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[–] CosmicGoat@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you're open to sharing, I'm curious what you're going to be doing different with your app so that it stands apart from others?

[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] CosmicGoat@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This really does sound great. I hope the best for you and those that might benefit.

I've never used such an app, but I've heard and seen enough to know it can be pretty challenging.