Crosspost "Thoughts on a new dating app concept" from /r/PurplePillDebate:

Thought the sub would be a good place to get some feedback and input on a dating app a friend and I have been working on. We are trying a different take in the hopes that it can remedy some of the issues (of course not all) with current apps (lack of women, demoralizing, bad matches), so wanted to get some more diverse opinions on the concept and if people think it's something they would try.

The main idea is centered around removing shitty recommending algorithms and centering it on large group decision making. The idea originated from reading studies on how large-scale group decision-making generally results in better decision making across a variety of domains, as well as watching some matchmaking shows on Netflix.

The main idea is that everyone signs up as a matchmaker and swipes right or left on matches between two daters, either on the general public or specifically for friends/family. Basically "crowdsourcing" dating and having everyone vote on other people's matches. Daters are given cards to swipe on in order of most upvoted, so they get feedback that X amount of people looked into them + thought they would be a good match. Matchmakers would gain a sort of "elo" and climb up and down on their city's leaderboards to make the matchmaking more gamified and provide an incentive for it, and then daters can send matchmaking requests to the top matchmakers from there.

Our thoughts on the benefits were:

  • This expands the userbase to include non-singles, from our customer discovery interviews it seemed the demographic most interested in matchmaking were all women (both single and non-single) around the age of 18-35 who in turn said they would want to bring their single female friends onto the app
  • Daters don't have to do any work other than making a complete profile
  • Is less demoralizing and objectifying for daters, as well as hopefully provides better insight b/c people are usually pretty bad at judging themselves
  • Matchmakers are incentivized to make good matches because bad matches are penalized on the leaderboard which should hopefully translate to them holistically looking at people's compatibility
  • Hopefully the matchmaking swiping game is fun and engaging which keeps people on the app and engaged with it

Do you guys think this concept would work at all? Suggestions or criticisms?

Edit: https://quivr.date/ is our website for everyone asking to get sent an invite to the beta

Posted by Madcuzbad21 | 13 November 2022 | Link