[Beltalowda]

If someone gave me a big bag of money then working on a better dating site would probably be what I'd do with it. I think it's very hard pull off as a "personal project" though, because a dating site needs people to be useful and attracting people is neither free nor easy. And you also need some form of "content control" to weed out the dickpics and other assorted assholery, which is also neither free nor easy.

> Of course, the whole premise of dating sites is wrong. The best way to make connections is in person, by going places regularly and seeing the same people frequently... building some non-romantic connections first which may grow into something more. Dating sites assume that if "I think I like you" and "you think you like me" then we are a match!. This sets up big expectations too soon...

In principle, I guess, but my experience is that many social spaces of all types are overwhelmingly male. There are probably some commentaries to be made about that, but I'm not sure what.

And while it can set up certain expectations, I don't think that needs to be a bad thing, necessarily.