noughtnaut

Thank you for asking.

The theme can be answered a number of different ways.

• In one sense, I strive to at least support (if not outright focus on) minorities rather than simply catering to the mononormative.
• In another sense, one goal that doesn't directly relate to dating is to offer a platform that is independent (of Match Group) and EU-centric in terms of both client focus and technical infrastructure.
• I want to bring back a lot of what has been lost to enshittification in other apps, things I've personally been missing and also seen being a common complaint when dating apps in general are discussed online. If you've been on, say, OkC more than a year, you'll probably remember valuable, useful features that just aren't there anymore.
• If you've been on any dating app, you know how icky and frustrating and just straight up annoying the apps themselves are (before you even factor in the behaviour of the users, and their reasons).

Ideally, a dating app should have massive amounts of transient users. If you have users who've been there for years, you're not giving them what they want (but you might be giving them something else in order to keep them hooked...).

So as for the monetary goal, there are many gates that must be passed before finances become a critical issue. I've published things as open source, and if six users find you, you have six happy users. A dating app not only requires a massive amount of users, it also requires significant local user density for it to be useful. I am fundamentally aiming for low cost of upkeep with the goal of enabling the app to survive having relatively few users, even if they aren't paying much.

I can say this much: I've done the math and am pretty confident in being able to deliver at a fraction of the cost of any existing offering. My plan is to offer no free tier (huge barrier, I am aware) but then offer a very-reasonably-priced paid tier that unlocks everything. I want the app to be transparent, helpful, and eschewing dark patterns and money-grabbing schemes. I don't expect you to believe it, but I'm not doing this for the purpose of profit; I just don't think a dating app that's entirely free is going to work very well vis-a-vis attracting high-quality participants.

Do I think I've "cracked" or "solved" online dating? Absolutely not. There are things I know I will never do, other things I know I'll be (almost) the only one to do, and a number of topics and issues that I don't know even can be resolved in any meaningful way.

This is somewhat relatable: I'm building a dating app without blackjack and hookers. Well, at least without the blackjack.

Not gonna lie, it's not a weekend project! And that's before even considering the eventual launch and marketing.

I'd invite you to watch a bit of the YouTube channel "Clickspring" and ask if you'd like to revise your statement. 🙂 As a spoiler, he starts off with a blank desk, builds a lathe, and then an entire antikythera mechanism - by hand, using essentially bronze-age technology. And, he does that while making it look so very mesmerising and elegant. Time well wasted!

Unironically continuously breaking new ground on how close I can get to landing a job, without landing a job. It's frankly astounding.

Just last week, had a great series of interviews, bossman says he'll send me a contract. Monday morning, I text him to ask if there's a problem with email or some other hold-up, am told a system is hung but I'll get it. Tuesday morning get a text from a completely different bossman informing me that bossman 1 has been fired, and he'll pick up from there. Had another interview, with him now. Last word, I'll get the contract this coming week. Uh huh.

I have, of course, other things in the pipeline but they're not as far progressed. Plus, that is not even an outlier, that's how every fucking thing in my life goes.

This is almost entirely unrelated but I just love how Bodo Wartke can sing his Liebeslied in "Turkish German" (and unbelievable dozens of other languages).

I wonder if you would find Doctorow's "Little Brother" more palatable. It's set in "modern times" (ugh, depressing to admit that no, it's more accurately set in recent past before things in real life went even crazier out of whack). Also, the main characters are teens and young adults, and while the target audience is "young adults" it can certainly be an eye-opening experience for adult "sheeple" too (not implying you're one, to be clear).

I've never heard of this, that is very interesting and definitely goes to the top of my reading list. Thank you!

Would be better if they had to apply online with an 18-25 year olds resume.

...which they then need to re-type into 17 different fields in a not quite broken corporate HR website.

It's even funnier with "point of sale" machines (ie. cash registers and/or payment terminals). We just sent the customer our newest and best POS! 😂👌

When I first got into BSD (way before Linux) I found man pages useful... but no way to leave them. Not even man man won't tell you how to exit a man page!

So I would tinker, eventually needing a man page, reading what I needed -- and then hard power cycle the machine. -_-

I was pretty good with computers, but that was a humbling experience. You just don't know what you don't know, and if you can't ask... sometimes you just get stuck. Just like in KQ, LSL, SQ, ... The Internet is (was) a blessing.

Old Russian trinary hardware? That would be quite an achievement!

She's a sane person and as such she did not.