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SafeDate – check men's dating app profiles anonymously before your first date

2 points by Georgii007 1y ago

Georgii007 1y ago
I'm building SafeDate — an anonymous reputation tool for women to check men from dating apps like Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge before they meet them. Why? A close friend of mine had a terrifying experience with someone she met online — charming on the surface, but turned out to be married and emotionally abusive. When we talked about it, she said: "I just wish there was a way to check if someone else had a bad experience with him." And there wasn’t. No database. No quiet warnings. Just blind trust. So I started working on a system where women can: Search for a man’s profile by name, city, and age Read anonymous reviews from other women Set alerts for people they’re about to meet Share their experience privately and help others stay safe No public shaming. No full names. Just signals — from real women to real women — to help us date smarter and safer. The MVP is live (early access): https://safe-spotlight-network.vercel.app/ https://safe-spotlight-network.vercel.app/ If you're curious about online trust, anonymity, or building community-first products, I’d love your feedback — especially on: How to verify data without violating privacy Abuse prevention Generalizing this to other social contexts (roommates? job references?) Thanks for reading. Happy to answer any questions.
- easyThrowaway 1y ago
  As a man who's currently trying to escape a previous, truly abusive relationship, could you expand the verification to both genders? The only real support I had in this situation were only women who had experienced the same and could genuinely empathize with my condition. When trying to talk about this with other men I only experienced embarrassment and mockery on their side.
  - Georgii007 1y ago
    Thank you so much for your candid comment - and for sharing your personal experience. You are absolutely right: emotional and psychological abuse has no gender, and your case emphasizes how important it is to make space for support for men too. In the first phase, we are focusing on the female audience because of the specific threats that women face most often in online dating. But we will definitely add the ability to verify for all genders and sexes as well - including men caught in toxic relationships. It's an important and necessary part, and it's already in the plans for upcoming releases. Thanks again for your kindness and sensible remark
    - easyThrowaway 1y ago
      100% true - the sad fact was that I was able to find better help in women support communities was because they were more impacted by toxic, often violent relationships than men by several orders of magnitude. The risk of not having similar spaces for men is that they could probably end up the alt-right "man-o-sphere" communities in their stead.
- cherryteastain 1y ago
  Under EU/UK GDPR, data processing must have a lawful basis. You are obviously not getting anyone's consent to process their data - combination of name city and age is quite specific personal information. Also, even if processing people's name age and city without consent were lawful, per GDPR you must remove people's personal information from your app permanently upon request and probably ensure they are never added again. How do you propose your application will be compatible with GDPR, or will you ban users from adding European men?
  - Georgii007 1y ago
    Thank you so much for bringing this up — I really appreciate it, and you're absolutely right. Right now, the app is still in pre-MVP stage — no real user data is being collected or processed yet. But as I build this, GDPR compliance is something I’m absolutely planning for before any public launch, especially if the app is ever made available in the EU or UK. Here’s what I intend to do before launch: The app won’t allow full names or uniquely identifying info like phone numbers or social links. Reviews will be pseudonymous and moderated, with clear rules to avoid doxxing or identifiable posts. I plan to implement a “Right to Erasure” mechanism, so anyone mentioned can request complete removal — and I’m also exploring a way for individuals to opt out preemptively, so future mentions get blocked automatically. If proper GDPR compliance can’t be guaranteed by launch, I’ll restrict access from EU/UK regions until it’s fully ready. I want this to be a tool that helps people feel safer — not one that puts others at risk. Privacy and ethics are core to this, and I’m grateful for feedback like yours that keeps the vision grounded and responsible.
    - discordance 1y ago
      It's a nice idea but curious how will you get around the following: 1. If people with an unsafe reputation can opt themselves out, then won't women still be exposed to that unsafe match? 2. Breakups can be messy. How do you prevent false information being reported in? 3. If someone requests their information through GDPR and finds false reports on them, how will you handle the risk of defamation lawsuits?
fuzzfactor 1y ago
Looks like your initial text comment went dead (got killed) before it had a chance to raise the constructive comments there are now. Hope it was not a downvote-a-bot or autonomous flagman gone rougue ;) So right now on first visit or page refresh this whole page appears to be nothing at all, not even ultra-light dead text followed by nothing. This almost never happens. When it does, unfortunately in those cases the reason is that there are usually no constructive comments :( The user has to click to the right of your username to see the current number of comments under it or there is no other text at all on the page when it's like this. If someone else makes a top-level comment (like mine here) it should at least show up as something on the page, because it's not underneath your original top-level text. Maybe re-submit at another time, which some times or days are expected to be better for gaining generous input for projects compared to plain news. Probably also a good idea as progress is made to resubmit when you have a major milestone that you are proud of. Especially if it answers some questions even if it draws a few more. The pride in your work shows through and can make the interaction even more engaging than you already are. Doing what looks like to me like a respectable job on a more difficult project than most would undertake, this should not go un-noticed :)
- Georgii007 1y ago
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2 points by Georgii007 1y ago

I'm building SafeDate — an anonymous reputation tool for women to check men from dating apps like Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge before they meet them. Why? A close friend of mine had a terrifying experience with someone she met online — charming on the surface, but turned out to be married and emotionally abusive. When we talked about it, she said: "I just wish there was a way to check if someone else had a bad experience with him." And there wasn’t. No database. No quiet warnings. Just blind trust. So I started working on a system where women can: Search for a man’s profile by name, city, and age Read anonymous reviews from other women Set alerts for people they’re about to meet Share their experience privately and help others stay safe No public shaming. No full names. Just signals — from real women to real women — to help us date smarter and safer. The MVP is live (early access): https://safe-spotlight-network.vercel.app/ https://safe-spotlight-network.vercel.app/ If you're curious about online trust, anonymity, or building community-first products, I’d love your feedback — especially on: How to verify data without violating privacy Abuse prevention Generalizing this to other social contexts (roommates? job references?) Thanks for reading. Happy to answer any questions.

easyThrowaway 1y ago
As a man who's currently trying to escape a previous, truly abusive relationship, could you expand the verification to both genders? The only real support I had in this situation were only women who had experienced the same and could genuinely empathize with my condition. When trying to talk about this with other men I only experienced embarrassment and mockery on their side.
- Georgii007 1y ago
  Thank you so much for your candid comment - and for sharing your personal experience. You are absolutely right: emotional and psychological abuse has no gender, and your case emphasizes how important it is to make space for support for men too. In the first phase, we are focusing on the female audience because of the specific threats that women face most often in online dating. But we will definitely add the ability to verify for all genders and sexes as well - including men caught in toxic relationships. It's an important and necessary part, and it's already in the plans for upcoming releases. Thanks again for your kindness and sensible remark
  - easyThrowaway 1y ago
    100% true - the sad fact was that I was able to find better help in women support communities was because they were more impacted by toxic, often violent relationships than men by several orders of magnitude. The risk of not having similar spaces for men is that they could probably end up the alt-right "man-o-sphere" communities in their stead.
cherryteastain 1y ago
Under EU/UK GDPR, data processing must have a lawful basis. You are obviously not getting anyone's consent to process their data - combination of name city and age is quite specific personal information. Also, even if processing people's name age and city without consent were lawful, per GDPR you must remove people's personal information from your app permanently upon request and probably ensure they are never added again. How do you propose your application will be compatible with GDPR, or will you ban users from adding European men?
- Georgii007 1y ago
  Thank you so much for bringing this up — I really appreciate it, and you're absolutely right. Right now, the app is still in pre-MVP stage — no real user data is being collected or processed yet. But as I build this, GDPR compliance is something I’m absolutely planning for before any public launch, especially if the app is ever made available in the EU or UK. Here’s what I intend to do before launch: The app won’t allow full names or uniquely identifying info like phone numbers or social links. Reviews will be pseudonymous and moderated, with clear rules to avoid doxxing or identifiable posts. I plan to implement a “Right to Erasure” mechanism, so anyone mentioned can request complete removal — and I’m also exploring a way for individuals to opt out preemptively, so future mentions get blocked automatically. If proper GDPR compliance can’t be guaranteed by launch, I’ll restrict access from EU/UK regions until it’s fully ready. I want this to be a tool that helps people feel safer — not one that puts others at risk. Privacy and ethics are core to this, and I’m grateful for feedback like yours that keeps the vision grounded and responsible.
  - discordance 1y ago
    It's a nice idea but curious how will you get around the following: 1. If people with an unsafe reputation can opt themselves out, then won't women still be exposed to that unsafe match? 2. Breakups can be messy. How do you prevent false information being reported in? 3. If someone requests their information through GDPR and finds false reports on them, how will you handle the risk of defamation lawsuits?

fuzzfactor 1y ago

Looks like your initial text comment went dead (got killed) before it had a chance to raise the constructive comments there are now. Hope it was not a downvote-a-bot or autonomous flagman gone rougue ;) So right now on first visit or page refresh this whole page appears to be nothing at all, not even ultra-light dead text followed by nothing. This almost never happens. When it does, unfortunately in those cases the reason is that there are usually no constructive comments :( The user has to click to the right of your username to see the current number of comments under it or there is no other text at all on the page when it's like this. If someone else makes a top-level comment (like mine here) it should at least show up as something on the page, because it's not underneath your original top-level text. Maybe re-submit at another time, which some times or days are expected to be better for gaining generous input for projects compared to plain news. Probably also a good idea as progress is made to resubmit when you have a major milestone that you are proud of. Especially if it answers some questions even if it draws a few more. The pride in your work shows through and can make the interaction even more engaging than you already are. Doing what looks like to me like a respectable job on a more difficult project than most would undertake, this should not go un-noticed :)

Georgii007 1y ago
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