There are many things to consider when building a social internet dating application and the first one has to be is anyone going to want it? There are over 40 pages of dating applications on Facebook alone so you need to ensure someone is going to care about the one you have built. Here is a list of things to think about before building one and for this example I will talk about implementing your application into Facebook. While this article will give you a list of things you need to prepare for the technical details, well that you will have to figure out on your own.
First and foremost do you have the ability to build it? The Facebook application system is built in its own language and requires in most cases above average programming abilities. The other thing you need to think about is whether or not you want this to count as traffic on your existing site if you have one. If you do then you will require some additional fancy programming and again you need to be up for the challenge, this will for sure require a heck of a lot of reading!
Facebook will allow you to capture a fare bit of the users information and the next part is deciding what of this information you want and what to do with it. Most of the information that you can grab from Facebook is optional so even if you build a system that can find this information and use it many of your new users won't have this information filled out so you need to plan ahead for this. You also need to be aware that Facebook doesn't block spam related IP addresses because in most cases they don't have to. Open platform applications require the ability to block IP's from certain countries and this will also be something you need to think about ahead of time.
Then there is marketing and this really is going to be one of the more crucial parts of your application launch process. You need a really well detailed and exciting name and application description page. I would also recommend making a group for your company/application and get people talking about it. Of course making sure the first step which is finding a new application that isn't being done or improving on ones that exist will give a good head start in making the jump into this market!
Overall building a internet dating application for any social network will take time and a lot of research. This is not a job for someone that doesn't have a far bit of skill and knowledge in the programming world!
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This article was written by Shawn Wilson, a member of the customer support team at Datepad, where internet dating is always free. Datepad has a massive directory of informative dating articles along with a great list of dating site reviews on their dating blog.
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