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Open Source Dating App

4 pointsldelossa2 comments

Hey guys,

A colleague of mine and I began working on a dating app on our spare time. We had what we think is a novel idea which moves away from cookie-cutter tinder and bumble concept.

We've both gotten pretty busy with work and other projects and had trouble sourcing another iOS dev who wanted to work for free.

So like most projects that are somewhat abandoned we opened sourced it and threw it on the internet.

The application is written in Golang taking a microservice approach. There is a portion of an iOS application plugged in but definitely not finished.

We may work on the code on and off, its there for a reference architecture, examples of Golang code, or just to muck around with.

Currently hosted on gitlab. My Github Handle: ldelossa Colleague GithubHandle: mkapnic

https://gitlab.com/michaelk99/saturdate

Enjoy.

Sorry for the negative feedback, but I'm not sure on the practicality of some of your main features:

> Sidenote: all bars are scraped from yelp.

Is it only bars? If so this is going to be a no-go for a ton of users. Coffee is a much more appropriate meeting spot for people with a lower price point, less commitment, no intoxication, easy to have a conversation, etc.

> Oh, and one more important thing. There's no chat within the app.

I would see this as a missing feature and something that will turn a ton of potential users off to your platform. People want/need to vet each other out before meeting in-person (especially women, and I say this as a man). A quick textual chat can really save you a lot of time, as I filtered a ton of potential dates out that way.

> We will have opportunities for users to verify themselves with their linkedin profile (this would come at a cost, i.e., $10)

In addition to the previous point I made, this is a non-starter because there are still a ton of creeps/jerks that are on LinkedIn, and I don't see this as a concession for removing messaging from your platform.

nice idea!

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