This is what happens when you take an engineer mindset to complex social interactions and try to see if you can engineer your way out of it. For the ML Engineer

This is what happens when you take an engineer mindset to complex social interactions and try to see if you can engineer your way out of it. For the ML Engineer out there, this is like trying symbolic AI for natural language understanding, it will keep creating weird edge cases that humans will exploit and make the dating app useless. >Men pay for access. This is just a bad idea, men are probably fine with it but no woman wants a man that does this when there are men that don’t need to pay for a dating app. Being forced to pay, indicates only 2 options, either 1 you’re a “loser” not desirable by other females or 2 you’re a “player” who just wants to get on with as many girls as possible. This stigma can reduce if there are say >30-40% of single males on the app, but when starting out it can be a deal breaker for the women on the app. > Compatibility Questions The problem is the questions that really matter, most people do not want to share (even after entering a relationship, people don’t share this, much less an online form). George gives an example of this himself, in the body count section, most women won’t be comfortable sharing this. Other examples of potential dealbreakers, how much a man earns? How much do you value your job? How much do you value your family? How do you deal with stress? How responsible are you? Etc etc These are not things people share, some are even hard to articulate but all are important in some form to determine compatibility. People also rarely know what questions actually matter in a relationship, the average guy/girl will focus on stuff that does not matter at all in the long term. >Design app like CRM Maybe, some of these up changes are good. They don’t seem very consequential as they are mostly UX changes, some of the review ideas seem bad and will be gamed. Overall, the only good dating system is a social club / society that brings like minded, compatible people together, preferably has a few people with excellent intuition that actively (but secretly) play the role of a match-maker and facilitates natural social interactions among its members. Something churches used to do in the past to reasonable success. Apparently people are trying to do that with running clubs in the bay. But it’s undeniable that these ancient social structures are disappearing without a better replacement and we’re all the less off for it.