Great idea! I’m here to help if u want.

@dragon5232 Don't like PHP?

Im here to date :) and help to get a better chance at dating :p

@dragon5232 Different use cases. I'd use PHP for the API, Node for the websocket system (real time event based)

@MisterArie The second part you said is *literally* a reason for me!

@linuxxx I always try to find out how the match making algos work on apps like Tinder.

@MisterArie I've used them for a little but I'm not sure how the data is used so I quit them :)

If you are gonna use laravel, then count me in

To put it short, I'd love to get a girlfriend and when every dating site doesn't come close to what I want to see in a dating site, fuck it, I'll develop one myself (and possibly with other people as well).

@linuxxx make a dating site with blackjack and hookers.

@marcus5914 Never worked with it, people told me it's easy to use but after a few days I gave up!

@linuxxx it's a Futurama joke.

@marcus5914 oh. You are talking about laravel. Lol. I gave up WordPress after finding laravel

@marcus5914 Fuck wordpress anyways!

If it doesn't use PHP I may help ~

"with privacy in mind"

And exactly how? I cant see how it would work

Why is PHP such a faux pas? It’s actually evolved quite nicely over the years.... but meh. Doesn’t really matter much I guess.

Also, how would the project handle the issue of like a 1:25 female to male ratio? That seems like an elephant in the room for a dev dating site, doesn’t it?

I’m not single, but I get the allure or wanting to date someone like minded; someone you might even be able to do projects together with as well as date and be best friends... but just wondering if there are any ideas on the gender disparity?

@agaskins guys dating guys should solve that problem. Not sure if that is a feature we can force on our users though xD.

We ran out of girls so we matched you with this guy. Go explore your bisexual side.

I see users complaining already

@Linux maybe privacy as in the dating site isn’t just another ruse to collect and sell its user’s information to advertisers. I dunno, just guessing here really.

@MisterArie haha I love that idea! Gotta stay pragmatic!

@Charon92 okcupid was an amazing site back when I was dating too... it’s one of those sites that is so good you almost hate to stop being active in it when you find a significant other lol

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I'm interested in how that turns out ^^

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@Nanos you made me remember something. Most people in IT are men, only around 25%* are women. Someone knows what can be done about that?

*number depends on what you consider IT and your source

Tip:

Don't use SQL for a dating site.

Use Neo4j, or any other graph DB. Feals harder at the start, but makes a lot of things easier.

@Linux Already commented about that a little up :)

@Root It'll deffo be written (maybe partly) in php! It's fast and works great imo :)

Id like to help as a sysadmin :)

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I can work on it

Maybe throw up a slack server?

What will the age restrictions be for users of this platform? I know devrant has some young devs

@linuxxx if u ever start this am all in. Ready to code I know both PHP and nodejs I think it would be a wonderful experience.

@linuxxx i am a backender as well but am good with DBs, so keep that in mind in case you ever think about starting this off. I have some interesting ideas as well.

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@Nanos if you remove 25% of the men you have ~56% men, 25% women and 19% empty. scale that up and you get about ~70% men ~30% women. (maths isnt 100% accurate but should be about that)

As far as I know, @dfox and @trogus worked for a dating company, met there, and made devRant. If wrong, nvm

@irene I'm working on some ideas. Privacy doesn't have to mean no sharing at all.

I too am interested to see how this will work with privacy in mind. Wouldn't a random stranger that you are matched against be able to see your details?

My dot is placed.
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@LrdShaper I'm thinking out a matching system with privacy very much in mind and I've actually got an idea :)

@linuxxx most of us are dying to find out :)

@LrdShaper Something with hashes, salts, redis databases and encryption :)

Lookig forward to checking this out. Maybe take Jodel as an inspiration?

I'm still a PHP beginner but maybe I can help out a bit, sounds like an interesting project :)

@irene As I mentioned earlier, encryption for example.

@fuzzy-logic I have no clue yet!

@irene Yes it can work that way. Just not like the traditional dating sites work but that's also not what I'm aiming for :)

I'll be happy to help. Sounds great

I'm down to help if you want to get this off the ground. I know a few friends who could benefit from this

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I can help with PHP.

📌not so sure about PHP, but I can help with React, React Native app, and Express server.
BTW, Dev girl is like unicorn🦄, they are so rare! I hope this thing won't go sideways, n become a Dev gay dating site.👍

@sunfishcc I wouldn't say dev girls are rare, but we surely lack visibility.

@rising once I meet a girl who knows octocat is the best cat. So sad to let her go 😭

I really want to see this happen, I could help with php, sql ... although no experience in group projects etc

I wouldn't mind helping you guys out.

@Linux BTW privacy is an illusion from human kind 😉

Love how this kind of began descending into an almost /r/niceguys rant 😂

This would be an interesting project though, but yes, you need to overcome the gender imbalance (for heterosexual pairings), as well as ensuring that any biases along lines of attractiveness / self moderation etc etc are dealt with.

With the whole Facebook dating thing, maybe it's time to look at this again. At least for the devs.

I'm in if it's still on.
- front end developer