I'm baaaaaack!!! :-) After chatting with Sheri Miles last week, I'm ready to develop again! Is there a way to match users with similarities, such as fitness levels, age, gender, location? I am going to a 3 Day Startup (3DS) this weekend to propose an idea, and if my idea is accepted, we could possibly work for 3 days (with little sleep) on the project. :-) I want to be able to "match" workout buddies with similar demographics and fitness levels. Is this possible? Has this been done before? Please share any ideas. BTW, my baby is 6 months already (for those of you who remember me!) :D

I'd ask someone who majored in statistics, which sadly isn't me. In the meantime, since I have no statistics background, I'd probably do some type of survey, which would probably end up being a web based platform more than Mobile... but formatted for mobile so it could be performed on the device. A Web Page with lots of questions and checkboxes and things, and an SQL database on the back end to hold the data. Then somewhere, someone would need to write a php script looking for matching fields, and groups of records with the same matching fields.... something along those lines. Not scientific, but the best I can think of off hand... Cheers! -- Smug And Congrats on the new programmer in the family! :)

Yeah I only took the 1 required statistics class in college so I can't help you there. I look at problems like this from a database point of view because that's all i know. You would have to have a lot of table columns so you could you could "mine" a lot of different ways. PHP scripts could work, but I don't know how to make that work in an android or ios app.

Welcome back, Alfrea! While I don't have any helpful ideas for your proposal, I did want to jump into the thread and wish you congratulations! 6 months! Time flies! -Chris

Wow, six months already! Absolutely amazing how fast time flies. I hope you are enjoying every moment! The statistical method could probably be used more to find a "good" match vs. just a match based on the parameters that you suggest. However, either way would likely require some advanced algorithms. I'm sure it could be written in PHP and implemented into an app fairly easily. The main question is whether it can be done in three days or not! Welcome back! Mark

I am numerical mathematician by trade and I can do all the PHP in the backend that you want... fast. You can contact me through this link if you want to: http://www.bestappbuilders.com/blog/contact-us/contact-us/

Thanks for all of the information. The 3DS will be at Geekdom, a working place for "geeks," so hopefully I will meet some people who understand PHP. If not, then I'll contact Dusko. This can be a future plug-in. Hint, hint. :-)

Glad you are back sister! Amazing talented girl! Time to the world know it now! Love working on projects with you...keep up the great work! Glad you are asking for help :) Best of luck at Geekdom... super jealous! ((((hugs)))) Sheri

Hi Alfrea I have sent you a private message via this forum, please have a look there.