The term ‘Love Languages’ is probably dubious for you to use for both trademark and copyright reasons. But the concepts are good ones, so you can call them ‘expressions of love’ or something like that and list them with these one-word descriptions which I came up with and you are…

The book ‘Algorithms to Live By’ has a whole section on variants of the secretary problem. One striking thing about it is that it never even considers algorithms where you’re okay with settling for the second best, even as some defined fraction of the utility of getting the very best…

There are directly conflicting goals with what you want to happen with dating profiles. On the one hand, you want profiles to be as informative as possible, to help users make better decisions who they might be interested in. …

On this blog I talk a lot about how one could make a better dating app, but in practice I’d much rather you fix your app than I make a competitor. Less work for me. You can get to a state which doesn’t suck following this simple 4-step process. Every…

In my previous post about time intervals I skipped over one important thing: How should men be shown women who have said yes to them? When women see men initially the only pre-filter should be their stated age/area preferences plus that the men are recently active so traditional swiping is…

There’s a whole industry of giving dating advice to bitter young men. Within this industry there are multiple schools all of which hate each other. A lot of this is because many of the people in this industry are, ahem, not the most sympathetic of individuals. …

When monetizing a dating app by far the most material thing you can offer your paying users is extra promotion. The number of variations on this is very limited by the needs of building a healthy community: If you allow anyone to break through the rules you’ve put in place…

The received wisdom of writing apps these days is that it’s all about measuring engagement and using that to optimize your use experience. The more you can get your users to engage, the more money you’ll get out of them. …

Many years ago there was a story of an elementary school which took the students on a field trip to the local hospital. At the end of the field trip the hospital gave doctor’s caps to all the boys and nurse’s caps to all the girls. This being in the…