Aren't commercial dating sites as a whole summarized as:

Keep supply of women high because men will pay anything for a chance?

I am very curious how this will be changed in this government platform. Maybe it won't LOL

vidarh 9 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

It's an interesting question, because on one hand the government goals will remove a lot of the perverse incentives. E.g. having people who aren't going to answer in the pool of profiles shown is mostly a negative. Doing actual, well thought out matches makes sense where for a commercial app favouring one-sided matches that keep one side wanting and not getting frequent answers can be better.

But on the other hand, if it appears "too limited" because the most desirable people disappear off quickly because of a successful match, maybe they'll still struggle to keep the users coming back to it even if they're actually doing a better job at matching people up...

Really depends whether the track record (assuming its good) becomes known enough to people, I'd guess.

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SwtCyber 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think that's a bit too reductive, but the incentive mismatch is real. Commercial apps generally benefit from people staying on the app; a government service theoretically benefits if people pair off and leave.

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eru 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Aren't commercial dating sites as a whole summarized as:

> Keep supply of women high because men will pay anything for a chance?

Grindr has a different fix.

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jansan 22 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You can try to replace women with bots, as those Chinese dating apps showed a few years ago:

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-42609353

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some_furry 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's also a market for lemons: Every match that leads to a long-term, exclusive relationship is two customers gone for good.

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Bluestein 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's a self-depleting market. The optimum is, a la Big Pharma, to keep 'em in "dating" limbo.-

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mschuster91 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> It's a self-depleting market.

On the other side you got a fresh supply on both sides from kids growing up to be adults and from adults divorcing and even if your matchmaking is perfect and divorce culturally shamed against, people still die which leaves widow(er)s behind, of whom a certain amount will want a new relationship.

	▲	stymaar an hour ago \| parent [-]
		But where's your infinite growth in MMR coming from in your scenario.

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dan-robertson an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I don’t think that a market for lemons is the right analogy or how it relates to your other claims. A market for lemons is one where buyers cannot distinguish between high and low quality goods (eg used cars). I think people are mostly ok at judging the ‘quality’ of romantic partners and the problem you describe is a different thing.