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Tbh, maybe someone should try making an open-source dating app.

You know what, being a dev myself that’s something I’ll try as a hobby project. We’ll see how it work out.

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59 points

Making a dating app is easy. Getting the users is not.

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23 points

Getting women* users is not

There ain’t never a shortage of thirsty males haha

Well maybe after ww2 there was a time… But you get the point.

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7 points

Easy fix: The user base should be gay dudes

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5 points

They should try men

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Honestly, dating apps are one of the cases for a federated system. Use whatever frontend you want, no one person owns the backend so they can’t sleazily monetize you. Probably would need to be a bit more cryptographic than something like lemmy or mastodon though.

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I know about:
Alova

  • License: MPL-2.0
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7 points

As always someone already thought of it 😂.

I’ll take a look.

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17 points

IDK much about it, but this exists:

https://github.com/Alovoa/alovoa

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With activityhub gaining traction, I actually think it’s possible. You essentially self host your profile, which gets federated around. You swipe left/right, thereby accepting federation from a match of blocking.

This could work.

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5 points

Could be a good idea to differentiate from exiating solutions.

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7 points

Keep us posted pls.

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5 points

Will do, but don’t expect anything for at least a few month. 😆

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You know what, being a dev myself that’s something I’ll try as a hobby project. We’ll see how it work out.

That’s what heroes do

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4 points

Duolicious is one. Its user base is mostly 4channers though.

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4 points

If you need machine learning to match people, send me a message lol

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Depends on how it is used. But I don’t think it should be used for the matching process itself though. Maybe to help match interest (tags) between each other, like giving a connection score between two of them, but other than that, I see no other privacy respecting way to use that.
Moreover, on which data would we train on? I don’t think there is any anonymized dating app dataset around.

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