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I’ve wondered about this for years. Given the obviously misaligned incentives between a for-profit dating app and its users, dating seems like a perfect area for a non-profit to operate.

It’s not non-profit afaik but doesn’t plenty of fish [0] essentially provide this service?

The problem is the population has already been divided and Match exists using predatory practices. You could maybe dethrone it using regulations or an organic campaign.

0 [ https://www.pof.com ]

https://github.com/Alovoa/alovoa

Nice effort but I'm thinking more of a cloud-native app. Simply because if it's to be non-profit, it should be as cheap as possible. And RDS with MariaDB does not fit. Alovoa seems more aimed at self-hosting.

I've actually detailed an idea like this a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27474424