I signed up for Hitchoo over the weekend because I wanted to see how the site worked. I did it with the blessings of my girlfriend of course. I guess she was mildly confident about my lack of market value to let me even attempt to score some dates on the site.
I’m not sure if the version of the Hit List I’m seeing is different because I didn’t get a paid membership but from the list of events and the people bidding to go for that event, I’ve come to a few conclusions.
There is an imbalance in the participation of guys and girls.
1. More guys are creating events.
2. If a guy creates an event, the response from the ladies are few if not zero.
At the time of writing, there are only 3 guys getting any response from the ladies for their events. Once has a picture of himself which flatters his looks but I think it might have more to do with the fact he is offering to pay for his date. The other doesn’t have a picture of himself so I think his selling points are his degrees and his job in the finance industry – the ladies are thinking he is rich. The last guy has a cartoony picture of himself and no meaningful information on his profile – either the ladies going for his events are dummy accounts or women in Singapore really love clowns.
The response for events created by ladies are overwhelming.
From a technical perspective, the site is slow and the tabs for the Hit List take a long time to respond and show the respective pages. Sometimes, the content shown does not match the tab.
The founder Yinghan in an interview with Singapore Entrepreneurs shared that about 250 dates had been created for the Hit List in the one and a half months since its founding. I wonder about the response for those events.
Maybe those events did so well, and the members found love such that the site’s services were no longer needed. Maybe.
I wonder how the site is going to increase the level of participation of the ladies.
Then again, maybe it doesn’t need to. There might be guys desperate enough to pay for a membership just for the function to be able to invite a girl for an event instead of waiting for her to respond.
Yinghan | 04-Mar-08 at 3:19 am | Permalink
Hi Ian,
Thanks for your detailed note! Hitchoo’s Hit-list is currently still in beta stage; hence your comments about speed on website and imbalance of response will help us improve the system.
With regards to the number of events created as 250, many of the events are 1-on-1 private dates which members created. These events cannot be seen on the Hit-list.