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>Thats as far as I got... thoughts? I worked for $large_dating_site years ago at their peak. We spent countless days weeks and months in meetings, spitballing

>Thats as far as I got... thoughts? I worked for $large_dating_site years ago at their peak. We spent countless days weeks and months in meetings, spitballing all kinds of ideas, building prototypes, and coming up with "innovative" ideas for new dating app products. In the end it turns out the only thing users really want is a picture, a name, and a paragraph. Everything beyond that is in the realm of direct human interaction. Any kind of artificial friction you create between people that is any more complex than that just ends up being annoying and driving away casual users. The problem with dating apps is not a technological one. It all comes down to who's using them. Wherever the women go, the men will follow. This is why Bumble has been so successful. Catering to women is the only way to have a successful dating app. At any given time, there's a curve of adoption for dating apps, and they all go through the same lifecycle. Cool/new/hip/cheap/free with a 50/50 young male/female ratio and no bots -> established/revenue generating/mature users with fewer women than men -> bot ridden scam with no real women. At any given time there are three major apps that fill these roles. Right now it's Hinge -> Bumble -> Tinder.

medium_burrito 6y ago
My wife says I am almost supernaturally attuned to what I term the "sausage-party coefficient". In any public space, I can give a very accurate ratio of the number of men and women, and it's remarkable how as soon as there are sufficient women, all these dudes just appear and all the women leave, like gazelles in the presence of hungry lions. In any bar (when they open again), sit down with your double scotch and count that ratio every few minutes. It's like a law of nature.
toyg 6y ago
It sounds like one could try to solve that mismatch by aggressively tracking usage and queueing up registrations, so that the ratio of actually-active users is always close to 50-50. It means leaving money on the table though.

medium_burrito 6y ago

My wife says I am almost supernaturally attuned to what I term the "sausage-party coefficient". In any public space, I can give a very accurate ratio of the number of men and women, and it's remarkable how as soon as there are sufficient women, all these dudes just appear and all the women leave, like gazelles in the presence of hungry lions. In any bar (when they open again), sit down with your double scotch and count that ratio every few minutes. It's like a law of nature.

toyg 6y ago

It sounds like one could try to solve that mismatch by aggressively tracking usage and queueing up registrations, so that the ratio of actually-active users is always close to 50-50. It means leaving money on the table though.