Sick of current dating apps, what's your next idea?
Currently using Bumble, Tinder, Hinge. They all suck. Bad experience. Comment below your dating app idea. If good I'll make one and we could partner. Goal is to find a niche, expand to get users quick and get acquired by match.com. TC 500k, 10x eng could code anything (mobile, frontend, backend, AI) #dating #bayarea #seattle #newyork #nyc #marriage #facebook #meta #amazon #apple #microsoft
AI in dating, gf on cloud. Imagine you can just be yourself, no need to change for other person. A virtual gf\bf who can talk & reply to you. Can give you better suggestion than most people. Plus you can video call and give custom commands like "talk sexy to me"
I have an innovative dating idea: What about talking to people in real life instead of wasting time with dating apps?
I agree with this even though I've never cold approached every woman in my life. As far as my experience (in the Bay), if you didn't meet anyone through school or work already, you're most likely on apps (both genders)
You don't have to cold approach, find a hobby where you can naturally meet people, if you click with someone make an effort into getting to know that person etc... Dating apps are just horrible, it gives you the false sense of making progress and you might feel like you do something to find a partner but in most cases it's just a waste of time.
The issue with dating apps is they kind of mess with everyone's odds. women get swamped with too many "choices," which aren't really choices since most of those matches won't go anywhere. Guys, unless they're in the top 20%, hardly get any action. This ends up working out pretty well for that top 20% of dudes who aren't looking to settle down, leaving everyone else in a weird spot. Here's my idea: 1. Give Permission: Users agree to let the app check if they've got other dating apps on their phone. 2. Flag 'Em: If the app finds you're playing the field on multiple apps, it slaps a little flag on your profile. It's like saying, "Hey, this person's looking around elsewhere." 3. One at a Time: You get to match with just one person and need to cut them loose if you want to see who else is out there. Keeps things simpler and more genuine. Basically, it's about making dating apps less about swiping on a hundred people and more about actually connecting with someone.
The amount of ghosting this will create 🤯
I quit the apps. Waste of time honestly and I’m a girl. There’s literally no way to tell anything that matters about a person from the apps and I think it’s a waste of time to go on dates with such little knowledge. I always had more luck in person and 9/10 crushes were on guys who I’m sure I wasn’t going to notice when I just get pictures and less than 100 words to go off of. Versus never really connecting with anyone I met online
You've named the big dating apps mostly owned by Match. There are a TON of dating apps not owned by Match that will probably never even get seen by match. Unless you amass millions of users in a few months, there is no point.
If you are looking for a cofounder HMU, I have few ideas.
Dating should be difficult. It shouldn't be as easy as getting on an app and swiping right and left. This "easiness" attracts people who aren't ready for a relationship. Make an app/ organization that requires one to pay money, get a background check done, submit medical records and criminal history, and attend mandatory relationship counseling both once you sign up and once you go exclusive the latter with the person of your interest (maybe refund the last 6 months of payments if you do the latter). The quality of people will be better. Also you won't find douches who are already in a relationship.
No but I don’t think apps let us connect with people who may be most optimal for us. I’m not talking about hottest or most successful. I’m talking about how for a lot of people they can develop crushes on people they meet IRL who maybe wouldn’t have seen or would have passed on their profiles. Dating apps cannot and do not mimic what it’s like meeting someone IRL - and they can’t easily connect you to the right people. I have no issue with the fact that dating and relationships aren’t easy. But I don’t think dating apps connect us more easily to the right people mostly because I think most people are a little dumb about what they want AND even if they’re not there’s no way to tell based on profiles if they’re what you’re looking for.
That's because people aren't self aware and most haven't been to therapy. If you are self aware you can select for what is good for you and that doesn't have to be most good looking or most successful. Okcupid used to do something like that. You answer some 2000+ questions and they tell you how compatible you are to other people you might be interested in. So you can give up on the education, income and other superficial things and actually look at who matches you in terms of compatibility. The more thought and honesty you put into answering questions you can find someone that really matters. My ex fiance and I were together for 7 years and met this way. This was 15 years ago or so before the swipe culture though.
OP, are you trying to find a girlfriend or a cofounder for a dating app startup, or in some unlikely universe, both?