Project summary

""A clone of 2011 OkCupid" is the app that everyone wants to use and no one wants to make, and it has been since at least 2016" — Alyssa Vance (https://x.com/alyssamvance/status/1696554182302384199)

We are building this. We have Figma design files ready to go, pretty much all of our backend work done. We need a dev to FULL SEND so we can actually launch the damn site!

Read about our full vision in our deck: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fApadjP1cendkbUSYiSXBwC_couDCCv-VtqLY6Uv3qc/edit?usp=sharing

What are this project's goals and how will you achieve them?

A decent developer (must also be good at UI eng!) could accomplish it to enough level of polish to launch in something around 125 hours. We estimate:

• messaging - 40

• finish profile ui - 30

• onboarding improvement - 20

• search page filter improvements - 15

• search box improvements - 10

• question flow - 10
  

How will this funding be used?

To hire the dev so the MVP is done and can actually be launched.

Who is on your team and what's your track record on similar projects?

Shreeda Segan — writer and thinker. wrote https://summerofprotocols.com/research/dangerous-dating-protocols last year — the paper that pre-empted this project

Josh Hoover — powerful generalist engineer, hired by a handful of rationalists/EA types. Built almost all of the backend

What are the most likely causes and outcomes if this project fails? (premortem)

Causes:

• founders don't have enough money to fund themselves to keep working on this project; don't raise funding

• don't solve for network effects (we wanted to do events to solve for this & already did our first one in Austin. See deck above for details)

Outcomes:

• we're left at the mercy of others to solve the dating problem for us!

What other funding are you or your project getting?

We previously raised 5K on Manifund to hire our designer. We have Figma files for everything ready to implement!