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Where do you find your next date?

The theory is finished; this one is a diary, and it is live. Type in any city in the world, say whether you live there or are passing through on particular dates, and answer twelve questions. It then goes and looks — real venues with real addresses, and ticketed events on their real nights — and hands back a dated list inside your window.

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IWhen are you at your most likeable?
IIA Saturday with nothing in it — out at eleven, or up at eight?
IIILoud rooms: where you do your best work, or a reason to leave?
IVDoes meeting people work better with a roster, or with nothing planned at all?
VSigning up to a twelve-week course partly to meet someone.
VIYou're most likely to talk to a stranger when…
VIIYour ideal Sunday: a hard effort, or as little movement as can be arranged?
VIIIWhich would you actually still be doing in three months?
IXBeing slightly out of breath in front of someone you fancy.
XSomewhere you had to be proposed for, or somewhere free and open to anyone?
XIMembers' clubs.
XIIThe best places to meet people are usually…

Three questions on each axis, after you have said where you are and for how long.

ANY CITYTyped in, not chosen from a list. The name is geocoded as you enter it, so Chatan works as well as Chicago.
ANY DATESThe next week, fortnight or month — or the exact days you land and leave, if you are only passing through.
REAL VENUESBars, pubs, clubs, cafes, markets, climbing walls, sports centres, dance studios, community centres, galleries, museums and restaurants, pulled live from OpenStreetMap with their addresses.
REAL EVENTSGigs, matches and theatre on their actual nights, from Ticketmaster, where a key has been configured.

Nothing here is stored in advance. The city is looked up when you type it, and the venues are fetched from the map at that moment.

NIGHTDaylight—After midnightWhen you are any use. Some of these places only exist after eleven, and some of them are finished by ten in the morning.
STRUCTURETurn up—Sign upWhether you need a roster and a register, or would rather nothing at all were arranged. This is the axis most people get wrong about themselves.
EXERTIONSitting—MovingSide by side and slightly out of breath, or across a table with a drink. Both work; they don't work for the same people.
SPENDFree—Members onlyWhat you're willing to pay for the room. Paying buys repetition — the same faces, reliably — which is the only thing money actually buys here.

Your answers put you somewhere on all four. The closest places come back, in date order.

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