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blogging requires effort to write content. online dating software requires effort to build the community and improve the site to a level that makes people actually want to use them. both require active work on the website that doesn't necessarily pay off, at least initially.
with drop shipping, you find your source and post it on ebay. the item sells, order an item and send it to them.
Creating a successful dating site "doesn't require anything other than building a web-app" in roughly the same way that being a successful novelist doesn't require anything other than writing a novel.
To make a successful web startup you have to deal with problems much harder than pedestrian ones like inventory and shipping. Creating a successful dating site "doesn't require anything other than building a web-app" in roughly the same way that being a successful novelist doesn't require anything other than writing a novel.
I agree that product design is non-trivial regardless of context - but some problems are a superset of the problems faced by web companies.