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Show HN: Dating app that rewards you for doing personal development

2 points by nickhatter 5y ago

nickhatter 5y ago
Hi all, FDBK rewards users with virtual currency for giving others feedback on their dating profiles, as well as for taking micro personal development courses. Currency can then be spent on premium features in the app. I came up with the idea after being fed up of not knowing why I wasn't not getting matches on dating apps, and seeing too many shallow profiles. We're now ready for beta testers as part of a private beta. We've developed it using Angular + Ionic + Capacitor + Firebase - so it's native, and will be super-scalable (NoSQL ftw!) We have 125 beta signups - 66% of them women! We desperately need more guys, or the beta feedback data will be very female-biased. Ideally, would like 200 beta testers for statistically significant results. If you want access to the beta, please let us know via the form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfOmpidvQaFa_-Q-giYmXhd5Roz5SNYrEm_y4ASj-eIB6y_IQ/viewform?usp=sf_link https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfOmpidvQaFa_-Q-giY... Note we can't show it publicly yet as we are filing various patents and registered designs for various features. We'd love to have feedback from HN prior to putting on app stores. The only way you can test on iOS is via TestFlight, so we need an email address for iPhone users anyway - we don't have a web app version unfortunately. Cheers, Nick Hatter
- dschuessler 5y ago
  > FDBK rewards users with virtual currency for giving others feedback on their dating profiles, as well as for taking micro personal development courses. That information should be high upfront on the page itself albeit more in an ELI5 way. From the first look I have no idea what makes your app special. Also calling it "groundbreaking" without any elaboration on how it works makes it look kind of shady too. Good luck!
  - nickhatter 5y ago
    Noted! Thanks for the feedback (no pun intended). I have put it on the beta access form. (And updated the post above)

2 points by nickhatter 5y ago

Hi all, FDBK rewards users with virtual currency for giving others feedback on their dating profiles, as well as for taking micro personal development courses. Currency can then be spent on premium features in the app. I came up with the idea after being fed up of not knowing why I wasn't not getting matches on dating apps, and seeing too many shallow profiles. We're now ready for beta testers as part of a private beta. We've developed it using Angular + Ionic + Capacitor + Firebase - so it's native, and will be super-scalable (NoSQL ftw!) We have 125 beta signups - 66% of them women! We desperately need more guys, or the beta feedback data will be very female-biased. Ideally, would like 200 beta testers for statistically significant results. If you want access to the beta, please let us know via the form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfOmpidvQaFa_-Q-giYmXhd5Roz5SNYrEm_y4ASj-eIB6y_IQ/viewform?usp=sf_link https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfOmpidvQaFa_-Q-giY... Note we can't show it publicly yet as we are filing various patents and registered designs for various features. We'd love to have feedback from HN prior to putting on app stores. The only way you can test on iOS is via TestFlight, so we need an email address for iPhone users anyway - we don't have a web app version unfortunately. Cheers, Nick Hatter

dschuessler 5y ago
> FDBK rewards users with virtual currency for giving others feedback on their dating profiles, as well as for taking micro personal development courses. That information should be high upfront on the page itself albeit more in an ELI5 way. From the first look I have no idea what makes your app special. Also calling it "groundbreaking" without any elaboration on how it works makes it look kind of shady too. Good luck!
- nickhatter 5y ago
  Noted! Thanks for the feedback (no pun intended). I have put it on the beta access form. (And updated the post above)