> Tinder is really good at having a lot of users, and making money for itself. Very little of that success has to do with the quality or strategy of the product

> Tinder is really good at having a lot of users, and making money for itself. Very little of that success has to do with the quality or strategy of the product, beyond perhaps the implemention of dark patterns. I find this kind of thinking a lot which is "I hate the goals of this group of people, therefore everyone involved must be idiots" and I find it deplorable. Tinder is full of many smart people who have put out some thoughtful design decisions that are real innovations. In particular, there's an awful lot of ML that goes on behind the scenes that is showing you matches that are most likely to match with you. They're worth learning from, as is every other broadly successful business as the problems they're solving have applicability into domains extending outside of dating, regardless of what you think of the morality of their day to day operations.