Just took the test, Intriguing concept! Curious to know how the questions were framed though - several of them seem to address the general point of your outlook on life. If someone finds a soulmate in a couple of months, please report back!
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@manasvinik Exactly what I was going to say. It's smart though. You are not defined by the pages you like on Facebook, your favorite color, or anything futile like this.
«8^8 is not yet available in your country [=Switzerland] at this time. Hopefully a translated version will be available soon.» Huh? That doesn't make sense. Let me do the test in English, I think I can handle that.
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Indeed @davidbauer! Why limit the service to localized versions? Seems quite odd.
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Like the idea and took the test. Anyone else thinking the same as me, that I'm not really looking for another me but someone who compliments me? Opposites attract and all that...
@fredrivett So I'm already happily married, but I took the test for kicks. I agree with you that people who have complimentary traits tend to have stronger relationships than people who are looking to end up with themselves.
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So I finished my test but then chose not to give my e-mail. I know that probably sounds strange, and actually I think it's a super interesting concept...but my thought was this:
What do I have to gain and what do I have to lose by meeting a 'soulmate'?
Is finding a kind of personality doppleganger something that would bring value to me and if so why?
I'm not sure I have answers to those questions... Without them it seemed almost unfair to continue. The pitch her is that this is more than just a kind of circus act, but intended to bring you something valuable...what did you guys think of this in terms of value? What are you searching for?
This made me really think quite a bit and that's good!
Nice idea. On your homepage you state that “or 8^8 to start matching soulmates with each other, statistically, at least 16,777,216 users need to have taken the 8^8 test.” I think you fell victim of the Birthday paradox there. It only takes a few thousands people to be statistically probable that a match occurs, and since the majority of people will gravitate towards probably 4-5 answers, even less than that (if there were 6 answers, the combinations would drop to 250k.). By the time you have a hundred thousands answers or more, quite a lot of people should be able to have an instant match, and even when you hit the magic 8^8, not *everyone* will have one as it is absolutely certain that not everyone has chosen a different combination of answers :)
This makes is even cooler, nonetheless!
@giordanobd Interesting. Turns out, given a group of 23 people, the chance that two of them were born on the same date is 50%. It means the number of matches out of 16,777,216 will be pretty high. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bir...
Also, I wonder how many Product Hunters will find each other :)
Surprised Facebook connect isn't involved in this somehow...wouldn't that data provide a better picture of who you are and your personality? Something tells me Facebook could easily put together a matching algo to do this today :)
Love the simplicity. The questions and answers are well worded and pointed.
I am super curious about what a "match" email will look like... what if there are multiple matches?
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