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Launch HN: Muzmatch (YC S17) – A place where 400M single Muslims can meet

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#111

It's obviously great from a business perspective, you found a niche and you're serving a community's needs. Kudos for being a smart startup. It's also funny if Ryan isn't actually Muslim... lol. But I mean elephant in the room, I don't like religious institutions or traditional societal norms based in religion, any religion. Goes without saying but it's all on the way out anyways, since we now know magical people who…

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Re: Launch HN: Muzmatch (YC S17) – A place where 400M single Muslims can meet

#112

It's obviously great from a business perspective, you found a niche and you're serving a community's needs. Kudos for being a smart startup. It's also funny if Ryan isn't actually Muslim... lol. But I mean elephant in the room, I don't like religious institutions or traditional societal norms based in religion, any religion. Goes without saying but it's all on the way out anyways, since we now know magical people who…

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Re: Launch HN: Muzmatch (YC S17) – A place where 400M single Muslims can meet

#113

It's obviously great from a business perspective, you found a niche and you're serving a community's needs. Kudos for being a smart startup. It's also funny if Ryan isn't actually Muslim... lol. But I mean elephant in the room, I don't like religious institutions or traditional societal norms based in religion, any religion. Goes without saying but it's all on the way out anyways, since we now know magical people who…

I used to agree with you, then I read sapiens and it introduced me into the importance of religion in human development and society.

Re: Launch HN: Muzmatch (YC S17) – A place where 400M single Muslims can meet

#114
post #46

How many marriages have happened through your app our of interest?

We've had 600 confirmed weddings and 6,000 couples leave after finding each other within the app We think the former is likely higher too as many choose to keep it private

I'm not really sure how to ask this politely, but have there also been troubles like already married people using the app or something?

Re: Launch HN: Muzmatch (YC S17) – A place where 400M single Muslims can meet

#115
post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Different dating apps cater to different mindsets towards dating. Some ban pictures in favor of words; while others only work if you have great pictures; then others want one to mention their annual income ranges.

The groups on Facebook are very different but it still works. You should be able to build most things on top of the platform. Flickr was the social network for photographers but most photographers post on Facebook now.

Ehh, most photographers advertise on Facebook (for free, via postings on a page), while pushing their users to other sites to actually browse their content. Basically, they use Facebook as a glorified RSS feed for their external site.

Re: Launch HN: Muzmatch (YC S17) – A place where 400M single Muslims can meet

#116
The two biggest problems (Europe has) with the integration of Muslims in our society are our societies prejudice and the forming of parallel society by the immigrants, leaving them isolated from the greater society they are supposed to join.

How do you address this issue? After all, this app could be seen as reinforcement of the stereotype that Muslims do not want to mix with non-Muslims.

And, to be honest, having "Islamic, sect, and ethnicity filters" - this sounds just wrong to me. Do other dating apps have ethnicity filters, too?

Re: Launch HN: Muzmatch (YC S17) – A place where 400M single Muslims can meet

#117

It's obviously great from a business perspective, you found a niche and you're serving a community's needs. Kudos for being a smart startup. It's also funny if Ryan isn't actually Muslim... lol. But I mean elephant in the room, I don't like religious institutions or traditional societal norms based in religion, any religion. Goes without saying but it's all on the way out anyways, since we now know magical people who…

  >> "we now know"
That's what "they" say as well. There isn't a thing such as universal truth, because so much depends on the point of view.

Also, you can simply move magical people from the sky further into the stars.

And did you know that Einstein was a believer? That helped me to cross the threshold of tolerance.

Re: Launch HN: Muzmatch (YC S17) – A place where 400M single Muslims can meet

#119

The two biggest problems (Europe has) with the integration of Muslims in our society are our societies prejudice and the forming of parallel society by the immigrants, leaving them isolated from the greater society they are supposed to join. How do you address this issue? After all, this app could be seen as reinforcement of the stereotype that Muslims do not want to mix with non-Muslims. And, to be honest, having "I…

An important point indeed regarding isolation but just in case you don't know, Islam prevents muslim women from marrying non muslims and I guess this is the main issue. For men, it's fine to marry Christian or Jewish woman.

Re: Launch HN: Muzmatch (YC S17) – A place where 400M single Muslims can meet

#120

It's obviously great from a business perspective, you found a niche and you're serving a community's needs. Kudos for being a smart startup. It's also funny if Ryan isn't actually Muslim... lol. But I mean elephant in the room, I don't like religious institutions or traditional societal norms based in religion, any religion. Goes without saying but it's all on the way out anyways, since we now know magical people who…

Your views against religion seem as dogmatic as any religious views I've heard.

You say you worry about religion dividing us but use language aimed to offend people of all faiths. Many of those people would offer you more respect than your offering them.

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