[liquidise]

If you built an ideal dating service, where 100% of your customers pair with someone they would marry, you could charge huge sums and you'd have an endless stream of customers as people grew into marrying age.

Today's market dynamics are different (no such ideal exists), but all the drivers remain: at some age people care deeply about meeting someone and will pay for a service that gives them s fighting chance. As a former dating app cto, i believe the reasons we don't have services that brag about their match or marriage rates is not capitalist greed standing in the way of love. The problem of matching people via an app is a genuinely difficult problem for a number of fascinating reasons.

[toomuchtodo]

Indeed, but what you describe is a matchmaker service, not a dating app. I strongly believe and agree such a service can charge a premium, be successful, and brag about its stats. I just don’t think it works in the form of a dating app due to logistics and customer expectations.

[JohnBooty]

    As a former dating app cto, i believe the reasons we don't 
    have services that brag about their match or marriage rates 
    is not capitalist greed standing in the way of love. The 
    problem of matching people via an app is a genuinely difficult 
    problem for a number of fascinating reasons.

Well, at a basic level, how would we even know when they connect in real life?

(FWIW, I used to run sort of a dating site too, very small/niche, one person operation)