Meetup.com does a good job of connecting groups of people together
that share a common interest.

However, I do not want to be around people who think like me once a
month or once a week. I want to be around people who think like me
80-100% of the time. Life is too precious to spend it with
individuals that do not share similar goals, interests, values, and
ideas.

My mission is to surround myself with people that think like me or as
I like to call them "kindred spirits". This mission can be
accomplished by creating a website that connects people one-on-one
based on the common interests and ideas. Meetup.com does a good job
of connecting one person to a group of people, but no efficient
mechanism is provided to determine whether or not the individuals in
the group are similar to me. Determining similarity requires me to
attend a couple meetings and get to know everyone. This can be very
time consuming. What I really want to do is give everyone I encounter
a questionnaire so that I can discover the people with which I want to
interact.
This one-on-one sort of solution is partially implemented on dating
sites, as well as, myspace and facebook. Yet, these sites typically
focus on shallow issues like personal appearance, star signs, and what
happened on American Idol last night :(. I am designing a site that
connects people based on as many features as they are willing to
share. For instance, I would like to be able to go online and find
someone that wants to talk about Austrian Economics that also rides
the same train as I do or works near me and likes Thai food for lunch.


This sort of system would revolutionize the way in which relationships
are established. It would also revolutionize the manner in which
people choose the community in which they live. Before looking for a
place to rent I could go online to discover the locations with the
greatest density of people that are similar to me. There is no better
way to live than next to kindred spirits. Sure beats the old way of
looking for a place to rent/buy without ever meeting the neighbors!

Chad Nelson