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Josh Israel
@tanktopjosh · Co-Founder, Pāpr
@bentossell Fair enough. To speak to your point about why someone who isn't ranked as high as someone else would use the app. Well, there's two ways we see it. 1 - Everyone, every night gets at least one match. So they do come back for that out of curiosity and a potential chance to make a match. 2 - Your ranking is consistently changing as new people sign u… See more
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Ben Tossell
@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
What a shame...
Products like this make me sad. Is it actually going to help anyone? Doubt it. Will it make people feel bad about themselves? Most likely.
Why do we continue being so shallow?
I totally understand that first step of attraction to someone is most likely their looks. But to then add a 'popularity' contest to it. Assign 'winners' and 'loser… See more
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Josh Israel
@tanktopjosh · Co-Founder, Pāpr
Co-founder of FRIVIL here. I'm 1/2 of our American-born co-founding team that is currently residing in India (long story, don't ask). The idea behind FRIVIL is straightforward - find out how attractive you are & match with people as attractive as you. How does it work? Simple, you tap on who you find more attractive 👆, get to see how attractive you are … See more
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If I could downvote an app, I'd downvote this. I agree wholeheartedly with Ben: this is just a lousy thing.
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Josh Israel
@tanktopjosh · Co-Founder, Pāpr
@bentossell Fair enough. To speak to your point about why someone who isn't ranked as high as someone else would use the app. Well, there's two ways we see it. 1 - Everyone, every night gets at least one match. So they do come back for that out of curiosity and a potential chance to make a match. 2 - Your ranking is consistently changing as new people sign u… See more
John Ceniza
@j_ceniza · Indie iOS Dev | AppDeco.co
So unfortunate. This is pretty much the culmination of everything I don't want our dating culture to be.