[ecmascript]

Seems pretty cool, although who is it for?

I have tried out several of these services before in a way to finding new friends but 99% of them is filled with people that actually are more interested in finding a date instead of a mate.

[pitherandd]

Right, that is a very good point. That reason is why I neglected to add a gender option, as I felt the inclusion of that filtering criteria would steer the culture towards that of a dating site.

As for its reason for being, it's mostly because I just think it's a bit of a shame how there could be this awesome person down the street or in my city, and I could live my whole life without finding that out. I was hoping to develop a service that might alleviate that.

For example, if you were into some obscure Steam game, you could specify that as an interest and potentially see that someone else near you also shares that interest as well. You then might message them, play together, and then if you hit it off some time down the line you could eventually meet in real life as well.

[ecmascript]

Yeah, but in order for your project to be successful in that way it would have to mean that a lot of people need to sign up.

I live in a rural area in northen europe, they chances of this site becoming big enough for it to be interesting for me are very slim. Of course I could find internet friends through it, but that's not what the site claims to aim to solve for me.

I don't want to be negative, but I think the most common first question will be what gender people are since that info is missing. People will just go around whatever obstacles exist in order to date if that's what they want. I would suggest instead of having a separate dating section so those people will fill up there instead.

Dating and sex also sells and could help the signups along the way.

[Toorkit]

Met a guy on Omegle this way and we've been playing games together for 8 years now. Would be interesting to try this and find people close by!