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I have been trying to solve this for a while, and been working on a dating app in which you can not meet any people. It all started with the sudden (obvious, I
by oDot 4y ago
I have been trying to solve this for a while, and been working on a dating app in which you can not meet any people.
It all started with the sudden (obvious, I may be slow) realization that dating apps only have "dating app people" (DAP) on them. This leads to an inherent flaw in dating apps. If all or most of the ideal matches of a person that's on an app are _not_ DAP, well, apps will always be detrimental to that person. Not only will it be impossible to find true matches there, the matches that are found are just a waste of time.
This main problem is accompanied by many other problems -- lack of chemistry judgement, profiles doctored to change the person (naturally), and more.
The solution? A magic wand that when you wave it you start randomly bumping into your ideal matches wherever you go. Barring that solution, we must rely on "selective friends transitivity".
Friends transitivity means that if A and B are friends, and B and C are friends, A and C are also friends. This is surely false. However, I bet it is selectively true. If A and B are friends, both A and B know which of their other friends will be liked by the other.
Which brings us to Eventful. Eventful is an app that allows people to create and be invited to real life events. It then facilitates sharing invites to that events in a way that promotes selective transitivity, and not only in dating. This is true to any kind of gathering where meeting new people is desirable, say weekly basketball neighborhood games. Those people you meet will surely connect you will more people outside of Eventful.
A host can decide "how deep" of an invitee can still invite, all while Eventful makes sure not to overflow the venue, and to let an automatic waitlist know when a place had opened up. This kind of event accounting is impossible to do by hand with something like Instagram or WhatsApp.
I wrote more than I planned, hopefully it was interesting to read.
https://Eventful.is https://Eventful.is
* Released just a couple days ago, very usable but a little buggy. Update comes up these next couple of days that solves most of them!
- comprev 4y agoThis follows the logic that people are an average of all their friends. Person A and Person C have the mutual interest of Person B, so there's a good chance there would be overlap in a Venn diagram.
- throwaway290 4y ago> dating apps only have "dating app people" (DAP) on them. This leads to an inherent flaw in dating apps. If all or most of the ideal matches of a person that's on an app are _not_ DAP, well, apps will always be detrimental to that person Spot on. This self-selection puts me off those.