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• The ugh opportunity

Video Dating That Skips Texting

Inspired by @tferriss on the @ChrisWillx Podcast

The One Liner

Video first. IRL second. Chemistry matters most.

The 140 character tweet (or X) version

Most dating apps waste your time. This one gets you face-to-face fast—because chemistry can’t be swiped.

The Longer Story Version

The Problem
Dating apps are full of ghosts and gassed-up profiles.

You match, text for days, finally carve out time for dinner… and then 10 minutes in you’re already planning your exit strategy. No vibe. No spark. Just $18 down the drain and a dent in your night.

It’s not that there aren’t great people out there—it’s that you don’t know if you click until you see each other. Texting is a trap. Profiles are highlight reels. And nobody’s got time for 5+ first dates a month that go nowhere.

Especially not busy people. Executives, creatives, founders, high-performers—they don’t want pen pals. They want real chemistry. Fast.

The Solution
So flip the whole thing on its head: no in-person meets until you’ve Facetimed.

This app is built entirely around the video-first connection. Here’s how it works:

• ✅ You match

• 🎥 You hop on a quick video call (think Zoom, but prettier)

• ⚡ You feel if it’s right—or move on, no strings

If there’s a vibe, cool. Plan the IRL. If not, you both save time and keep it moving.

It’s swipe culture meets speed-dating 2.0, with a filter for chemistry before calendars get involved.

How We’d Build It
MVP-style:

• Frontend: FlutterFlow or Adalo for fast, native builds

• Video: Daily or Agora for smooth, embeddable video calling

• Infra: Supabase for auth and data, Clerk for identity if you want that extra slickness

• Scheduling: Cal.com integration to book convos (if you want to let them schedule)

• Analytics: PostHog to track conversions, bounce, and vibe check metrics

• Security: End-to-end encryption on video (privacy is a must here)

Optional flex: integrate OpenAI Whisper for voice-to-text summaries so users can “replay” convos with insights later.

Why It Needs to Exist
Because the best part of dating is the spark. And right now, we’ve made it harder than ever to feel it.

This app makes dating efficient again. No more endless texting. No more dead-end dinners. Just meaningful, face-to-face convos that lead somewhere.

It’s not built for everyone. But if you’re short on time and big on standards, this is your lane.

And at $50/month? It’s priced to attract people who are serious. People who value their time. People like you.

Want to test it? You only need 1,000 people paying to build a $600k/year business. That’s a whole dating empire—on one feature that actually matters: chemistry.

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Great startup ideas often begin with “ugh, not again.”

There’s a specific sound that signals opportunity.

It’s not a pitch deck.
It’s not a lightbulb moment.
It’s not even a question.

It’s a sigh.

The frustrated kind.
The “ugh, not again” kind.

That’s the sound of someone doing something they hate… but still do. Which means it matters. Which means there’s room for a better way.

Let’s break down how to turn those sighs into startups:

1. Look for loops.
If someone does a task every week and dreads it every time, automate it.
🛠 Tool: Make.com — lets you connect and automate everything without writing code.

2. Follow the friction.
Where do people get stuck? Mess up? Quit halfway? That’s your entry point.
🛠 Tool: FullStory — analyze where users drop off or rage-click inside a product.

3. If it’s in Notion, Airtable, or Sheets—productize it.
Manual + repeatable = a SaaS MVP.
🛠 Tools: Airtable, Glide, Softr — all help you turn a spreadsheet into an app.

4. Watch what people delegate.
If they’re outsourcing it, there’s a tool waiting to be built.
🛠 Tool: Scan Fiverr or Upwork for jobs done 100+ times. Then build software to replace the freelancer.

5. Ask what’s duct-taped together.
If someone says “we use Zapier + Notion + Slack to manage this,” they just described your feature list.
🛠 Tool: Whimsical or tldraw to map out those flows visually.

6. Boring is your moat.
If it sounds dull (invoicing, procurement, compliance), good. That means fewer competitors and more sticky customers.
🛠 Tool: Trends by The Hustle — great for finding big, boring business categories people are quietly making millions in.

7. If they pay for it and hate it… perfect.
Unhappy customers mean incumbents suck—and you can win on experience.
🛠 Tool: G2 — filter by 1–3 star reviews. Look for pain points you can fix.

8. Lurk in the right places.
People vent on Reddit, Slack, Twitter—not in surveys.
🛠 Tool: GummySearch — lets you mine Reddit for startup idea gold.

9. Reverse-engineer Upwork.
Look for tasks that get done manually at scale (podcast editing, web scraping, email cleanup).
🛠 Tool: Browse AI — turn manual scraping jobs into automated bots you can resell.

10. Chase “I wish” statements.
Anytime someone says, “I wish there was an app that...”, write it down like it’s your job.
🛠 Tool: Notion + Savee — create a visual moodboard of “I wish” ideas and how you’d solve them.

The Opportunity
The best founders didn’t chase big trends. They chased daily annoyances.

And the best products didn’t start with grand visions. They started with:
“Ugh. This is so dumb. There has to be a better way.”

So the next time you hear “ugh, not again”—pause.
That’s not small talk. That’s startup talk.

Just don’t forget to build it before someone else does.

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