Greensboro Man Creates Dating App Where He's the Only Guy Allowed

Re:Greensboro Man Creates Dating App Where He's the Only Guy... by realbarack on Monday November 25, 2019 @10:54AM (#21629208)

One idea I had was to basically open up analytics to the end-user. Let a user see their ELO rating + stats for different sub-groups and run A/B tests with different photos, messages, and profile text. Basically just product analytics software, except the product you're trying to sell is yourself. I'm not on the apps these days so maybe this exists already.

Swipe apps more-or-less turned dating into a game—you could provide the tooling to become a better player.

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Re:Greensboro Man Creates Dating App Where He's the Only Guy... by ctack on Monday November 25, 2019 @12:36PM (#21630573)

While you're at it, you could provide power inbox tools to help recipients weed out potentially spammers/ dangerous/ flaky/ fake/ disturbed users using auto-reply chains(randomly staggered in time of course) that they could come back to later and see if the person replied sensibly to their messages. The more popular the person, the more messages they would be encouraged to create.

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Re:Greensboro Man Creates Dating App Where He's the Only Guy... by realbarack on Monday November 25, 2019 @12:59PM (#21630865)

Yeah, totally. I think this was basically the problem Bumble tried solving with their "women message first" restriction, but I bet you could come up with better/smarter tooling than that blunt heuristic.

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