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For the whole pipeline, you should also connect:

Tinder + your calendar app + Opentable

to automate the dating process.

The output of that can be the input of this.

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You think it's simple, but you're ignoring all sorts of error handling and alternate process paths.

lol.

As someone who has attempted to date (not bragging) in what I affectionately call "real life", I am somewhat acquainted with the dangers of both error and alternate paths in dating.

You should read The Rosie Project. I enjoyed it, and your comment reminded me of the protoganist.

Yeah, at a minimum you need to include Burner and Ghostbot https://ghostbot.burnerapp.com/#/

RaaS? Relationship as a Service.

Add a couple more features, we might well have LaaS (Life as a Service)

And SaaS (Sex as a Service).

The day there's an app for people seeking prostitutes where both parties leave stars and text reviews like Airbnb or Uber will be a weird day.

not that those rating systems can't be gamed, but yeah, this would definitely be better than the current situation of criminalized prostitution. esp if prostitutes could leave reviews of clients. i imagine there'd be less scamming, violence, and disease transmission on both sides of that sort of transaction if there were reputable rating services that let prostitutes and clients vet one another. it would also lessen the value of pimps/madames/etc, thus making it easier for prostitutes to work independently, which would hopefully lessen the prevalence of sex trafficking and sexual exploitation.

so yeah, weird, but in a good "we finally got rid of a relic of our prudish past" sort of way.

You could even get a little blue "verified" checkmark next to your name after you pass an STD test.

Holy shit this is a startup idea! Who is in?

I'm in. We'll call it Layd.

I can't stop laughing at this thread.

I'm thinking http://layd.io would be an awesome title. I think the IO really gets at what we're going for.

Domain is available, who's in?

In? In jail, you mean?

And if you're operating in an area where the legality of the service is gray, you can use machine learning to make sure clients with high probabilities of being government enforcers don't get any action.

Well, not exactly an app, but some forums dedicated to reviews for courtesans are quite old.

There was: https://www.wired.com/2015/02/redbook/

WIOIP (Wedding Invite over IP)

I believe that is the world's oldest service.

There was a short story / satire article posted about this in the past. The author automated dating with open table APIs, tinder and facial recognition, uber for ride home, etc.

Does anyone remember this / have a link? My Google fu is failing.

Going out to eat, food, for the first date is a bad thing to do. It's more efficient and your date will appreciate it if it's drinks. (Second date go out to eat)

nice dating pipeline.

Although, I'm interested of designs for later stages - around kids. Any suggestions?

There are just some things in life that you should not automate.

Sure. https://airwnb.io/ will connect you to independent contractors happy to share their wombs and breasts with your preferred IVF candidates. Later, there's https://aupa.ir/ and https://babysitt.tr/ .

EDIT: Inspired by http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/magazine/30Surrogate-t.htm... . You really can have it all!

I got profundily sad that those url returned 404.

I have a feeling he was talking about the process prior to that.

None of those links work...

i was just talking with my friend to have something like this. It takes a while from being swipe right to book an actual date

There was a Youtube video of a guy who did that.

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