Dating apps are often a miserable experience for the participants, however for some reason they are quite popular and at times can be quite addictive.
Dating apps are often a miserable experience for the participants, however for some reason they are quite popular and at times can be quite addictive.
The problem with them is that they’re designed to be addictive, and connecting people is actively against the economic interests of the app owners, so they don’t truly try and connect people.
So how would you go about truly connecting people and still making money?
If someone could figure that out they would be sitting on a billion dollar idea.
Japan has an industry for that with quite different business models. I don’t think it produces many loving relationships, but it’s at least a good reference for other flawed approaches that haven’t worked.
One thing they get a bit better: You pay mostly if they find a matching partner for you and there is a wedding fee (so if it did work for people to decide they get married, that’s when you pay). Many, many other problems though