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Re:Show HN: Dating Site Without Pictures by anonu on Sunday December 29, 2019 @07:47AM (#21905617)
I've had this exact same idea. The difference was there was a bit more tech or "AI" behind the scenes. You would still upload a picture of yourself. You would also build a model of what features you were looking for ... Maybe like choosing who you like better between two different pictures.

Then your matches would be made if both sides had high "similarity scores" for each other's pictures.

Re:Show HN: Dating Site Without Pictures by gieoon on Sunday December 29, 2019 @01:57PM (#21907678)
That's a really cool idea, it would be cool to compare profiles (maybe even using images generated from a GAN like thispersondoesnotexist.com) to figure out what kind of features are attractive, then choose from a pool of narrowed down candidates on both sides.

It just seemed like a bit of a hurdle to launch with