From people who deal with the trust and safety side of things, at a national scale of a few billion people, 10 people is definitely not enough.
What size of population are you considering for this hypothetical nation?
What size of population are you considering for this hypothetical nation?
And which nations are scaled to a few billion people?
And they all date? Every single one of them? The married couples? The children and the elderly?
India is a billion plus people. Google says that the dating app user base is 100mn, which is much lower than the total number of people who would use a government match making app.
That’s why the question regarding scale. That assumption makes a 10 person firm for a nation viable or impossible.
That's 1000 times smaller than your "few billion" scale, before you remove those already in partnerships or those who don't want to.
> You could make an app for a whole country with a company of less than 10 people.
Perhaps you could do it for Singapore, I’d love to know how those 10 people would be split across functions, and how they would handle the fraud and safety issues that crop up.