I figured I would bump this thread with our announcement.... It goes hand and hand....

We've decided to cut our losses and drop our upcoming gay dating site. We're dropping it for several reasons:
a) Too much competition out there already.
b) There's so many free gay dating sites out there that have all or better features than we can implement.
c) We're short staffed again to manage, market, and promote it. We had a marketing plan that was 30 pages in length of all the different ways we could market the site.
d) With being short handed, we'd rather invest our marketing and advertising more towards the paysites.

We will be turning gaysting into a membership site with a free forum for public and members to chat back and forth on.

It's official that Gay Sting has lost it's little stinger.

Gay Dating / Hookup sites are very difficult to manage. I have watched the growth of CumHunt.com. Over $60,000 has been put into the site development and marketing. They are nowhere where they want to be but are getting there.

Hookup sites simply do not succeed without A LOT of money. Look at what we spent just in development.

I do wish you the best of luck with your site. With that layout and function of the site I do not believe it's going to go anywhere. The first thing I see when I go to the site is an ad. It lost my interest at that point and I'm on about 10 different hookup sites. Your site gives me no reason to join.

Take a look at Adam4Adam, Gay.com, Gaywatch, Manhunt, DudesNude, and the others. That's how they've made it successful. Between Adam4Adam, Gay.com, and Manhunt over $5,000,000 (million) has been spent alone in basic marketing and development. When Adam4Adam first launched, they spent over $500,000 in marketing. And marketing is one thing you can never stop on. The second you do stop you will see your traffic decrease and decrease over time. Just like a paysite will.