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Some easy ones right off the bat: online extremism, public transit, housing, access to healthcare, chronic disease treatment. Online dating is pretty rough. I

Some easy ones right off the bat: online extremism, public transit, housing, access to healthcare, chronic disease treatment. Online dating is pretty rough. I need a company to get extremely serious about desktop Linux and charge me $100/yr for something that actually works. Yes. It’s okay to charge for copyleft software.

neiman1 5y ago
What issues do you face with online dating?
- jagger27 5y ago
  The “hook” is the worst part. It’s so hard to start a conversation from nothing and get it to stick in a meaningful way. People like to joke that those who treat Twitter like a dating app are misusing it, but I think it’s a better analog for real world dating than most things. Once you build a sufficiently big group of mutuals on Twitter and get to know them a little bit without the pressure of relationship expectations, sparks seem to happen so much more naturally and organically just as they might in a workplace or school setting. I don’t have much hope for online dating in its current form unless it gets to a level of AI invasiveness like in that one Black Mirror episode. Gatling gun dating just isn’t fun or effective.
  - neiman1 5y ago
    Strongly agree. Online dating can feel super unnatural & somewhat demeaning compared to organic convos, the typical meat market analogy seems apt. Funnily enough, I threw together a landing page a couple of days ago [1] to run Google Ads and gauge whether there's wider interest in a solution that would avoid you having to come up with a "hook" + reinvigorate those sparks you mention. The thought so far is that you'd fill out a pretty invasive character assessment that would be analysed by AI + professional matchmakers to set up one date a month for you with another user (who you won't see or speak to until you actually meet in person). [1] https://penthouses.date https://penthouses.date
timbit42 5y ago
All but the first one are solved in the richest countries, except the US.
- caskstrength 5y ago
  How is housing solved in other richest countries besides US?
codingmoh 5y ago
>I need a company to get extremely serious about desktop Linux and charge me $100/yr for something that actually works Could you briefly describe, what you'd be looking for?

neiman1 5y ago

What issues do you face with online dating?

jagger27 5y ago
The “hook” is the worst part. It’s so hard to start a conversation from nothing and get it to stick in a meaningful way. People like to joke that those who treat Twitter like a dating app are misusing it, but I think it’s a better analog for real world dating than most things. Once you build a sufficiently big group of mutuals on Twitter and get to know them a little bit without the pressure of relationship expectations, sparks seem to happen so much more naturally and organically just as they might in a workplace or school setting. I don’t have much hope for online dating in its current form unless it gets to a level of AI invasiveness like in that one Black Mirror episode. Gatling gun dating just isn’t fun or effective.
- neiman1 5y ago
  Strongly agree. Online dating can feel super unnatural & somewhat demeaning compared to organic convos, the typical meat market analogy seems apt. Funnily enough, I threw together a landing page a couple of days ago [1] to run Google Ads and gauge whether there's wider interest in a solution that would avoid you having to come up with a "hook" + reinvigorate those sparks you mention. The thought so far is that you'd fill out a pretty invasive character assessment that would be analysed by AI + professional matchmakers to set up one date a month for you with another user (who you won't see or speak to until you actually meet in person). [1] https://penthouses.date https://penthouses.date

timbit42 5y ago

All but the first one are solved in the richest countries, except the US.

caskstrength 5y ago
How is housing solved in other richest countries besides US?

codingmoh 5y ago

>I need a company to get extremely serious about desktop Linux and charge me $100/yr for something that actually works Could you briefly describe, what you'd be looking for?