Okay let's approach this a different way.
How could a dating app built using Nostr be a better way of connecting people than the current versions that are out there, with an honest business model that is not based on debt so as to mitigate the risk of exploitation of its users?
Right now dating apps have no incentive to work. Just to keep people on them.
A see a client that simply has the optionality of disclosing your marital status which would indicate to others that you’re either available or not.
Then conversation can happen organically
Current successful and mainstream dating platforms are charging high fees to keep low quality people off the platform. Dating sites are overrun by men immediately and you have to control your userbase and men-women ratio or you're dead in the water. Like a club. That's why women get to sign up for free most of the times and men have to pay.
However once you charge money and manipulate and moderate what's happening, you have to have a big team of employees, with that comes all the company baggage, you're in a jurisdiction and have to abide by whatever rules they make up and so forth.
With nine of that, you can implement all the settings people want and self-moderating tools that no company offers due to political correctness.
I see no problem with exploitation even with the current platforms. Those are services offered by companies, take it or leave it.
So like a decentralized literal match maker! You pick and choose what you want and only see profiles that match that (and you match their preferences).
Dont make it about money lol
Unfortunately everything costs money to operate. Even decentralized technology.
Correct
If its rum on nostr, the infrastructure costs are basically $0
I'm not sure this is true. Nostr devs often ask for donations.
I run a relay, I know how it works
Anyone can spin up a relay for $10 a month
A dating app would need more than just a relay. But even $10 a month is a cost. Nothing is free.
Devs can always add premium features or cost to send/receive images
The cost to do this is basically nothing compared to traditional dating apps
If devs use existing relays, it drops to only image hosting
If that's so then why do Nostr devs get grants from opensats and ask for donations?
You are relating two completely different things here. Grants are for dev work on the nostr ecosystem.
Anyone can run a relay.
On nostr, you see cool devs like jb55 offer a relay for his app Damus as well as get grants for his app.
I run a spam-free public relay and offer lightning wallets for free. How bout dat?
That's awesome that you provide that.
Yes anyone can run a relay (we do in my home as well). But that is very different from operating a dating app. Even if it uses Nostr. I say this as someone building nostr:npub17vscfmnmshfdw68llhduxtr4h0kkmyhzm4phzs40t3gqsmguz7lsak66ne and everything is somehow still costing money.
Oy vay..........why is this so hard to reach you lol
Depending on how you do it , paying the dev can be your only cost . You can even offload the media upload cost to third-party servics
Yes but that is still a cost. 😅 I'm not sure how these few expenses we're in agreement on don't count as costs.
Also, look at Amethyst,provides nothing but an app. Vitor's only costs is his time
That project is supported by opensats. https://opensats.org/projects/amethyst
