What really happens inside a dating app

Post by jamesbond009 » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 10:33 PM UTC

Post by BeFlatXIII » Sat, Feb 15, 2025, 6:12 PM UTC

naijaboiler wrote: post #178

AnthonyMouse wrote: post #91

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It does imply a potentially interesting algorithm though: Show all of the women to all of the men. From this you get numbers on which women are the most highly rated. Then, show women a) men who are at the same percentile as them or below and b) the smaller number of men who have already liked them. The result is that 60th percentile women end up primarily liking 60th percentile men and so on, because they're the hig…

won't work. many women won't end up liking anyone. And like he said, the most expensive thing to acquire is women. You have to be able to give women their "dream man" to retain them. And in apps, much much much more so than in real life, they will mostly all choose the same dream man. showing a 60 percentile woman, men that around 60 percentile is a sure way to drive women away from your app