i will test some more things for before i give up ...but i analyze this community and dating branch and the future looks bad for small websites that try put up sites with free membership. what are you going to live on as a new started website with all plugins cost server cost and many other cost that you need deal with.
i was only vring up 25% of all cost for try get succesful with a skadate datimg site.
i have tested this now in soon 4 years and i see there is to much competions and to much sites look the same only they try find some nich nobody started yet but after 6 months somebody else have copy you and suddely you will have 5 to 10 competioners with all this white labed and finish sites everyone can buy today
you want rich do not try copy others create something with not oxwall software or skdate software and the idea should bee hard to copy with all this white label software out today.
right now i deal with 10 competioners that have same goal win and get money on same nich. and the only you can do is offer free membership but in the end what will you get with this advertising you try add. i think you will have problem survive like that
and again to they who try start a dating site ...rethinking 10 times before you do that because you will only make developers here rich not you self
oxwall is only good for they who not have goal to bee very rich....maye i wrong if i wrong i would like see they who get rich on oxwall and skadate because i think it is bullshit. they who rich i belive is they who sell this software and notice this many developers here keep they own sites VERY secret but one thing for sure this developers ALL have websites put up and if you have somehting that stand out they will copy you idea quick and easy
if i was a developer i would do the same i would keep my site secret and create awsome new stuff that nobody created before and not put this things in public and fishing new ideas that you can steel from users here in public to you site