Dating Apps don’t need to be corporate. You could make an app for a whole country with a company of less than 10 people.

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zurfer 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If there was no fraud and abuse and legal issues and ...

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hypfer 2 hours ago | parent [-]

No, even with that. 10 people are a lot, actually.

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intended 14 minutes ago | parent [-]

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?

	▲	hypfer 12 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Which problems do you see that would require all of this, given that it is a nation platform where you are authenticated via your government ID? 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?
	▲	iso1631 6 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Singapore's population is 6 million, about 1.7 million are aged between 16 and 40. That's 1000 times smaller than your "few billion" scale, before you remove those already in partnerships or those who don't want to.

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sigmoid10 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

In practice it would be 10 managers and in-between contractor types siphoning all allotted money and then an unexperienced dev building a terrible overburdened service that noone wants to use.

	▲	pydry 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		depends on the country. this type of corruption is guaranteed in some countries, less so in others. Singapore is usually good at avoiding it. Their online services are very good. the government can switch up the incentives and for example make payment contingent on people actually using the platform as well as opening the tender to startup teams (usually they are locked out).