[davidkatz]

'Hang out with people that are similar to you' is a good value proposition. It's a need that many people have that's not met well on the web today. On it's own though, it lacks credibility.

My first reaction would be: 'Meh, whatever. A hundred products already tried to get me to hang out with people like, and I'm using none of them'.

Perhaps it would be useful to consider the problem.

The web is full of places where you can interact with people around topics of interest. Reddit, Facebook Groups, countless chat products, and a sea of specialised communities from Chess servers to HN.

The biggest problem left unsolved in this space is: how do you get people to form real relationships online. Relationships that spill over beyond the site in which it originated and give you a chance for genuine friendship.

If Evemi lets me have more superficial interactions with people around topics of interest, it's probably not going to go very far. If it does have the chance to get me to form genuine relationships, I'd need to know how it does that before giving any credence to 'Hang out with people that are similar to you'.

Just my 2 cents.