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Fascinating.

I thought this was going to be a site about couples dating couples, like how Lily and Marshall in HIMYM were always trying to find married couples to hang out with.

I suspect this is also an interesting idea to a lot of people and might look very similar to Howaboutwe -- 1. couple dating ideas, 2. monetize by freeing couples up with babysitting.

Howaboutwe is "keep your love life fresh"

Coupledating helps married couples find similar people to hang out with. The site can help introduce couples (match.com), or keep feeding them ideas for things that 4 people can do (Howbouatwe).




I assumed this would be a swinging website when I first saw the headline.


This.


I'd be interested to know how they solve the babysitting problem. I know there is no way in the world I would ever allow a random person set up from a company into my house and then leave them alone with my children. That is a level of trust far beyond what I would have of any company. Now... if they opened a "daycare" agency with a physical local you can take your kids to, that might be a possibility.


There's a ton of babysitting services that do work the way you'd never be willing to accept, so clearly not nearly all parents are as concerned about it...


Just as an opposing data point, I have two small kids and would have no qualms about that at all.


Make it social! Tie it into Facebook or get list of friends who are couples. "Your friends Bob & Jim used this babysitter, would you like us to contact them?"


Usually nobody will recomment a good babysitter, because they'd want to keep it for themselves.


Does this exist? Seems like it should.

Sort of like how you can use linked in to figure out who people have worked with.

People with kids often have friends with kids and you can figure out all the babysitters that have one degree of separation from you.


Let the users recruit their babysitters into the service, then select from among them when arranging dates.




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