A 4-month online dating experiment using 10 fictional singletons (2012)

Re:A 4-month online dating experiment using 10 fictional sin... by taigeair on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @01:42AM (#25206535)

I'm a cofounder of a dating app and we actually resisted letting people filter for race. Not sure about the impact on metrics but it is our current position. We let people filter on nationality instead because that speaks to the person's values and world views. We also let people filter based on personality and language.

It's been interesting and fun trying to fix what's wrong with online dating. The big thing being the misalignment of interest. https://www.fairytrail.app/reinventing-the-online-dating-bus...

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Re:A 4-month online dating experiment using 10 fictional sin... by coupdejarnac on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @06:45AM (#25208227)

It seems to me that not being able to filter people for things like race is an antipattern designed to increase engagement. IE waste my time trying to find what I want. Unless you're willing to not optimize your income, I doubt you'll be able to solve online dating.

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Re:A 4-month online dating experiment using 10 fictional sin... by rhizome on Thursday November 26, 2020 @03:55AM (#25218186)

Isn't "solv[ing] online dating" a business antipattern?

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Re:A 4-month online dating experiment using 10 fictional sin... by coupdejarnac on Friday November 27, 2020 @10:49PM (#25235108)

Yes, exactly. :)

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Re:A 4-month online dating experiment using 10 fictional sin... by scarmig on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @01:55AM (#25206605)

> The big thing being the misalignment of interest.

Could you elaborate what you mean by this?

I'm currently out of the market, but your app looks more interesting than the typical one. Best of luck with it!

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