If you're online, look me up

blinka.me is a way for people who may have shared a fleeting moment in public to meet again online. Photo / Paul Estcourt

A new website offers singles who are too shy to chat up strangers they meet a second chance to reunite online.

The Kiwi team behind blinka.me are pitching the website as a safer alternative to giving out personal details in bars.

And it's a way for people who may have shared a fleeting moment in public to meet again online. "We're trying to make the whole reconnection thing easier, since it can be a little bit intimidating," says chief executive Duncan Shand.

Rather than asking for a phone number or date, singles can suggest they look each other up on the site.

Or users can load the date, time and details of a "moment" they've shared, and wait for an email if anyone lists a matching moment.

One post reads: "Met this really nice girl just before going to the 8pm session of Harry Potter 6 at Hoyts Riccarton. Got talking but then the movie started and I didn't see her afterwards."

About 500 people have signed up in the past two months and the site has received more than 3500 hits for each month.

Shand says at least one single has had success - a woman he was too shy to ask out at a bar where they met. And many more are trying their luck: "It's early days yet."

* blinka.me