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My gripe with titles like this is that problems as a class are much bigger than technical problems. For example: Many people on HN seems to have dating proble
by mettamage 2y ago
My gripe with titles like this is that problems as a class are much bigger than technical problems.
For example:
Many people on HN seems to have dating problems. Whenever an article on dating is in the front page, I see those issues in the comments. In most cases, that class of problem requires people to work on themselves. Online dating for sure as hell isn’t solving it.
Some of my comments outlined how to solve dating problems for cis heterosexual males. Most of the partial solutions are non-technical in nature. Some are technical if it concerns online dating.
- consf 2y ago[dead]
- jansan 2y agoOnline dating could probably help a lot if it was optimized for actually providing a solution instead of maximizing profit. If these services actually manage to find a matching long-term partner, they will lose two customers.
- mettamage 2y agoThere’s a Dutch app that’s pretty good (it’s called Breeze). Many tech orgs do find a good solution but they are usually not blitz scaling
- lesuorac 2y agoPerhaps you'd lose two customers but uh people are a renewable resource. If your service actually worked well you'd have an endless supply of future customers as your previous customers reproduced. But its definitely a problem that actually doing matchmaking isn't as profitable as a chat app. Well for a publicly traded company in today's environment of short-term thinking; perhaps if it was a dividend company it would be feasible.
- HPsquared 2y agoDating falls under the sales and marketing department, which a lot of technical people neglect to their detriment.