If you're looking to get involved with Internet dating, the less complications the better. Works for online daters and online dating Webmasters. That's where DateApp.com hopes to step in, with what they call a first-of-its-kind integrated service letting you set up your own customized dating portal – Adult-oriented or otherwise – in a matter of minutes.
DateApp will make it so simple for you, the company says, that you won't even have to worry about the mundane administrative and maintenance tasks you might expect with this kind of portal. They'll handle site administration, profile approval, hardware maintenance, continual site upgrades, and application development.
You get set up through an online portal wizard, DateApp says, through which you get the ability to manage a highly customized, private-labeled dating portal, and to create your own theme, site text, logo, meta data, and specialized database filters to create the portal you want. Some of the flagship portals created thus far with the DateApp application include Romantici.net, AdultSky.com, CruisingForHim.com, and SickPuppy.com.
DateApp also provides a shared member database covering all 50 states and 148 countries, as well as administering fully the sites' profile approvals, chat moderation, billing, and continued application development – with a 50/50 revenue sharing program, initial and continuing, with their partner Webmasters.
"For the partnered Website, the advantage is in the ability to create a new revenue source and get valuable customer data from existing traffic," said chief executive John-Michael Cataldi.
They must be doing something right – the January Georgia Technology Summit, an independent panel that includes some of the top industry analysts, including Innovations Publishing, Market Quest, HIG Ventures, and Hunton & Williams, ranked DateApp among the top 40 most innovative companies for 2005.
The best part is the cost. There is none. Using DateApp's software application – including capabilities for video chat, member voice mail, SMS, cell phone, and speed dating – costs you nothing to download and deploy, and the entire setup can take 15 minutes.
