My Idea For A Facebook App

Writing small Apps for iPhone, Facebook, MSN, Hyves is booming business now. It's not a big investment, the per-unit revenues are relatively small, but if your App catches on, potentially millions and millions of people will bring cash into your coffer. All you need is a good idea.

So here's my idea, which no doubt already exists in some shape or form, or which will be pilfered the moment I post this.

People always take great enjoyment from setting friends up whom they think would go together well. In the past they would set up a blind date between the two, or bring the two in one space in a convenient get-together.

Now for our internet social networks we could have a similar setup. I have a huge amount of contacts, and if I happen to think that two of them who don't know each other directly, should get into contact, I should be able to link them. That link would contain an invitation to bring the two into a chat, and if the connection is successful, the two would be linked themselves, and I would get credit (and an invitation to the wedding).

The app should be able to track the number of successful / failed connections you made, which tells you how good of a matchmaker you are.

Sure beats spending a tenner per month on a dating site... unless you have no friends, or your friends enjoy setting you up with utter catastrophes.