Sat 3rd June AM 

After licking my wounds yesterday, (a day spent with little progress) I got a suggestion to watch some U.T Tutorials, (thanks Alex), which I did. In particular the custom page builder. I was struck by the amount of instructions required, even from a expert programmer, to get a simple page executed on the platform, there was even some HTML editing, which is, in my opinion a "no go" if your hoping to aim this platform at mass-market. Rather than give me some confidence, and encouragement, it left me feeling some what vindicated, that this was something outside my skill set.  Now about me, I studied Electronic Engineering at college, I worked at senior group level for a Hotel Chain, in Quality Management, and Leisure Management, I worked as a consultant on the design of a Leisure management software applicationso i'm fairly competent with the basic P.C / software Applications / skills. I'm an Entrepreneur, self employed, business owner, and I built, and maintain my own website presently, so In my opinion, I'd certainly be your typical customer!  But,  as I see it, using this platform to build even the most basic website, is beyond my capabilities. (So If I'm not getting it, your in trouble!)  I'm certainly not been critical, I SEE the potential and genius in it, I wish I could do it! But i'm been honest as balls of ice cream here!!! This is not, an "end user" product!

Consider for one moment your potential market, ideally "Idea People" who WANT this S.M platform! They want it to be their very own. Let further break down this group:-

What type of "Idea person" wants to build a social media site, as opposed to a regular website? The answer is of course People who want to Connect other People!  At present, unfortunately, (the devils work) facebook, have that market nailed, i can simply build a secret group for free. Sure, facebook is crap! but nevertheless 1/2 of the globe is on it. So that leaves the "Casual Dating Market" as your primary customer, of which I'm one of. I note also, in your own blog, you have just signed up a new customer "Friends with Benefits" so that confirms my theory in part.

Now as it stands, UNA is trying too hard, to;- "be like facebook" in my opinion, certainly from the "customer front end", and gentlemen, in my humble opinion this is not the answer! You see Face Book, revolves around. "the person" ONE person!  Casual Dating sites need to consider TWO people and a lot more!

For example, can I build a COUPLE profile, combined M/F profile, using the existing, core apps in UNA? Perhaps its possible, but it's certainly not screaming at me!

Can I have a Couple "Primary Member' and a "Linked' profile Partner/Spouse/ F/Bud ??  And IF so, how will a message sent to a "Couple Profile" be handled by the platform??  

Also requried, (someone mentioned it already in a blog post i read) a sort of; Administrator / Moderator Assignable - "Profile Verification" Badges. "Verified in Person", "Verified by Camera", Verified by Government Photo Document".  fakes / spam / trolls, are a huge problem on casual dating web sites btw!   A white label platform, give me, custom; members / levels, a forum (the one you have is great btw) a blog, Live Chat, Moderated (supervised / delayed ) Messages, (needs to be for casual dating) particularly at  "unverified" membership"  level.  Event Calander, Info Pages.

Gentleman all this and more it needs to be, out of the box, otherwise it's about as useful, as an ash tray on a motorbike!  I'll have a go at some more building later.

Gentleman