Cougar,

In Plato's Symposium, humans first consisted of four arms and legs and a head with two faces on it. The Greek God Zeus was threatened by their power so he split them in two and doomed them to spend eternity looking for their other half; their twin soul or soul mate as you call it.

You're website is going to help us on this eternal quest. May the gods be with you ;-)

Tommy

thecougar, i haven't been in the dating website space, but are there any which are extensible in the way facebook has an API? or even i imagine you could extend facebook to offer interesting interactivity along these lines.

but it is hard to imagine another dating site springing up based on quiz-result-compatibility. there is too much infrastructure to build for the sake of a slightly improved feature

Think I saw something like this on Oprah.

Please can you cut it down with the facebook, you want the whole web in facebook.

Maybe give the use the best match out of 5.

You never know number 3 could be better looking.

]V[oogy

Yes, but no....

You're single, you've got plenty of time on your hands, and you're probably not up for taking the first person you meet out for a free meal - otherwise you'd already have plenty of dates.

If people believed that it worked, it might work, but historically, this kind of low volume blind matchmaking only appeals to a very small niche (whose users typically used to pay hundreds of dollars for the illusion that they are meeting "quality" people who also have the means to pay the fee....)

The whole reason you fill out all those personality profiles is to help find an accurate match. Sure, the following quiz would be easy, but it wouldn't help you find your soulmate:

1. What is your favorite color?
2. Are you straight or gay?
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Love your comment idevlabs...and completely agree. The idea of a short quiz versus finding a soul-mate seems mutually exclusive.

idevlabs - 100% disagree. It's quality vs quantity. There is a *ton* of research around determining personality types based on a series of short questions, and more research around the personality types that tend to be the best matches.

Check this out: http://www.humanmetr.../cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

It's a quick series of questions, but I'll bet you'd be surprised as to how accurate the results are.

Science, with a little pop-culture wrapper around it, is like magic.

I'm with you, Gord, 100% drinking the FB kool-aide. It's actually a great idea - instead of a dating site, why not throw up a FB app, answer some Jung-ian personality questions and then "poke" the user who is the best match? Simple + viral = I love it.

so this is another social network/dating site in a quickie sign-up but with some cute quotient match up?

Sounds interesting but i dont know that it would catch on since theres so many other sites like this

The humanmetrics test is still kinda lengthy for what I think you are proposing. Something more along the lines of http://www.colorquiz.com/ is much quicker; the longest part of the quiz is waiting between the first and second parts. As I understand it, the color quiz is based on valid and reliable research. (Disclaimer: I can't confirm that last statement since I haven't actually read any of the related research. ;-)

There are so many personality tests, you would need to come up with something unique and could predict behavior.

im thinking it needs to be more unique as gregbd suggested please have a look at my new idea as well under movie pitch.

this is very much the same as most sites

the login is required to keep it safe

a lot of reasearch work has to b done..

I gave you 5 stars simply because of the selling point of this website. The idea may or may not take off, but you definitely have a selling point (soul mate). Nice presentation and idea!

I think its a great idea, it's simple and would definitely work for me (although I'm not in the market for a date :) I agree with how you describe the interaction steps. I agree with d03boy...

I kinda get where you're going...but for even more simplicity you could also place an ad on craigslist. Making things too simple would just be a "hook-up" site and not a "soulmate" search. Great idea if that's the plan.

i like this... i just dont know if this would really work since its doesnt hype a thing to lure inside just by quiz content compatibility... few are into MENSA community membership after all.