I know for a fact that this girl [http://automateyourdate.com/testimonial/automate-your-date-t...] is on fiverr.com

I legitimately thought this was satire at first.

The question that I've got is what is your surrogate going to tell the girl in order to get you a date? You know the only way they can go viral is to start getting men dates.

What happens when the girl finds out that you're not Tom Cruise's younger brother who just sold his startup to Google? This makes much better sense as a reality TV show. Poor Allen Funt would be horrified.

Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Funt

Not sure if this is the way to win the hearts of prospective partners: caring little about the approach as to outsource personal interactions.

I imagine there's room for improvement in online dating, and can see professional help being a viable service (tips on profiles, photographer, suggesting people to contact or automating some initial contact) but I don't know if this would appeal to people?

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It might be nice if the picture of the couple at the beginning actually rotated/fade-in/out between "traditional" image of a couple, interracial, same-sex, etc.

Dating is not a "solvable" problem because asymmetric information and asymmetric supply/demand meaning that the solutions to the Stable Marriage Problem aren't applicable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_marriage_problem

"Outsourcing" just makes the informational asymmetry worse. It's a negative-sum strategy. Hooray.

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