Snapchat users also skew somewhat female, but they are also quite young compared to other sites, and "youth" may lead to it being highly priced.

[Being an old dude, I never use either of these]

I don’t know if anyone has run the numbers, but I’d expect ladies to more valuable on all kinds of KPIs of a good customer.

My feel is that men gravitate towards large purchases around a hobby or two (bikes, outdoors, cars, computers, video games). While women are more likely to spend in smaller amounts across a wide variety of categories.

I also may just be full of shit.

[0] https://health.oliverwyman.com/2019/01/women-in-healthcare-m...

https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/9n31xf/introduci...

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/a1jokv/beck...

Mugatu off of finance twitter calls this "white chick beta":

https://twitter.com/SuperMugatu/status/1102678639366287361

there aren't a lot of good traders here, but its an engineering blog

I actually use Pinterest. It's just how often does the opportunity to mention Pinterest comes up?

My pins are fashion (boots, athletic wares, etc..) and haircuts.

This is why it's not particularly loved on HN, and this is also why the tech stack is nothing special (it's not bad, it's just not special).

What is special is the unbelievable product market fit. Engaged Pinterest users 1) spend a shitton of time on the app (hours a day) and 2) interact very positively with ads (this is VERY purposeful and part of the product first company style).

I think their recipe makes for a great company, but it's not the most fun for engineers to work on (those things don't always if ever correlate).

Even their github https://github.com/pinterest, elixir isn't even in their top programming languages.

It could be the secret sauce language kind of deal. Or they've moved away from it.

It is a pleasure to see you outside of elixirforum.

AFAIK, Pinterest rewrote the logic of their notification system into Elixir and also used it to rebuild their rate limiter.

This is the main piece I've seen open sourced: https://github.com/pinterest/elixir-thrift

And I don't just mean brides and mothers, but everyone involved with the wedding/baby shower/birthday party planning process: bridesmaids, mothers of the bride, future mother-in-laws, aunts, grandmothers, and godmothers. And of course everyone who's paid to be involved with those events uses pinterest as well: photographers, venues, florists, event planners, designers, etc.

My gripe with pinterest (that none of my friends seem to be bothered by) is how difficult it is to source the information that's posted. Not only does it create an environment for misinformation to spread but it makes it really hard to determine whether you're purchasing from the person responsible for the beautiful photo or if you're being led to some sort of alibaba drop-shipping site.

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=https:%2F%2Fmedium.com%2F@Pint...

There's a recommendation system that I think is pretty good and people can collect other people pictures/pins in their own collections.

I don't think there is any emphasis on influencers or at least from my casual usage I don't see any. I think this is in part because people can collect other people's pins/pictures into their own collection.