Impact Island is proud to sign up to be one of the first institutional users of the Updating App. We believe that there is not enough romantic tension and drama within the effective altruism community. This decreases viewership ratings and thus impact. We hope that having a partnership with the premier EAs-only dating app can help change that.
There’s a natural synergy between this project and infant outreach: people who want children could be matched with others who are running infant outreach programs.
But my biggest criticism is the lack of any prediction market integration. Surely users should be able to bet, for any pair of users, on whether they will start/end a relationship, as well as its average quality? Not having this feature misses a really important source of information.
This is a very good point! We’ll strongly consider those additions in our EAGL app update.
Building off of your ideas of prediction market integration, I think a next step for UpDating could be a developing a community-wide forecasting platform so that EAs could predict the longevity of relationships started on the app. People aren’t well calibrated in relationship predictions and at UpDating we’d like to help with that.
It’s amazing you posted this! I started thinking about this topic again last month, and made the decision to build a niche dating site for EAs.
I even think there’s a seed of something that makes sense in the idea of prediction market integration. This is something further down the line than what I can build, but if matchmakers could bet on a relationship pairing early, stake a bet on it happening, and then get a financial reward, this seems like a better incentive structure than the current dating infrastructure that wants to keep users swiping.
Impact Island is proud to sign up to be one of the first institutional users of the Updating App. We believe that there is not enough romantic tension and drama within the effective altruism community. This decreases viewership ratings and thus impact. We hope that having a partnership with the premier EAs-only dating app can help change that.
There’s a natural synergy between this project and infant outreach: people who want children could be matched with others who are running infant outreach programs.
But my biggest criticism is the lack of any prediction market integration. Surely users should be able to bet, for any pair of users, on whether they will start/end a relationship, as well as its average quality? Not having this feature misses a really important source of information.
Strong +1, this could also help with creating a sustainable finical business model.
This is a very good point! We’ll strongly consider those additions in our EAGL app update.
Building off of your ideas of prediction market integration, I think a next step for UpDating could be a developing a community-wide forecasting platform so that EAs could predict the longevity of relationships started on the app. People aren’t well calibrated in relationship predictions and at UpDating we’d like to help with that.
It’s amazing you posted this! I started thinking about this topic again last month, and made the decision to build a niche dating site for EAs.
I even think there’s a seed of something that makes sense in the idea of prediction market integration. This is something further down the line than what I can build, but if matchmakers could bet on a relationship pairing early, stake a bet on it happening, and then get a financial reward, this seems like a better incentive structure than the current dating infrastructure that wants to keep users swiping.