Yeah I know that's what they said, to which my response would be: "Just talk to her, ask her what she's into. Failing that, pick a social thing that people do like mini-golf or a Starbucks or a restaurant, and invite her to do that".

The pain point of "I can't connect with my niece" is not solved with "I need an app to recommend social venues I can invite her to". That's just not the problem you're trying to solve - but it is a bullshit yarn you can spin to try to pitch yet another local venue discovery app.

Chiming in to say it might also be the thinking that quality is more important than quantity in social relationships - true to point, but when your quantity is zero, ANY interaction has quality. Just knock on her door and go out for a coffee, almost any random thing would work. Not even out of 0 and freaking out to achieve the local maxima.

Except that sometimes talking with someone doesn't yield any results aside from "I dunno", "whatever", etc.

They're looking for the piece that says "here's an attractive idea" that gets that someone involved.

Sometimes I have a similar issue with my son. It's usually as simple as saying "here's what we're doing this weekend" as opposed to getting the brick wall response to "what do you want to do this weekend?" of "I dunno."

There are tons of different websites that offer "Things to do in ____" but most of them are so spammy. Something that was personalized based on your preferences/interests, or based on a group of people's preferences, would open up a lot of doors.

This is not a technical problem. If anything, what you would really need is a seminar or paid course to teach people how to interact with other humans instead of trying to rely on some app... Some people really don't know how to just talk to other people and express their feelings / figure out plans. No app is ever going to solve that.

Perhaps there's value in a business of "teaching humans how to human".

>Perhaps there's value in a business of "teaching humans how to human".

If you hire people, the answer here is yes. My experience is that technical skills are 'easy' to teach, but interpersonal skills are almost impossible.

If you figure out how to train people from a wide swath of humanity, different backgrounds, and disparate experiences to be human people and communicate effectively and efficiently, you'll literally, not figuratively, be the king of the planet.