Match rates where true for me as well in comparison to other apps. However, what I found interesting is that I’d routinely run out of matches on my last month of being “premium”. As soon as the paid gig was up, all of a sudden, profiles of potential matches in my area that I had never seen prior are numerous. BUT.. to like or match, I have to resubscribe… hmm…
Another obvious manipulation by Hinge (and the other apps) is I’m almost 100% positive they artificially limit who they show you by stacking the deck with a bunch of profiles of women they know haven’t logged into the service in awhile. Basically priming the pump with “possibility” to keep you engaged; diluting the active profiles and spreading any likely match possibilities out over time.
It’s things like these two realizations that made me decide these apps are not in existence to help you find a match. They’re incentive is the same as Facebook, engagement. You matching means you no longer using the app and that’s bad for business.
Yeah, I honestly think this is an overly complex analysis that’s genuinely simple in reality:
You get out what you put in.
We spend attention bandwidth to those we relate to. Those that don’t, we naturally let those text messages go unattended. We don’t think about it, we just naturally decline to foster any meaningful connection or development of one to those we don’t relate with.
It’s not all that smart sounding list of reasons, it’s simply subconscious behaviors that have created this reality.
I don’t understand how this rating is calculated? The fide profile doesn’t have any recorded matches or statistics on him, just the rank number that I can see.
I think there’s a future where phones are all-in-one devices. When in my pocket, it’s a screen-first mobile device. When plugged into a dock, it’s a full-blown MacOS machine. I could then have “profiles” for personal and work environments.
I think these devices are going to become more tied 1:1 to our individual identities. Where my phone is a digital extension of my self. Acting as my wallet, gov ID, work ID, stores any info about me (or the private keys to get at the data in the cloud). Etc.
It’s really already to that point, it’s just not fully baked the way I describe above. But I think it’s highly likely to be exactly this eventually.
As a person in IT, I see an obvious change where hardware is still separated for people from person and work. people say they don’t want work on their personal devices, but then they’re the first to break that rule. Convenience is key.
So I think the solve is the same we’ve done elsewhere: 1 hardware device, multiple virtual spaces on top, all tied to the me that is the ID.
> I think there’s a future where phones are all-in-one devices. When in my pocket, it’s a screen-first mobile device. When plugged into a dock, it’s a full-blown MacOS machine. I could then have “profiles” for personal and work environments.
This is exactly what Microsoft attempted with Windows Phone. It worked but didn't work. It worked just fine for application that had an adaptive UI that works just a good on the desktop as on a small touch screen. starting a desktop app on the phone was not a good experience.
Yes, Apple could have a better shot at getting this to work if the phone and laptop had the exactly same hardware and because of their appstore. But having the same hardware in both devices is not enough. They would also for need to turn the MacOS into a gigantic iPhone with a touch Screen.
They would have to recreate their own version of Windows (8) 11's vision and implement an UI that works both with mouse/keyboard and touch.
I bet they are working on this, but I suspect we are many years away before we see a MacBook with a touch screen.
I use ‘Paste’ on my Mac and I LOVE it. Search, easy hot key to a reference window, unlimited history that syncs to iCloud, paste as plain text and I can exclude certain things like my password manager.
Isn’t the real value of things like OnlyFans the marketplace and discovery for consumers?
If you remove that component, then it’s just a personal content blog with a paywall, which is not exciting at all.
I don’t intend to be rude, I’m just genuinely curious to the motivation in creating stuff like this when it completely misses the value of the product it mimics.
I was unaware anyone used OF itself as a discovery platform. I didn't even know about OF until I clicked through to someone's Twitter and they had a link to their page. It seems like Twitter and TikTok (obviously in a more SFW format) are much better at providing discovery than OF.
You're right, but I don't think that's the main issue at hand. The first problem to solve is how to not let the credit card companies decide what the creator's content is, so NOF does that through self-hosted and cryptocurrency payments. Whether this value is needed by the market is of course yet to be proven.
Unlike OF, content creators can set up their own NOFs to aggregate their influence across platforms, and the market is determined by the set-up person themselves.
BTW，although it is not stated on the page, NOF is actually not just a paywall. it uses smart contracts behind it to do real-time sharing, thus ensuring the revenue of each columnist. In the previous version, we also designed the function that columnists can publish their own tokens and contracts, but the interface was not developed because it was too complicated for use.
However, from the feedback so far, people want to support more cryptocurrencies rather than splitting security, so we are indeed considering "degrading" to a simple paywall.
Banks don’t want to support porn because of the risk in contributing to the massive sex exploitation problem the world has. The revenue they make simply isn’t worth the PR risk. Is not like bankers have a higher moral compass.
How do these way early startups put together such animated, great looking website / landing pages?
Are one of you founders just brilliant front end designers? Is there some kind of easy/cheap service I’m missing out there? Did you just spend some crazy money on getting the page custom done for you?
This isn’t just some theme that was altered for you. The graphics, animations and layout are all matching to your message in a customized way in both copy and content.
You know how everyone shouts learn to code? To coders/founders I say learn to design. Or give more of your equity than you think you should to a designer. The nice thing about design is its pretty easy to see examples and references and most designers would actually be happy to work at a start up from the beginning as part of the founding team, its just that in a lot of the tech world designers aren't viewed as integral until after the fact and really the track record of design-led startups and your reaction to ones that are polished out of the gate should indicate otherwise. Contrary to what OP said /u/iMuzz isn't really even a unicorn designer, there's plenty just like them, you've just got to decide its important and find a way to invest time, money, or effort.
The face to face conversation is a double edged sword. In my experience if you have a satellite office then the face to face conversations at one office don't make it to the other one so you can't really take advantage of globalization.
For example, you are in Office A and there is a major issue you can huddle in a room but if someone in office B is involved then all of a sudden they are listening to you from an conference audio that barely comes across, or most likely completely left out of the conversation.
I think the companies which will take advantage of globalization will be able to have everyone work remote or if in office only meet from their desks, which defeats the purpose of in person, with global employees performing support work but being fully engaged.
As a person that’s been in development, devops, secops, network engineering and now co-runs a software backed IT service startup focused on SMB’s, this doesn’t actually work well IRL in my opinion.
Hosted desktops require a consistent, reliable data connection. Which means any time mobility (car, plane, train, etc) is on the agenda or if an employee needs to work from an area without 100Mbps or better broadband (rural), work or access to work is complicated at best. Further, accessing that hosted environment still requires some kind of user hardware anyway.
Dedicated hardware per employee is still the best route in my opinion. At least then, if data connectivity is nowhere to be found, they can still get stuff done.
Another obvious manipulation by Hinge (and the other apps) is I’m almost 100% positive they artificially limit who they show you by stacking the deck with a bunch of profiles of women they know haven’t logged into the service in awhile. Basically priming the pump with “possibility” to keep you engaged; diluting the active profiles and spreading any likely match possibilities out over time.
It’s things like these two realizations that made me decide these apps are not in existence to help you find a match. They’re incentive is the same as Facebook, engagement. You matching means you no longer using the app and that’s bad for business.