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1. janalsncm · 1790819453 · focus · HN ↗

   In principle this can be a lot better than regular dating apps.

   Tinder doesn’t know if they were successful or not. They just know you stopped opening the app. In fact they are incentivized not to make matches that lead to marriage, because then you will stop paying.

   The government knows whether you got married and stayed married, and given the social cost of divorce, they are pretty incentivized to keep people married.

   1. 010ED67913 · 1790853005 · focus · HN ↗

      > Tinder doesn’t know if they were successful or not. They just know you stopped opening the app.

      what do you mean? if you stop opening the app, they were not successful. any seas founders here who want their users to stop using the service?

      1. janalsncm · 1790886449 · focus · HN ↗

         Tinder doesn’t know if you stopped using it because you found a partner they recommended, found a partner in some other way, got frustrated and gave up trying, or got frustrated and tried a different app.

         Also they won’t know who you started dating. It’s most likely not the last person you matched with or messaged. So any training data will probably be incredibly noisy, because romantic compatibility is not something that happens in the app.

         1. fragmede · 1790887107 · focus · HN ↗

            Why wouldn't they? In this day and age, if we're them, I'd be buying all the third party advertising data I could, and correlate users in order to find the answers to your questions, so I know who to serve which advertisments to. Girlfriend posting angry things about boyfriend to Instagram? Perfect time to drop an ad for her to come back to Tinder.

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