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Yeah, imagine a headline "YC-backed Splinder is dating app only for white people". I bet people would not be that relaxed. #justsayin'
by romanovcode 9y ago
Yeah, imagine a headline "YC-backed Splinder is dating app only for white people".
I bet people would not be that relaxed. #justsayin'
- senz0 9y agoIslam isn't a race. Anyone under the sun could become a Muslim and use this service. People can't however change their race (who would've thought?). I've never been so perplexed by a comment on this site in my life.
- dragonwriter 9y agoI suspect the most common comment on HN would be asking what Splinder plans to offer to differentiate itself from Where White People Meet, the startup in that space that got media attention last year.
- whipoodle 9y agoThat's already how many users of existing dating sites actually use them in reality. So, the existence of such a thing would not surprise me, nor would YC investing in it... (they're capitalists, not superheroes)
- colmvp 9y agoSeriously. I live in a city that is comprised of 50% white people. The vast majority of women's profiles exclusively say they want a white guy (source: me using Match). And when I use other apps, I get recommended matches (source: me using CoffeeMeetsBagel), they only recommend me women of my own ethnicity despite me never had explicitly suggested I cared about ethnicity. FWIW, I'm not suggesting people shouldn't have preferences, but for a lot of apps and depending on your gender/ethnic composition, the inclusion of other ethnicities doesn't really mean you are exactly on a level playing field.
- whipoodle 9y agoOKCupid's blog has a series of interesting (and depressing) write-ups about this.