred dollars maximum.

Then comes the hard bit ... getting started. Unless you've got some new angle, it's a saturated market and nobody is going to join a dating site that has no people of the appropriate gender on it so you need a way to attract your initial clients against established competition and you're up against a large number of other sites that are heavy users of adsense &c so even getting people to visit is going to be tough.
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Good Luck

RTM · 03-12-2010, 04:35 PM

Originally Posted by kiore

Even with a package solution, you'll probably want to hire someone to do the set-up and perhaps do a custom style for you. This should cost a few hundred dollars maximum.

Then comes the hard bit ... getting started. Unless you've got some new angle, it's a saturated market and nobody is going to join a dating site that has no people of the appropriate gender on it so you need a way to attract your initial clients against established competition and you're up against a large number of other sites that are heavy users of adsense &c so even getting people to visit is going to be tough.

Agreed 100%... dating is heavily saturated niche.
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As for applications, have a look at osDate, a free open-source dating system that's been in development for several years now and has a decent user base as well.

Rob

Er.harpreet kaur · 03-13-2010, 09:10 AM

i think u'hve to design the site first,,and then after that u'hve to continue the programming part and there's also some inbuilt dating applications and u can implement directly.
if u'hv'nt started yet then u'hve to think about other sites and u can get the better ideas and can put the better creativity.

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Chabine First Time Poster! Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 1	Help!!! Dating Website Investment Hi there, I have spent endless hours and days browsing the net, looking for information on creating my own dating site. I have read hundreds of pros and cons and have only become completely lost as to what to do, and how much is needed to invest. I have a low budget and some of the forums and sites stated that I will need at least 10 to 20 thousand to have my site built. Is that true? Can anyone give me information on how much I will be spending and what exactly I can do to have my own personal dating site up and running in no time??

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kiore NamePros Regular Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 283 Follow @Bruce_Clement	If you want a custom site built completely from scratch it takes a lot of time and you can expect to see a lot of money going to the developers. The good news is you don't have to go that path. There are pre-written dating applications available. It's not really my thing so I haven't looked at them in any depth, but I have investigated Dolphin from Boonex I was looking at the social media aspects of the software but it was obvious that it is designed as a dating site package & would be a relatively easy way to get into that. There's even a free version, so you could initially start with that and move up to the paid version once you are going. Even with a package solution, you'll probably want to hire someone to do the set-up and perhaps do a custom style for you. This should cost a few hundred dollars maximum. Then comes the hard bit ... getting started. Unless you've got some new angle, it's a saturated market and nobody is going to join a dating site that has no people of the appropriate gender on it so you need a way to attract your initial clients against established competition and you're up against a large number of other sites that are heavy users of adsense &c so even getting people to visit is going to be tough. ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/website-development/644501-help-dating-website-investment.html Good Luck __________________ Ramblings: Twitter \| Blog: Domaining .NZ \| Sales: Hot Domains \| Portfolio: Rare Domains

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Er.harpreet kaur New Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: chandigarh Posts: 2	i think u'hve to design the site first,,and then after that u'hve to continue the programming part and there's also some inbuilt dating applications and u can implement directly. if u'hv'nt started yet then u'hve to think about other sites and u can get the better ideas and can put the better creativity.

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