I watched the first three episodes of it, starting yesterday, and I’m loving it so far.
Apologies for the delay in getting back to you. I am very carefully trying to find a space to share with people what I’m building … I don’t want to be blocked for selling things (I’m really not), but I hope to find a place to start a conversation about what an actually user friendly offering could look like.
I cannot believe that these existing offerings must be so expensive, and so enshittified. Where is the open source mentality?
Here’s a short and very incomplete list of things that could be done differently: - be priced reasonably - have one tier that includes everything - not have tons of dark patterns, anxiety traps, and addictive or just shitty behaviour - have better tools to manage the deluge of likes and messages (esp. a problem for women) - not remove features that users were happy with - not inject fake scarcity - mechanics to pause your own account, and cull inactive users - not enable mindless mass-swiping - let users filter on what’s in people’s profiles (again, without paying extra) - respect filters (eg. don’t show me people from 7000km away when I’ve set a 15km radius) - have filters be symmetrical (don’t show me smokers when I ask not to - and also don’t show me to smokers) - be radically transparent about user base, statistics, traffic, etc.
I’m still far from an alpha product and haven’t even secured a domain yet. Still laying the technical groundwork and reading research papers.
This really does sound great and I hope the best for you and those that might benefit.