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Re: Show HN: Dating Site Without Pictures

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Post by klyrs »

DarthGhandi wrote: post #35
progval wrote: post #30

Although I'm personally done with dating sites, I'm glad to see someone else had this idea, and actually made it. But please consider not making all data go through Google (analytics (which can be blocked) and firestore (which is required)) and allow logins without Google or Facebook accounts. Sharing browsing data of a dating site with a third-party should be considered a privacy issue.

I'm pretty keen to date someone who blocks Google analytics by default. How does one find such a person? Is there room for a dating site that shadowbans anyone who willfully accepts the current state of surveillance capitalism?

Soooo... HN dating? Similar to "who's hiring" but for singles.

Re: Show HN: Dating Site Without Pictures

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Post by klyrs »

duelingjello wrote: post #54

I’ve thought about this a lot. I think it’s important that dating people match based on relative attractiveness, health, energy level, tidiness, age/maturity, mental attitude, goals and standard of living. Also, dating sites should facilitate meeting, not pen-pals or “virtual” phony “relationships.” Perhaps a more palatable way to approach this is to legitimately screen/curate each applicant and rate them honestly so…

> Also, you don’t what a Philip DeFranco moment of moving to NYC for a would-be significant other that is actually a 16-year-old con artist in Idaho.

Users of this site aren't forbidden from exchanging contact info and swapping photos / video chat. That scenario seems far fetched.

Re: Show HN: Dating Site Without Pictures

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Post by toohotatopic »

tootahe45 wrote: post #150
ithkuil wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"married with children" doesn't necessarily imply that at least two children come from that marriage; e.g. the spouse could have had a child from a previous marriage

That is called paying to raise somebody else's children.

That's called operating an additional processing unit. You use AWS to quickly bootstrap a company, why not bootstrap a family? After all, genes can change a bit of the temperament of a person, but in the end, it's all about education and training. The ultimate father is the one who has risen the child, not the one who made the hardware. (Or Luke would have chosen the dark side.)

Re: Show HN: Dating Site Without Pictures

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Post by davexxx »

firefoxd wrote: post #142

Close to two years ago, there was a show HN for a dating app posted here. I signed up, found a couple bugs, reported them, then deleted the app. Couple month later, I got an email saying that I got a match. Downloaded it again, had a very nice conversation, but I was not attracted. I went to the settings, selected 25 miles radius and Black only. The next match I got was not Black, and over a thousand miles. Now we ar…

I'm somehow building that dating app you won't build. See you on HN in 3-4 months ;)

Re: Show HN: Dating Site Without Pictures

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Post by bartread »

dinkleberg wrote: post #32

I applaud the attempt to innovate in the dating world which tends to be solely focused on looks. But sexual attraction is an important part of relationships, so going in blind is inherently risky (from a time utilization perspective). With old school blind dates, your date is friend/family selected so some level of filtering is already done for you. I guess a good portion of dates are disappointing anyway and there a…

> With old school blind dates, your date is friend/family selected so some level of filtering is already done for you.

Ha! That's true, but it can also be a really odd experience. E.g., I've found myself questioning how well the organisers really know me.

Re: Show HN: Dating Site Without Pictures

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Post by Slashbot »

I don't care to read about a womens past relationship history...

It just means she completely sucks at choosing the right guy or even being a good women, in the past a father/family elders chose who her husband would be for a very good reason. Women completely suck at making good choices. It's very rare nowadays to see highschool sweet heart relationship with family and children.. very rare, because careerism and higher education is pushed on women... so they end up complete fuckups, avoiding doing one thing they should be doing and that is having children and looking after a family with a husband providing.

The true history of marriage is that a women is married to the first man she fucks./ period. Only her real father.. not a priest can divorce her of past sexual relationships.

Therefore in todays world 99% women are going into new relationships with other men, when she is still married to the first man she had sex with... over 1000 years of lies from the church.

It's a good thing women age real quick past there late 20's. The dating sites that try to restrict age ranges are the worst/evil.

Of course if you are a man without much or no relationship history that wasn't just highscool girlfriends then its like there is something wrong with you. INcel men are growing in number in todays world, is nothing good about that.

Great if you want to write about all your past failed waste of time relationships though.

Re: Show HN: Dating Site Without Pictures

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Post by UweSchmidt »

firefoxd wrote: post #142

Close to two years ago, there was a show HN for a dating app posted here. I signed up, found a couple bugs, reported them, then deleted the app. Couple month later, I got an email saying that I got a match. Downloaded it again, had a very nice conversation, but I was not attracted. I went to the settings, selected 25 miles radius and Black only. The next match I got was not Black, and over a thousand miles. Now we ar…

I propose a paid service with a human operator who suggests matches and sends people on appropriate dates. You get one match, go on the date and report back how it went, and get a new match based on both of your feedback. "That person was a little crazy" -> get someone more boring next time.

The date you get sent on is engaging and topical: a dance class or a tennis class or a guided tour in a museum, something that's engaging in the right way and avoids restaurant first date awkwardness.

Re: Show HN: Dating Site Without Pictures

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Post by nr152522 »

dinkleberg wrote: post #32

I applaud the attempt to innovate in the dating world which tends to be solely focused on looks. But sexual attraction is an important part of relationships, so going in blind is inherently risky (from a time utilization perspective). With old school blind dates, your date is friend/family selected so some level of filtering is already done for you. I guess a good portion of dates are disappointing anyway and there a…

I had been building a dating app that matches based on transactional data. It looks for similarity metrics which act as a filter. It then presents you with picture profiles so you can search for people you like the look of. As you say, sexual attraction is important.

I’ve had to put it on hold because investor sentiment in the U.K. has been negative with the belief that no one will link their bank accounts to find a match (even if we’re transparent, regulated, etc).

Re: Show HN: Dating Site Without Pictures

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Post by mikece »

firefoxd wrote: post #142

Close to two years ago, there was a show HN for a dating app posted here. I signed up, found a couple bugs, reported them, then deleted the app. Couple month later, I got an email saying that I got a match. Downloaded it again, had a very nice conversation, but I was not attracted. I went to the settings, selected 25 miles radius and Black only. The next match I got was not Black, and over a thousand miles. Now we ar…

You just described the lead character in the movie Hitch: help individuals to relate to other individual people.

Re: Show HN: Dating Site Without Pictures

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Post by anonu »

I've had this exact same idea. The difference was there was a bit more tech or "AI" behind the scenes. You would still upload a picture of yourself. You would also build a model of what features you were looking for ... Maybe like choosing who you like better between two different pictures.

Then your matches would be made if both sides had high "similarity scores" for each other's pictures.

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