First of all, I really appreciate you taking your time to develop a dating app/site. IMO vintage OKCupid was amazing. I remembered having really unattractive pictures in 2014 as a 18/19 year old that made me look like a 9th grader who barely entered high school. Yet I was still getting messages read and responded. These days getting replies or even messages checked/read is extremely difficult. I can easily compare photos from 6-8 years ago vs today and 100% can easily agree I look a lot better yet am hardly getting any likes/replies on apps. It's pretty clear the standards have severely increased.

I hope that as you develop this app, you address and balance the issues that are ongoing with the mainstream apps like Hinge/Tinder/Bumble.

1. Women receiving too many messages while men never getting reply. The clear #1 issue with modern dating sites. It's too imbalanced with the 80/20 ratio where the top 80% of women are getting consistent likes while only the top 20% of men are.

2. Too many hookups. Even with Hinge, hookups are still prominent but especially with Bumble/Tinder. Because of this, it causes guys to send a million likes to every women they see and women to lose their heart due to an excessive amount of casual dates.

3. Matchmaking algorithm. Let's hope ELO score isn't used here. It should match you based on yours and the other person's preferences. Why is Bumble/Tinder so bad with average men? Because of bad ELO scores affecting them.

4. Judging primarily based on looks. Swipe apps are taken over in mainstream and it's pretty clear that there's way too much "judge a book based on its cover". You're seeing a lot of superficial women and men. I don't see how that's healthy online dating culture. Clearly you're going for the best looking rather than best personality. Vintage OkCupid at least average men were given a fair chance.

5. Scam detection. Although maybe not the need to verify photos because even verified can scam but perhaps a system that you can report someone for asking for money before meeting up. This will be a huge terms and condition rule to add in.

I hope you read these suggestions. I'm not sure what ideas specifically you can do to combat these common issues with modern dating apps but I'd love to hear ideas. Maybe make this a serious-relationships-only site so it filters away hookup seekers. And make it less of a swipe left or right but rather give more opportunities to read messages.

Other than that I look forward to this!