I wonder if it would be worth creating an app that just sends you on dates using AI. Like, you don't even get to look at the other person's profile. Then afterwards you would report to the app whether you would go on another date with the person you just went out with or not.
To be honest, sadly, I think you're onto something.
I can imagine the AI agents chatting to each other, figuring out what you like. I can see the chain of thought going "I can't say XYZ is lazy and rough, instead I'll say he saves his energy for what really matters, and lives to the full".
So many apps are just image attractiveness scoring plus some superficial conversation with pleasantries, which are both things AI do well at.
This has to be the most effective ad campaign they have done, I have seen some variation of this story on every platform I use. I don't think the brand has a lot of goodwill, but my awareness has gone through the roof due to this AI push
I'd argue that they don't need an ad campaign, tbh. Everyone already knows it exists; in regions where it's popular it's generally due to the lack of a decent local competitor. As you say, no-one really _likes_ Grindr.
Why has the world not made an open-source zero trust dating app?
It's such a basic need it seems for people, but the current app landscape is filled with scams, dark patterns, selling your data, trying to keep you locked in,...
I'm not sure if I don't understand your comment, or you're misunderstanding 'zero trust':
> implemented by establishing identity verification, validating device compliance prior to granting access, and ensuring least privilege access to only explicitly-authorized resources.
I was thinking about zero trust in the context of simply confirming if a user is 18+, where the identity provider only returns a true or false withour exposing more info. For a dating app you'd want the identity provider to confirm a whole lot more, which might not even be present in the ID
Back in the day I used livejournal and for a couple of years in a row I setup a matchmaking site that paired users up.
You'd login to my site and see a list of all the blogs you followed, then you could nominate five of them as people you were interested in.
If they did the same, you'd both get a notification.
It was a cute system and because it was restricted to selecting only from people you already followed it was nice and local. The code was released at the time, but has now become lost in the winds.
I could almost imagine setting it up again for instagram, facebook, or similar, but .. getting users would be hard I imagine, and I'm sure the companies would try to sue or prohibit it.
Haven't seen any "zero trust" dating apps but there are plenty of free ones (some operating with a "donations" model, like duolicious). How do you envision a zero trust dating app to work in practice?
> Why has the world not made an open-source zero trust dating app?
What would that even mean?
Not the open source part, what is a "zero trust dating app"?
Given what we see in other primates, abusive spouses almost certainly predate anatomically modern humans, while gold diggers will have likely existed from the moment we abstracted money in the sense of "rare shiny rock that is a token of power to be spent in the future".
Another gay hookup app surveyed its user base on this a while back. Spoiler, user base is lukewarm at best on the ol' magic robots, unlikely to pay $500/month for them: https://www.romeo.com/en/blog/ai_and_gay_dating/
Minor caveat is that Romeo is mostly only big in Europe, and Europe _does_ tend a bit more AI-sceptical than everywhere else. But, still, not looking great.
This is actually a genius level move from Grindr. Anthropic/OpenAI can only dream of the stable userbase like this.
Few years ago I even suggested they should add actual brainstorming and prototyping features like Framer for bros to discuss their business ideas. Dopamine rush of grindr notification into my AI chats would literally be insane levels of productivity.
Grindr is next Google. Sometimes when I need to search something, I dont even open google or chatGPT, i just type into the DMs of someone and they refuse to answer.
lol wut. What exactly is the AI doing for 500 USD a month?
New AI features include recaps of previous conversations with other users, daily personalised profile recommendations and profile insights to help users identify who they are more likely to be compatible with.
Grindr is trash. It's mostly full of desperate incompatible people (i.e. same sexual position, mostly passives), open couples who just want dopamine hits and other time-wasters. Good luck with offering a $500 sub!
You'd actually be better off spending $500/mo on an escort or two. Surely they've realised at that price point, that's a serious competitor
What makes things count is most often precisely the effort spent on them.
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