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As somebody who flirted around with Tinder for a little while (ha ha), I think this is a pretty good idea. But at the same time, I think I'd prefer to be able t
by jplahn 11y ago
As somebody who flirted around with Tinder for a little while (ha ha), I think this is a pretty good idea. But at the same time, I think I'd prefer to be able to select which Instagram photos I would like to remain hidden, in case they're of a more personal nature. But beyond this, I can't help but feel the entire Tinder experience is slowly deteriorating. The beautiful simplicity of what it used to be is slowly starting to be replaced, which I suppose is to be expected, but disappointing nonetheless. I can't help but feel they'll quickly monetize the amount of swipes you get, so they can quickly squeeze users down to a couple a day.
As sort of a mini experiment, I downloaded some of the other apps out there that are in the same sphere and I've found Hinge to be particularly interesting (assuming you're in a large city). I'm kind of fascinated by all of these relationship apps and I'd love to see data on which are most effective (not for personal gain, mind you).
- nothrabannosir 11y agoThey're already monetizing the amount of swipes you get: http://uk.businessinsider.com/tinder-plus-being-tested-in-europe-2015-2?r=US http://uk.businessinsider.com/tinder-plus-being-tested-in-eu... Dropped dead instantly among everyone I know.
- skizm 11y agoI actually think limiting swipes is a good thing. It means people can't just like everyone and then choose the matches that come in later.
- jplahn 11y agoVery true. If people I know are any indication, when we'd get to a new city (for a wedding, for example), they'd furiously swipe every person that showed up. All that does it water down the entire app and defeat the purpose of the whole thing. Last thing anyone wants to hear is "Oh, I didn't mean to swipe right..". It's a question I've been interested in about how you can improve response rates and whether you should give people more swipes based on the amount of actual interaction they have with other people, which may indicate they're using it properly.
- jxcl 11y agoAre there any proximity-based apps that don't require Facebook? I'm interested in trying something like this out, but I don't use Facebook for various reasons.
- mkr-hn 11y agoI think Grindr and Hornet let you make accounts without Facebook.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoWant to replace Tinder? I'm not a mobile app guy, but I do big infrastructure and know enough Python to be dangerous. I'm not saying "How hard can it be?" I know that road to hell. But seriously, storing a couple million photos? Storing profile data? There is literally zero barrier to entry. S3, Elastic Search, EC2, and a bit of ELBs or Haproxy for that HA magic. Let's call it "Blaze". (Seriously, check my profile for contact info)
- fleitz 11y agoYup, I worked at a dating company for a while, the scale is trivial, couple huge DB servers and half a dozen webservers.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoI had read a devops job posting for fetlife.com (think kink okcupid/match.com site) a few weeks ago, and you're right! The resources are incredibly minimal to run sites like this, even at scale.
- michaelchisari 11y agoIt's not the tech part that's the barrier to entry, it's the social aspect. Figuring out a new way to represent social relationships that attracts users.
- untog 11y agoThe tech portion of a dating app is trivial. The marketing and business side? Less so. Even UI - Tinder wouldn't be Tinder without swiping.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoYou can't patent swiping, and now that Tinder is charging there exists a vacuum in the market for someone who doesn't charge (or monetizes differently).
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