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.
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Yeah, I’ve read in another book, the Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chen, that to form an atomic network you should think even more specific than you normally would. I was considering EA as kinda niche but it would make sense that people generally want to date others constrained by location. Though early adopters might care a bit less if they’re willing to travel or have online relationships?
Hello! I am the Affective Altruist, and I am building a little dating website for EAs. I’m starting off with WordPress to keep it simple. Consider this a fun side project of mine, and friendly competitor to reciprocity.io. ^_^
Is anyone interested? What simple features would you want from such a site? Should I make a top-level question asking this?
Updates:
I own the domain effectivealtruism.dating, which currently points to a matchmaking bounty spreadsheet someone linked in the Facebook group “Effective Dating”. Let me know if there’s something better to point it to.
I made a Discord server for those interested in this. It could either be used to matchmake people in the server or project manage building a prototype with volunteers who want to help.
I am still strongly in favor of using a no-code builder to prototype something simple and iterate towards something better and more sophisticated. This is a passion project for me personally and I definitely don’t think it would or probably should be funded by major funders.