There are plenty of apps for Christians, as for all other kinds of specialized markets.

When you say 'white Christians' you're changing the subject in a particularly trollish way. Please don't comment like that here.

There's no such thing as 'mixed' marriages for Muslims. Muslim women may only marry Muslim men, and Muslim men must raise their children as Muslims.

Also, devout Christians do the same. Right or wrong, until the whole world is athiest, this won't change.

This is basically a no-true-Scotsman -- "devout" has no objective definition, and there are unquestionably people who identify as Muslim who are married to non-Muslims.

It's not though. Identifying as something doesn't mean others recognize you as being part of that group (ex. Ahmadiyya).

Also, secular Muslims probably aren't the target demographic of this app, just like secular Christians likely won't be on Christian Mingle...

Should "Farmers only" dating apps also be banned?

What about features in an app that allow users to filter profiles of potential mates by their religion? Or age? Or gender?

I think I understand where you're coming from - that the app contributes to cultural divisiveness - but I don't think I like the implication, which to me is "one is not allowed to seek ways of finding others of a similar culture." If you don't allow projects to be created that allow people to find those similar to them, you are taking away their ability to do so.

> that allow people to find those similar to them, you are taking away their ability to do so

This is what I want. That people find their SO on a natural and unexpected way and not by sticking to their roots and setting the right filter in their dating app. Do you think Americans would be Americans today if hundreds years ago all the immigrants stayed with their groups? And again I use religion and ethnicity here equally since most of these platform do this implicitely too.

A society can only evolve and develop in a healthy way if groups mix. There are already so many barriers which hinder us to interact with others. Just say no to rules from the last century.

1. What are the acceptable "natural and unexpected ways" for people to meet their life partners?

2. Do you genuinely believe that your opinion on the matter means that dating apps (all of them) should not exist? (note that you would have to say this as an outlier - clearly, people love dating apps, and clearly, people have found their life partners through them)

Addressing 1, because it illustrates to me what I believe is the largest hole in your argument. You claim "hundreds of years ago all immigrants DID NOT stay within their groups," and that platforms implicitly put people into groups (implication: people wouldn't do this if it were not for platforms).

I am somewhat surprised that you believe this - it's as if you've never been to a China Town or Harlem, or lived abroad in a country where nobody speaks your native language. Like people mingle with like people, and immigrant populations meld slowly, very rarely losing ALL of their identity. All of known society operates on this history, and obviously our society isn't ideal but it's certainly functional having existed on this paradigm. And, as time marches forward, so do the cultures merge further. Why try to speed up the process unnecessarily?

That people mix with those similar to them now being established (feel free to challenge me on it! I'm just saying, that's my premise here), it would only be "natural" for them to do so with or without an app to aid them. They clearly want to do it, so of course people will capitalize on that desire with businesses. YCombinator, I believe, operates as an investor, and an investor will want to fund businesses that operate on successful business models... I mean really, I'm having a hard time seeing how you can challenge this?

Anyway, you talk about barriers, but really I think you're the one arguing for barriers, by setting rules around how people are allowed to interact. I like riding motorcycles, but in your world I would not be allowed to specifically seek out other motorcycle riders, because somehow it is healthier for society that the percentage of my friends that are motorcyclists is perfectly equal to the percentage of society that are motorcyclists. The whole concept of shared hobbies falls apart under this model, for no reason. Because of apps I can seek out new hobbies and people that do things differently than me - I don't want to be forced to do that, I can do it on my own time!

If you made an app just for white Christians, as a non-white non-Christian I'd be fine with it because it saves me from having to a) look at their profile, b) potentially get matched up with them, and c) waste my time. Chances are they want someone who shares a lot of their same beliefs and more importantly want someone faithful to God.

Like it or not, people have preferences.

A few year ago, I joined Match. You know how many of my 'matches' explicitly stated they don't want to date my ethnicity and only want to date their own? A lot.

Then I joined CoffeeMeetsBagel. And while I never explicitly mentioned a preferred ethnicity, they kept matching me up with women of my own ethnicity despite the fact that 50% of the people in my city are not my ethnicity. Again, how much of that is women explicitly stating they don't want to be matched up to men of my ethnicity?

My point is that even though some apps have a generalized population, the idea of intermingling is a minority. In the U.S. I think interracial marriages are like 10% of all total marriages. And religion has way more differences in terms of life style and philosophy than ethnicity.

Is it different from people expressing gender preferences? What about age? What about hobbies?

Who are you to say that? People have preferences, get over it.

> Why do you want to keep people from spedific religions stick together? It's for a society always better if groups mix instead of this ghettoization. I know that still many try to stay with their folks which is ok but why to enforce it?

They are not forcing anyone to do anything. They are giving people an option.

If a Muslim wants to marry another Muslim, and this helps them accomplish that better than Tinder or any other apps, that's great. Why is that such a problem for you? Why do you even suppose it's any of your business?

Full disclosure: I am agnostic.

As I wrote: It strengthens and enforces typical stereotypes which don't make life easier for the target demo.

If anything that "strengthens and enforces typical stereotypes" is a bad thing, I should've been banned from attending mathlete competitions or LAN parties. Those definitely reinforced stereotypes and made some aspects of my life harder. :]

It's a free world dude.

That's fine, my argument applies to YC and other investors in addition to the founders.

this argument might hold water if there weren't a preexisting plethora of other dating sites/apps that cater to all kinds of other groups.

this app/site is a safe ("halal") place for a _self-selecting_ group to congregate. how can you possibly have an issue with that? the people who explicitly want to find a muslim spouse can use this site, the people who don't particularly care if their spouse is muslim will use some other one.

if you want to build that site (for people specifically trying to find a spouse instead of trying to have fun, but not explicitly for muslims), just do it and quit shitting on this site.

If you are choosing a life partner it makes sense to filter for religious beliefs because that is something you need to agree on to raise children together

There are lots of dating services for Christians only, that's not new.

Just because people are super religious doesn't mean they are resistant to all types of change. Not sure what you mean by "super religious" but I know a lot of people personally who have found this app useful who are practicing Islam in a traditional way