I think the real struggle would be how to get anywhere near enough users to make the app usable—there are hundreds of copycat dating apps which don’t place onerous restrictions on can use them and struggle to get traction, and you’re talking about opening it to maybe 5-10000 people in the world.
So my first thought would be ‘make the category more general’. It’s not like I’m only interested in dating other EAs—and I also doubt my profile of partners is particularly typical among EAs, or that there will even be that much commonality in who we prefer to date.
Tbh what I would really like is an app that takes the best of OKCupid before it was acquired and seemingly actively sabotaged by the group who acquired it (something with meaningful questions, the option to add more, filters that actually work, the ability to just view all people in your selected area and sort by match %), and then starts innovating (rather than making it more Tinder-like) from there.
For eg, you could let users select the weightings of their own questions as well as specific tags that people apply to themselves (so that eg you could make the ‘effective altruist’ tag mandatory, a dealbreaker, or anywhere in between), that had better bot control, that let you view same-sex profiles without having to change your sexuality, that let you opt in to explicit content (while still having hard controls against people who posted it without marking their profile as explicit), that somehow algorithmically arranged singles events for people in the same rough profile bubble, and presumably much more cool stuff you could think of.
I think the real struggle would be how to get anywhere near enough users to make the app usable—there are hundreds of copycat dating apps which don’t place onerous restrictions on can use them and struggle to get traction, and you’re talking about opening it to maybe 5-10000 people in the world.
So my first thought would be ‘make the category more general’. It’s not like I’m only interested in dating other EAs—and I also doubt my profile of partners is particularly typical among EAs, or that there will even be that much commonality in who we prefer to date.
Tbh what I would really like is an app that takes the best of OKCupid before it was acquired and seemingly actively sabotaged by the group who acquired it (something with meaningful questions, the option to add more, filters that actually work, the ability to just view all people in your selected area and sort by match %), and then starts innovating (rather than making it more Tinder-like) from there.
For eg, you could let users select the weightings of their own questions as well as specific tags that people apply to themselves (so that eg you could make the ‘effective altruist’ tag mandatory, a dealbreaker, or anywhere in between), that had better bot control, that let you view same-sex profiles without having to change your sexuality, that let you opt in to explicit content (while still having hard controls against people who posted it without marking their profile as explicit), that somehow algorithmically arranged singles events for people in the same rough profile bubble, and presumably much more cool stuff you could think of.