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What you are describing sounds remarkably similar to the dating videos concept from the 1980's. I guess all that is old becomes new again!

(Did a quick search that turned up two low quality links to illustrate what I mean)

https://www.thrillist.com/sex-dating/nation/lessons-learned-...

https://www.businessinsider.com/found-footage-awkward-80s-vi...

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The similarities are only superficial though. That is like a bunch of video job interviews, what I'm describing is more like a virtual pub where you can preferentially join conversations with other singles who share similar interests.

Sounds like a video chat version of clubhouse. On paper it looked great but devolved into people mostly trying to build/sell/promote their brand which resulted in most conversations turning into something like low quality crowd sourced podcasting.

There will always be people trying to do that for various reasons, but I think optional geofencing and the ability to have the feed algorithm focus on potential romantic partners would make it a bad platform to invest energy in.

I think the big difference is that now we have technology that allows it to be more than an awkward canned VHS sales video you made 6 months ago and close-to-realtime point-to-point interaction.

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