Fyi, lot of Academics get paid once/month. I’m sure she realizes how lucky & privileged she is to get a tenure track position cuz extremely difficult, highly competitive and only a small % of those with a Phd get them.
Most Academics live in a bubble, just like Silicon Valley folks (mostly white males.)
The world does NOT really need another superficial app that only benefits SF area (& other similar, city types) folks who get millions of venture capital/angel investing funds but ultimately, not useful to regular people nor solving actual, concrete world problems.