Luluvise, which launched on the 15th December 2011 describes itself as ”Sex and the City marries Facebook”. A social network exclusively for girls, boys are ‘banned’ from using the site. The whole idea is to replicate the closeness between best girlfriends online, the things they talk about etc, and all without having any guys present. They have raised $1 million in equity financing from Passion Capital, PROfounders Capital, and angels to develop the site and are based in London.
The site uses Facebook Connect to allow users to sign up, although it doesn’t post any information to a users’ Facebook wall. The most interesting, or controversial thing, depending on how you look at it is the feature where you can rate ‘past conquests’ i.e You go on a date with a guy, and then score him against various categories in a bid to let your peers know how your dates have fared.
Imagine the uproar if there was a lads only site where girls were rated against specific criteria, there would be uproar! Mark Zuckerberg knows all about that.
I haven’t been able to get access to the site myself (being a boy), however I’ve had one of the team sign up and have a look around. She wasn’t impressed however.
Here are some screen grabs :
Rate your guys looks
Rate his bedroom skills:
Organise a group poll:
Check the wikidate archive to make sure you don’t date a guy with a poor score:
All in all, this is very The Only Way is Essex it seems, although they should be careful they don’t end up in court with a disgruntled, former squeeze who is unhappy with his score.
