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Re:College as a Marriage Market by guerrilla on Saturday April 24, 2021 @07:12AM (#26924039)
As someone currently heavily using dating apps, your idea sounds interesting. I don't really get the "movies / TV series preferences" thing though, I wouldn't really want to chose someone based on that but maybe that's just me.

Whatever you do, if you succeed, I beg you please never sell out to Match Group (who own Tinder, Match.com, Meetic, OkCupid, Hinge, PlentyOfFish, Ship, and OurTime.)

Re:College as a Marriage Market by langitbiru on Saturday April 24, 2021 @07:46AM (#26924211)
> I don't really get the "movies / TV series preferences"

Basically, I'm experimenting with my dating app. I built the dating app with the premise on some people want to find dates in Linkedin. So I give them space in SwanLove.

Then I'm thinking of adding other social medias to it. So you can find dates in GitHub, Twitter, Strava, Chess.com, etc.

In a nutshell, SwanLove adds dating to any social medias.

Then some people tweeted about creating a dating app based on movies preferences. So I added that to my dating app as well.

I'm throwing many darts and see which ones are stuck.

> I beg you please never sell out to Match Group

So a couple of days ago, some people in HN criticized me on creating this centralized dating app. It would become a honeypot for hackers. So that gave me an idea to build a decentralized dating app (like GitLab or WordPress).

Yes, I'll do my utmost not to sell out to them.

Re:College as a Marriage Market by SunlightEdge on Saturday April 24, 2021 @08:41AM (#26924464)
Swanlove is a cool website.

Has there been much response from linkedin users?

I'd have thought that men and women might want to steer clear of mixing business and dating.

Re:College as a Marriage Market by langitbiru on Saturday April 24, 2021 @09:20AM (#26924662)
Thank you. Less than 1000 registered users are on SwanLove. Basically, I'm dealing with marketplace problem (chicked and egg problem).

Yeah, a lot of people told me that dating for Linkedin is stupid. :)

But it's just beginning. I want to add dating to other online places like Strava, GitHub, Twitter, Chess.com, and so on.

The idea is you may find someone you like on Chess.com and you want to convey your interest to them but you're afraid being "punished" because Chess.com is not for dating. You can replace Chess.com with Strava, GitHub, or other social medias.

You can see how many women complaint about getting unwanted advances in Twitter. So I just want to separate people who want to date into a group with SwanLove.