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Re: Greensboro Man Creates Dating App Where He's the Only Guy Allowed

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Post by realbarack »

zeroonetwothree wrote: post #40
fluxic wrote: post #9

Looking back on the 2010s app wave, it's hard to think of any other app (including FB, Uber, and Airbnb) who have had a bigger cultural impact than Tinder.

Tinder had no effect on a large percent of the population. So your estimation of the cultural impact is skewed by your personal experience.

Assuming by "a large percent of the population" you mean "people who are no longer dating," this is not a good way to think about it. Analogously, there are many cultural trends that people don't engage with after they are teenagers (music, fashion, etc.) but it would be wrong to claim that these trends don't have high cultural impact.

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Post by randomsearch »

chroem- wrote: post #36

Dating apps are extremely broken, and yet they're almost all owned by a single company: Match Group. I have a suspicion that these apps are left intentionally broken to keep users fruitlessly searching and boost engagement metrics. I can't find a complete list of the companies they've acquired, but last time I checked, Match owns over 20 different apps and dating sites, including Tinder, OkCupid, and Hinge. We really…

See also: Facebook/Insta/Whatsapp.

One of the (many) major flaws in capitalism is that it incentivises the elimination of competition.

Re: Greensboro Man Creates Dating App Where He's the Only Guy Allowed

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Post by dash2 »

toxik wrote: post #56
jacquesc wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've noticed Hinge go way down in quality since Match bought them. Where on Tinder, 1/10 gals ever reply to a message. Hinge used to be 1 out of 2 (or higher). Now it's slowly creeping down to Tinder levels. Or maybe it's just me.

It’s somehow in the nature of dating apps to wax and wane, much like social networks. There’s some sense of novelty and excitement that wears off eventually. I think Tinder will eventually die too, and by the sound of it, already is well on its way.

Can confirm that in the UK, Tinder is pretty terrible. Hinge and Bumble are OK. OKCupid is gently dying under Match.com's tender care, but it's still my favourite because people actually have to say something about themselves.

Can also confirm that online dating is a horrible, confidence-destroying nightmare (presumably for both sexes).

Re: Greensboro Man Creates Dating App Where He's the Only Guy Allowed

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Post by erikpukinskis »

chroem- wrote: post #36

Dating apps are extremely broken, and yet they're almost all owned by a single company: Match Group. I have a suspicion that these apps are left intentionally broken to keep users fruitlessly searching and boost engagement metrics. I can't find a complete list of the companies they've acquired, but last time I checked, Match owns over 20 different apps and dating sites, including Tinder, OkCupid, and Hinge. We really…

Can you say more about what’s not working?

I’ve been with my girlfriend three years, just bought a car together. It’s going well! We met on OKcupid.

I’m a happy customer, though I don’t think I’ve ever paid them anything.

Re: Greensboro Man Creates Dating App Where He's the Only Guy Allowed

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Post by vbtemp »

LudwigNagasena wrote: post #52
vbtemp wrote: post #34

I had an idea for a dating app a while back, in which the basic idea is that you pay the service to message someone (above a free weekly limit of say 1 msg). The pricing would be reactive - as popular attractive people get more messages, the more it would cost to message them, growing exponentially in order to limit incoming messages to approx a few a day. Unpopular people who got few messages would have a price that…

Desperate ugly men will crowd out handsome guys who can get laid on Tinder without paying for anything, and you will basically have a service for finding a sugar daddy.

Fair point that I had not considered. However, I would not necessarily say desperate but may be risk-taking, strategic thinking, and/or wealthy (enough to handle congestion prices) men

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Post by woadwarrior01 »

brenden2 wrote: post #8

I've thought about making a new dating app. The existing apps suck for 2 reasons: in most markets men are at a significant disadvantage because of how men and women differ in the way they approach dating (and there's also a significantly unfair male:female ratio in many markets). Additionally, none of them are really designed to get people off the app, but rather they're built to increase engagement and keep people o…

A remotely related idea that I was thinking about a while ago, which came back to my mind while reading Vitalik's "Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency" blog post that I found here[1], yesterday. Specifically the problem of spam is a special case of a Sybil attack[2]. People usually tend to be better behaved in real life than they tend to do in online anonymous/pseudonymous settings. Tying the two in a privacy sensitive way might be the way to go. IMO, any attempt at verifying that people actually did go out on a date after matching on a dating app would be a rich signal that the user(s) are not spammers or bots. The UX for this could perhaps take the form of a QR code that one could scan from their date's phone (or vice-versa).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21618079

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack

Re: Greensboro Man Creates Dating App Where He's the Only Guy Allowed

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Post by AgloeDreams »

vbtemp wrote: post #34

I had an idea for a dating app a while back, in which the basic idea is that you pay the service to message someone (above a free weekly limit of say 1 msg). The pricing would be reactive - as popular attractive people get more messages, the more it would cost to message them, growing exponentially in order to limit incoming messages to approx a few a day. Unpopular people who got few messages would have a price that…

"My idea of a dating app: Literally enforces class based social ranking"

It really doesn't take much to realize that this pricing scheme would exclusively benefit the rich and white, right?

Like for a successful, white, male, software engineer like myself I could afford to reach out to whomever I would like anytime I want, this would be heaven! But for someone in a worse social position they would be basically blocked from talking to more than one person, regardless of their looks, personality, or ambitions.

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Post by jressey »

erikpukinskis wrote: post #64
chroem- wrote: post #36

Dating apps are extremely broken, and yet they're almost all owned by a single company: Match Group. I have a suspicion that these apps are left intentionally broken to keep users fruitlessly searching and boost engagement metrics. I can't find a complete list of the companies they've acquired, but last time I checked, Match owns over 20 different apps and dating sites, including Tinder, OkCupid, and Hinge. We really…

Can you say more about what’s not working? I’ve been with my girlfriend three years, just bought a car together. It’s going well! We met on OKcupid. I’m a happy customer, though I don’t think I’ve ever paid them anything.

Survivorship Bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

I met my wife online after a year of fruitless first dates. Maybe I'm just unappealing or something but it was truly a miserable part of my life.

Edit: I'm gonna add in here that most people don't have the stick-to-itiveness that most readers of this site do.

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