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

Post by vbtemp » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 4:19 PM UTC

_exnk wrote: post #96

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…

Purely a thought experiment here: what do you think would happen if rather than making "ugly people" free to message, you incentivized the message? Pay $1 per message to a hot person, get paid $1 per message to an ugly person. I wonder if that market would find equilibrium. Edit: I guess the "purely a thought experiment" disclaimer got dismissed by everybody looking for a little outrage today. This is not a business…

Post by akersten » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 4:19 PM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #97

akersten wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Match is not responsible for your lack of success in online dating. Having a lot of brands is not a good reason to involve the government. Hilton hotels has over a dozen brands. There's nothing stopping you from creating a competing dating app. If you have some insight into what's "extremely broken" and a solution for it, you might even attract customers. Sorry for being brash, but I've been seeing a lot of unjustifi…

What major dating sites are not owned by Match?

Post by saagarjha » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 4:21 PM UTC

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.

Post by akersten » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 4:21 PM UTC

freehunter wrote: post #104

akersten wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Match is not responsible for your lack of success in online dating. Having a lot of brands is not a good reason to involve the government. Hilton hotels has over a dozen brands. There's nothing stopping you from creating a competing dating app. If you have some insight into what's "extremely broken" and a solution for it, you might even attract customers. Sorry for being brash, but I've been seeing a lot of unjustifi…

It's not about the number of brands but the percentage owned of the market. Hilton has a dozen brands but they're just one of several brands competing in the space. If Hilton bought up Marriott and IHG and Accor and Choice and Wyndham and Starwood, THEN you'd have a point. If Match owns all of the dating sites/apps and intentionally makes terrible matches to keep people engaged and buys out any competitor that challe…

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 4:22 PM UTC