What should be basic features of any dating website?

Hello Friends !
I’m new to this forum and almost new about posting question at forums :p. I’m currently developing a dating site, that is a niche site though. I have already added some features ( I will list below) and I want to add some more features, I hope you guys will help me out with this one. Please at least one feature that I should add to the site. Thank you very much in advance :slight_smile: :stuck_out_tongue:

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  • Basic and advance search
  • Messaging
  • Profile
  • Photos
  • Videos
  • Gifts (user can send gifts to other users)
  • Daily match list
  • Perfect match suggestion

I’m waiting eagerly :stuck_out_tongue: for your reply.

How well do you know your potential visitors? It might be good to do a thorough analysis of your target audience to see what their preferences might be. Maybe you could do a poll if you have current contacts you could survey. Finding out as much as you can about them will have the most impact on what you are planning to deliver. Good luck.

Thanks for answer BoostSoftware, Yeah this will definitely help me.

First, what specific location do you target in your dating website? It is best for targeting visitors. In addition to the above list of features, you can add icons of love or like for the popularity of the particular person and also for me the most important feature is showing preference for their future partner in life.

For a dating website, it is important to have a great web design first of all. Also, make sure that you enable the chat feature so that more number of people register on your website and get to know each other.

hundreds of fake profiles sending out fake messages to potential users :smiley:

JK JK JK but you could still do that to bring in a lot of users :wink:

A “wink” feature is always liked by users. It’s similar to a “like” on facebook and people will be more willing to use it. Make it so that if User1 winks at User2 and then User2 winks back, they can then message each other :smiley:

Adding an events list and sort of promotional item. This is to allow users to reach promotional resources, added interest and chance to direct communication with other members.