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Here is my "crowd-based" dating app idea: let others do the matching -- i.e. decide which couples fit together....
by dukoid 7y ago
Here is my "crowd-based" dating app idea: let others do the matching -- i.e. decide which couples fit together....
- Jedi72 7y agoThis is actually a pretty good idea. I think women would really go for it, since most of the 'matchmakers' are probably other women
- Jedi72 7y agolmao, so I just ran this idea by my girlfriend and she said "yeah its good but there would be trolls, I would just put hideous women with hot guys, and vice versa" - so, not so easy to succeed at (also, what a catch my girl is :P)
- capableweb 7y agoMake it based on reputation for the matchmakers as well. So if you purposefully do bad matches, you'll eventually not be able to do any more matchmaking.
- linuxftw 7y agoI really think you have something here.
- mam2 7y agoThat would go well in india ><
- imdsm 7y agoThat's a good idea but how would it work in practice? Would there be a two pass matching system? For example, let's say the friendly folks of this app match me with someone, what do I see? Do I now see a match, and my match sees me, and we can message? Or would I see my match and have the choice of declining? It's interesting, but it's a different model to the XAND model currently used by dating app matching.
- Tiktaalik 7y agoI had this idea though my variant was that all the info goes to like knitting circles of nice old grandmas and they do the matching.
- uniquelygeneric 7y agoThere is a beta product to do just that in NYC: https://getchorus.co/ https://getchorus.co/
- sjg007 7y agoI think image analysis would work. I've noticed that couples tend to have similar facial features and expressions.
- bananocurrency 7y agothis doesn't occur before they are a couple.
- dukoid 7y agoAre you sure? Are there any studies on this? Is there a good "actual couples" dataset?
- lumberjack 7y agoThis sounds engaging and fun. Think you're onto something.
- cousin_it 7y agoI love your idea, because human-based matchmaking has a good chance of equalizing the distribution instead of giving more attractive people massively more matches. There could even be some kind of incentive for matchmakers to create as many pairs as possible.
- auiya 7y agoEven if this does end in inevitable train wrecks, this concept would make an incredible TV show pitch.