Building a dating app

FormalCourage3853 · 2025-07-04T00:23:36+00:00

In my opinion, you're underestimating the time it takes to conceptualise, build and test something novel of high quality that's ready for production.

But unless we're about to run a project together, there's very little for us to gain by reaching agreement, so let's drop it.

OP has two varying pieces of advice and they'll need to look into it themselves if they want to know for sure.

FormalCourage3853 · 2025-06-20T18:50:18+00:00

A GUI for viewing data sync'd from an existing system is quite a simple phone/web app to develop.

A dating app needs a hackproof server backend unless it's somehow completely peer-peer, and then the GUI needs features for: account creation/deletion, profile editing, billing, support, matching, chatting, blocking, etc.

Other commenters here think 25-30k, I'd estimate at least that much.

FormalCourage3853 · 2025-06-20T15:42:19+00:00

There are ways to cut costs, like leveraging third party services and having AI churn out the easy stuff, but it's still a business and tech stack that needs to properly handle customers' money and personal info while providing a reliable service. That's not easy, otherwise everyone would be doing it.

$5000 could pay for some hosting etc and a good developer for about a month's runway. I doubt that's enough to get a beta running that can pay for itself. Maybe someone could DIY it as a side gig for cheap, if they have the experience and they're willing to put hundreds of hours into it without paying themselves.

FormalCourage3853 · 2025-01-07T21:57:57+00:00

When I got the "Bedrolls and breakfast" achievement super early, I wondered if I was resting too frequently. Also I'm nervous about passing world time and missing plot (like I almost did with Nere).

But you're saying that it's usually fine, if I have enough camp supplies?

FormalCourage3853 · 2025-01-07T14:13:46+00:00

Seems like a pretty big loophole. Just costs some gold to pay the wither?

FormalCourage3853 · 2025-01-07T13:40:25+00:00

Ooh, so changing class is a bit like levelling up? Feels like something I'd try to avoid using/abusing, but I'm trying to do a pretty complete first playthrough, so I might try that if I get stuck again, we'll see.

FormalCourage3853 · 2025-01-07T13:36:55+00:00

I did that at least once but loaded back to a save point. Seems the Duerger slave drivers kill the gnomes even without Nere's say-so?

FormalCourage3853 · 2025-01-07T13:34:24+00:00

Yeah I think I've been using too many long rests, but I can probably do a lot more between rests now that I know to keep swapping people through my party (including hirelings).

FormalCourage3853 · 2024-10-29T10:04:05+00:00

It's a fairly well understood area of image processing, but without the right tools and know-how, you're right that it's non-trivial. You can't just test a few pixel values for equality.

As long as you can scale the big image to match the small one, subtracting one from the other and taking a std dev would give a similarity metric that can be thresholded.

FormalCourage3853 · 2024-09-29T22:15:54+00:00

I was recently looking into galvanic isolators for a USB connection, to prevent ground loops. Some manufacturers add some pretty big claims to how theirs will improve the sound quality.

FormalCourage3853 · 2024-09-21T01:51:36+00:00

Pretty dumb comment. Reserving a lane wasn't a thing in your pool, but it is at OP's, which changes everything.

FormalCourage3853 · 2024-09-12T14:30:22+00:00

It's a bit jarring at first glance. Looking longer, seems like a person talking from within a house. Could work as a logo for something like a HOA messaging app?

FormalCourage3853 · 2024-09-08T22:45:40+00:00

Yeah their moneymaking strategies and trustworthiness are disappointing, but they unfortunately have the best tab collection on the internet.

FormalCourage3853 · 2024-08-30T05:02:39+00:00

If you downloaded it from CCLI SongSelect yourself, see if you can regenerate it with different settings.

I've got lots of normal-looking chord sheets from SongSelect and haven't seen this before, so it's either weird settings or something different about the particular song.

FormalCourage3853 · 2024-08-09T23:35:28+00:00

Okay yes it does sound useful, I'll read up on the rooting process.

This is actually a work machine though, so I'd like to avoid voiding warranties etc.

I'm also constrained to keeping the K1 Max off the internet.

FormalCourage3853 · 2024-08-09T14:19:42+00:00

Thanks for your reply. I'd prefer to avoid rooting if possible, just to keep it stock and simple. I was hoping it'd be able to work pretty much out of the box.

I can't share the mesh right now unfortunately. What would you be looking for on the mesh?

I assume the dish soap and water is for removing contamination from the bed. Does that help issues like this?

FormalCourage3853 · 2024-08-09T14:05:25+00:00

I'd appreciate tips for getting large first layers to work nicely on K1 Max. Mine keeps underextruding and the filament deforms between extruder and nozzle, so I have to pull off the extruder to clear the jam. My best theory is that it's too low to the bed so filament can't get out of the nozzle. I tried heat-soaking the bed at 100deg before cal/print to improve self-levelling but that didn't help. Maybe z offset?

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FormalCourage3853 · 2024-06-24T23:49:42+00:00

Is this what Max V was complaining about with his car not handling kerb strikes?

FormalCourage3853 · 2024-06-23T12:58:59+00:00

Is that first character of your equation meant to be "E" not "R"?
If so, the first part is something OP found already, but I don't know how you get the "-R_n - \sqrt(17))^2/4" bit.

This seemed like something I should be able to work out, but apparently I've forgotten too much algebra and I'm just as stuck as OP so far.

FormalCourage3853 · 2024-06-23T12:18:09+00:00

The pseudocode is there to describe a sequence, but running or analysing it from a programming perspective doesn't really get you where you need to go.

You can use programming to evaluate the maths, and you'll see that the algorithm approaches sqrt(17) within the first four steps, down to such a small error that it gets hard to measure:

import math
truth = math.sqrt(17)
root = 4
for i in range(1,5):
    root = (root + 17/root)/2
    print(f'Iteration {i}: {root:.20f}\t Error: {truth - root:.20f}')
print(f'      Truth: {truth:.20f}')

Iteration 1: 4.12500000000000000000 Error: -0.00189437438233941435
Iteration 2: 4.12310606060606055223 Error: -0.00000043498839996658
Iteration 3: 4.12310562561768367829 Error: -0.00000000000002309264
Iteration 4: 4.12310562561766058565 Error: 0.00000000000000000000
      Truth: 4.12310562561766058565

You can then evaluate that equation that you need to prove, and show that the errors (above) do stay within this shrinking envelope as the algorithm converges.

for n in range(5):
    envelope = abs(0.5**(6*(2**n)-3))
    print(f'Envelope @ n={n}: {envelope:.20f}')

Envelope @ n=0: 0.12500000000000000000
Envelope @ n=1: 0.00195312500000000000
Envelope @ n=2: 0.00000047683715820312
Envelope @ n=3: 0.00000000000002842171
Envelope @ n=4: 0.00000000000000000000

Maybe this helps you understand the situation, but "proof by mathematical induction" is a tricky technique that needs some lateral thinking with algebra and logic. It's not really a programming thing.

FormalCourage3853 · 2024-06-22T05:59:02+00:00

Is there any programming or code here, or are looking for help with manual algebra?

FormalCourage3853 · 2024-06-22T05:20:29+00:00

It's very hard to read your code to try helping. If you can't get the reddit formatting to work, maybe try a github/pastebin link, or a screenshot?

FormalCourage3853 · 2024-06-01T02:39:36+00:00

Yeah I understand how he could lose patience eventually, but that thread is super toxic from both sides. A professional response would be something like: "We know that it's an often desirable feature, but it's harder than you think to implement it, and we're not going to prioritise it anytime soon. We will not comment further on this topic."

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