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the early OkCupid blog was really good at this
This one has always stuck with me (archive version: https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/okcupid/whyyoushouldne...)
> It turns out you are 12.4 times more likely to get married this year if you don't subscribe to Match.com.
more archives: https://www.reddit.com/r/gwern/comments/aapn1l/okcupid_blog_...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/technology/moviepass-econ...
What would cause that?
For example, most open source library projects that you include in a project don't change from build to build, but ant dutifully recompiles them each time instead of caching the output until the files in that project are changed or I manually clean the build output.
Google was created by creating web crawlers that indexed the content to rank pages. This exercise was a tribute to those algorithms.
It's painful to have a bunch of permissions in the manifest that aren't used by 100% of users, but 100% of them have to allow them if they want to install the app.
Seriously, make a competing site if you think you can do it for free.