What progress have you made since your last update?

• We got 75 people to beta test our compatibility questions! We are focusing on WOMEN right now. The majority of the responses are from single women. You can see and/or share the typeform here: https://shreedasegan.typeform.com/to/dSmutmIr

• Continuing to build and design out the MVP!

• Finished v1 of our pitch deck; found an advisor

What are your next steps?

• Finish the pitch deck

• Get 50+ women in just one city (Austin) to sign up

  • promoted tweets/IG posts

  • guerilla marketing (flyers around town)

  • set up dating event/mixer

Is there anything others could help you with?

• get single women in Austin to do our questions

• donate more money so we can do the marketing in Austin

  • I quit my part time job to focus entirely on this project

• make warm intros to potential investors

Thanks for the feedback Mae! @mshaze

The current site is just a demo & purely for testing purposes. It's in no way the actual product or real accounts.

I'll also draft an official update to the Manifund project right now.

early previews of onboarding @shreeda

What progress have you made since your last update?

• built out the minimum viable design for user onboarding

• published more on our substack (meetmeoffline.substack.com)

• created internal brand guidelines

• internal design thinking workshop on profile design

What are your next steps?

• code and build the onboarding design

• minimum viable design for user profiles

• minimum viable branding work

• keep publishing on our substack

Is there anything others could help you with?

• subscribe to our substack (meetmeoffline.substack.com), share and like posts, become a paid subscriber

• recommend single women who would volunteer for user research interviews

• something else? let us know what you have in mind

Here's the user journey!

What progress have you made since your last update?

• onboarded our designer & paid her half the funds thus far as upfront deposit

• worked with her to fully document the user journey

• published a preview of our mission and positioning statement: https://open.substack.com/pub/meetmeoffline/p/a-preview-of-offlines-mission-and?r=1ug4n&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
  

What are your next steps?

• collaborate on customized design components

• design our pages

• work on minimum viable branding
  

Is there anything others could help you with?

• continue to contribute money or spread the word on this project on X, Facebook, group chats, substacks, etc.

• subscribe to our substack (meetmeoffline.substack.com) and maybe offer to be a beta tester when we recruit those

• volunteer your own engineering or design resources

• recommend single women who would volunteer for user research interviews

• let us know if you live in Austin, TX — we're thinking of launching live there first and then expanding to other cities

• something else? let us know what you have in mind
  

Thank you!!!! @Onethousandnos-

Awesome! Make sure you're subscribed to our substack. @Onethousandnos-

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Thanks so much Austin! Appreciate your wisdom as well. @Austin

@J_C Totally understand your skepticism. I still think it's worth the attempt and am glad you think so, too.

@jebstone this is something we are strongly considering, starting with Austin since Josh and I both live here and know people :)

when we raise money for marketing budget, we'll likely do local events and try to scale this strategy by implementing it one city at a time

We found a designer we want to work with and are very excited. Additional funding will help us compensate her well for her time.

We also plan to raise again in the future for marketing events! Thanks for everyone who has pitched in so far. Every little bit helps.

@dmlar Thanks for your pledge! Yes, we absolutely are going to raise donations for marketing in the near future. Re: getting normies, I think it's more about expanding beyond an initial beachhead of rationalist / postrationalist / etc, types. We want to do events in-person at select cities to get started.

I think we can also advertise a single high-quality man on our substack as a weekly classified post. I know from talking to Randa, author of hotsingles.nyc, that this strategy led to her recruiting thousands of female subscribers so I am confident this strategy will drive women to join the site. Our bet is that if the women are there, the men will come.

Thank you so much! I've found a designer but will keep this in mind if anything falls through! @vernon99

Thanks so much! @mikesaint-antoine

@Austin thanks so much for this comment. I basically agree on all points. Good news today is that I now have a specific designer lined up and she's willing to be a dedicated, in-house team member that I'll be working with directly. She's an ex-colleague of mine: https://www.instagram.com/serena_eom

The current design is not the intended design at all. I completely agree it's untenable!!!! Hence wanting to hire a designer to help re-do it :)

I'll get back to you about the distribution part. I totally agree that a beachhead is important. I think rationalist/EA was maybe a bit too specific. I want to broaden it to them + postrats + gray tribe, etc., etc. I want it to be value inclusive rather than exclusive. Cross-hybridization between adjacent subcultures, I bet, would lead to stimulating relationships. And not be so small that all the people on the dating site in your city are the ones you already know!