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

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In a country where single men outnumber single women by up to 3,000 to 1, creating a dating app where the male creator is the only man allowed might sound like a good idea. Unfortunately, it isn't much more likely to get him a date in the United States of America where 98% of women born after 1980 are lesbian, many are in gangs, and they are nothing but selfish, unapproachable, and spoiled rotten with a bad attitude, most women are obese and the only reason they are single is because their own tremendous girth is keeping men away like a cement wall, and the only attractive straight ones are 90210-minded gold diggers aka you better be financially capable of living in Beverly Hills, California, or even Hidden Hills, California (which is similar to Beverly Hills, except Hidden Hills is a gated community).

The dating scene for men sucks in the United States. American women are worthless trash. They are nothing but drama just waiting to happen. Prison terms, restraining orders, divorce, a criminal record for the man. The only logical thing to do is save up some money and GET OUT of America! Countries like Mexico, Brazil, Costa Rica, the Philippines, Thailand, France, and Greece have far superior quality women who are not one or the other; either morbidly obese with an unattractively massive girth, man-hating lesbians, or 90210-minded gold diggers.

In fact, check out http://www.happierabroad.com

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Is meeting a stranger in a public place actually dangerous, or do people just feel that it's dangerous? What is the worst that is likely to happen if two people meet up in a cafe or city park?

Ingrid Lane[0] was murdered by a man she met on an online dating site and had been dating for a month. Meeting strangers may not be a high risk for you but it is for other people. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Ingrid_Lyne

They had been dating for a month at that point, so how they originally met was not nearly as relevant as his extensive criminal record was.

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I don't think that applies here, although maybe I'm only right about users who understand what they are doing/have the right mindset. I've lost the attribution, but someone said that "dating is a numbers game. The goal is to go on as many first dates as possible, to get in front of as many people as possible. At this, tinder (and associates) absolutely excel. There is no other way to reliably find a lot of single peo…

That is not the mathematicians approach. https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2014/05/15/312537965/h... Most people commit to one person eventually so you'll need to make a choice.

Agreed, the general goal of dating apps is to generate pairs. But in order to generate the desired pair, as many pairs must be "brute forced" as possible, as efficiently as possible, is my point.

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Sorry, but they're not extremely broken. I worked at OkCupid 8 years ago, saw the issues they faced then and have seen the evolution of the apps since then, and right now they really are as good as anyone's been able to come up with that attracts enough active users to generate promising dates. If there were a drastically better solution, then it would take over the market. The last major innovation was when Tinder i…

>is give you a pool of users far larger than you'd ever encounter in a single night out If the paradox of choice is actually true (as with anything in psychology, it needs further research to be sure), then this could be a major negative instead of a major positive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice

FWIW, Coffee Meets Bagel had the limited pool of users as a key feature of their app, and they eventually killed that.

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I thought about similar ideas, but I think it solves a problem (women want to get fewer messages) while ignoring the main goal (women want the messages to be from the guys they would like to meet). Once messages start costing a significant amount of money, only the truly desperate and/or predatory will be sending the messages.

A simple method of filtering that occurred to me a long time ago - Make the service completely free, but require a credit rating above a certain threshold. Possibly apply that to men but not women.

You assume that financially responsibility is the primary or strictly required characteristic women are looking for. I am a man, so I am not going to offer an opinion, but it seems like a very bold assumption.

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Here is my "crowd-based" dating app idea: let others do the matching -- i.e. decide which couples fit together....

I think image analysis would work. I've noticed that couples tend to have similar facial features and expressions.

Are you sure? Are there any studies on this? Is there a good "actual couples" dataset?
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