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		<title>Hitchoo Will Probably Not Help My Love Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I signed up for <a href="http://hitchoo.com/" target="_blank">Hitchoo</a> 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.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not sure if the version of the Hit List I&#8217;m seeing is different because I didn&#8217;t get a paid membership but from the list of events and the people bidding to go for that event, I&#8217;ve come to a few conclusions.</p>
<p>There is an imbalance in the participation of guys and girls.</p>
<p>1.  More guys are creating events.</p>
<p>2.  If a guy creates an event, the response from the ladies are few if not zero.  </p>
<p>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&#8217;t have a picture of himself so I think his selling points are his degrees and his job in the finance industry &#8211; the ladies are thinking he is rich.  The last guy has a cartoony picture of himself and no meaningful information on his profile &#8211; either the ladies going for his events are dummy accounts or women in Singapore really love clowns.</p>
<p>The response for events created by ladies are overwhelming.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The founder Yinghan <a href="http://sgentrepreneurs.com/singapore-entrepreneurs/2008/02/14/hu-yinghan-hitchoo-valentine-day/">in an interview with Singapore Entrepreneurs</a> 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.</p>
<p>Maybe those events did so well, and the members found love such that the site&#8217;s services were no longer needed.  Maybe.</p>
<p>I wonder how the site is going to increase the level of participation of the ladies.</p>
<p>Then again, maybe it doesn&#8217;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.</p>
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