Show HN: Dating Ring (YC W14) – We do the work, you do the dating

Re:Show HN: Dating Ring (YC W14) – We do the work, you do th... by GFK_of_xmaspast on Tuesday October 14, 2014 @09:43PM (#8456814)

I think you must be doing it wrong.

I got on okcupid a few years ago after being alone for years and years b/c of depression and social anxiety and in a matter of weeks I was swimming in dates, and in a matter of months I met the woman who's now my wife.

There's a lot that's unpleasant and stressful about online dating, but with a few classes of exceptions it's not society, it's not women, it's not the site, it's not anything else but you that's keeping you back.

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Re:Show HN: Dating Ring (YC W14) – We do the work, you do th... by Kalium on Tuesday October 14, 2014 @11:12PM (#8457015)

While I appreciate the attempted positive message, it's pretty clear to me that it's simply not an accurate reflection of reality. The common experience for guys on OKCupid does not involved any amount of "swimming in dates".

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Re:Show HN: Dating Ring (YC W14) – We do the work, you do th... by klipt on Thursday October 16, 2014 @04:03AM (#8463869)

Where do you live? The gender balance on OkCupid varies a lot by region, and needless to say when your gender is rarer (lower supply per demand) you'll have a better experience.

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Re:Show HN: Dating Ring (YC W14) – We do the work, you do th... by GFK_of_xmaspast on Thursday October 16, 2014 @08:32AM (#8464537)

At the time I was in central NJ.

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Re:Show HN: Dating Ring (YC W14) – We do the work, you do th... by klipt on Thursday October 16, 2014 @11:58PM (#8469371)

Pretty sure OkCupid is worse for guys in the Bay Area because the influx of software engineers (who are both mostly male, and the kind of people to try online dating) skews the site's demographics.

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