Want to get a dating website built, need encouragement.

Hey guys, new member here.

I have a very interesting niche in my mind, and I would like to put it into action. Has anyone managed to be successful in this area without knowing how to code? And is there a successful example of a succesfull dating website which uses a ready made script like skadate?

Are all of you successful webmasters expert at coding? Is there anyone of you who managed to make a profitable website by getting another person to code it for you?

Im not an technologically illiterate person, I know which steps to take. Like buying a ready made script, hiring a freelancer to make the tweaks. I have a great plan for marketing it, and Im sure ill get traffic to my website once its up and running smoothly.

Im very confident that my niche has a very good shot at success. Just need some encouragement from you guys. Im a succesful real estate investor, this will be my first shot at the cyber world.

Ive allocated a budget of around 7500-10,000 for this project and am writing the business plan as we speak.

Please all you successful webmasters who arent whiz at coding give me a shout out and share experiences.

Thanks in advance.

 

Keep up the good work.

Its vital especially today with all the negative thinkers and complainers to keep your self motivated. If it doesn't go your way sue right?

Lazy, lazy, lazy

Do the small things if you want to succeed long term.

For the past 3 years or so I watching videos by mentors like Tony Robbins, Jim Rohn, Brian Tracy and others.

Losers won't take the time but the common thing with over 90% of successful people is they do this stuff.

 

Before getting into the dating niche think of who you'll be up against:

match
zoosk
ourtime
blackpeoplemeet
christianmingle
christiancafe
jdate
itsjustlunch
plentyoffish

and a host of other well established sites.

I'd say hold your horses and wait till the excitement and enthusiasm cool down. You may see that maybe it's not such a great idea. Sorry, I can't offer any encouragement when it comes to this particular niche. Just to get the first 10 real sign ups may take you months and months.

 

None of those sites will be my competitors. My idea is a geographically special niche, the country im planning to establish this site does not send traffic to the sites above.

 

Sarah, my main competitor will be TanTan, not tinder. Its a tinder like app, in chinese. This will be a very specific niche.

 

Its a tinder clone and a very successful one at it. That app is worth millions or might even be worth millions. It has huge penetration in China unlike Tinder.

I dont want it to be an app as its much harder to monetize. And when you're talking about an app it has to be custom built, so that will set me back more than the budget I allocated.

 

Knew nothing about Tan Tan. Found this informative article on it though:

https://www.larrysalibra.com/how-chinese-tinder-clone-screws-you/

 

Have you heard of an instance where someone hired an indian/bengali to make the app, and the app became a hit? Most successful aps Ive seen are customely made by the founders of the said company. Like snapchat. I might get an app made, but I dont think its necessary.

 

Racism? Haha. Im far from a racist. Its just that nearly everyone who offers outsourcing programming service online is either Pakistani/Indian or Bengali.

Anyway thanks for your input, I just wanted some feedback and suddenly Im being called a racist.

 

Webmaster and at the same time as a programmer also is rare today as i think due to its demand in the market field. Taking on both specialized field will consume a lot of time and the branding as well as the promotions will be less in this process.

 

Thank you so much for your wonderful reply, btw your site looks fantastic.

 

To answer your question... I highly highly doubt you will see success with using a premade script unless you have someone customize the layout and the code to make it unique. If you find something similar to what you want then by all means use a script. However, I'm sure you will need to go the custom route.

I've gone down the social networking road before. I've seen mild success with it back in the early myspace days. But things were different. It was literally a pain in the ass to manage and during it's peak I made a couple thousand a month from adsense. But within few months when MySpace exploded my site faded. I tried to make it MySpace friendly by offering widgets but it just went down hill. Fast forward years later ONCE in a blue moon someone would login to cancel lol.

Over the years I've also attempted dating sites too. My dating web sites were a complete failure. The problem is when someone joins they are ONLY using the site to find people in their area. If there's noone in their area they just delete. You need to have enough male/female, straight/bi/gay, white/black/asian/spanish/.../, red heads/brunettes/blondes, and athletic/skinny/overweight people of different styles in every area to retain a customer. Imagine going to walmart to look for a specific item then walking in to this store that looks huge from the outside to simply find an empty store with just 4 brooms and no employees. What would you do? Most likely leave.... I don't suggest a dating web site.

 

Thank you so much for the input!

 

In my opinion, it will only succeed if you truly do have niche, as other users have pointed out, the dating market is incredibly saturated at the moment.

If you really feel that you have something new and different then why not go for it? I don't see any problem in hiring a freelancer to code the site for you.

The real work will come after the site has been developed, attracting a strong and active user base will be crucial - the difficulty with dating is that people are reluctant to pay (understandably) unless there really is a diverse and very large group of users, so think carefully about how you will monetize!