Re:Why you should never pay for online dating (OkCupid) (2010)
by btbuildem on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @03:16PM
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I like the alignment of incentives here, but "match" would have to be defined better. If it's a literal match (mutual like) it would effectively be a per-pay-like and wouldn't work. Maybe something along the lines of "matched, chatted, met, stopped using the app for X period of time"?
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Re:Why you should never pay for online dating (OkCupid) (2010)
by xtracto on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @04:20PM
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Yep, I've thought something like that:
For every month that you use the app to a certain degree (number of viewed profiles, page loads or whatnot) I will give you back 1/nth (1/12th) of your deposit. If you don't use it enough, then I'll "keep" that month's budget as a subscription payment. The idea is that once you match with someone, you will stop using the app, and the rest of the money will slowly go to me.
I am convinced it could be a good model, of course as with everything, there are several things to be solved before making it a sound business.