some businesses sell dating & matchmaking services to the market of single people.
it might be hard to bootstrap such a business and compete with established competitors with major market share as the value of a matchmaking business surrounds growing a marketplace of people to offer many possible opportunities for matches to people who sign up (it might even be a bunch of different sub markets, some two sided, some one sided, etc).
i believe plentyoffish (founded by a single single person, iirc) tackled this by initially offering a free service without any revenue source, until the value of the business was realised by selling it with its large free userbase to an established competitor.
another downside of a dating & matchmaking business model is (at least for some segment of customers) if you succeed in making a good match for them then you remove them from your target market, and they cease being customers.
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some businesses sell dating & matchmaking services to the market of single people.
it might be hard to bootstrap such a business and compete with established competitors with major market share as the value of a matchmaking business surrounds growing a marketplace of people to offer many possible opportunities for matches to people who sign up (it might even be a bunch of different sub markets, some two sided, some one sided, etc).
i believe plentyoffish (founded by a single single person, iirc) tackled this by initially offering a free service without any revenue source, until the value of the business was realised by selling it with its large free userbase to an established competitor.
another downside of a dating & matchmaking business model is (at least for some segment of customers) if you succeed in making a good match for them then you remove them from your target market, and they cease being customers.