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I think there's an opportunity to build a dating app that treats dating as an assignment problem[0], rather than a browsing experience. Assume we have a heterosexual and monogamous dating pool of 50 men and 50 women. If they were to rank or rate each other some people will be objectively attractive, but there will also be subjective differences based on individual preferences. Using an algorithm it should be possible to come up with the best combination of couples that maximizes each male/female's subjective attractiveness to each other.

Of course an actual dating app would need to be a bit more complicated than this, but I do think there's the potential to build a something around this concept.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assignment_problem




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