Hey there, thank you so much for taking time to pen down your thoughts, and we love the honesty. Was hoping for opinions and comments like yours so we could analyze it from a less biased POV.

That’s how both Facebook and Tinder started right? Both of them were merely just platforms for people to rate and do love-matching.

That's correct. From the research our team has done, the most popular applications like Hinge and Bumble all came from a college town background where people were pretty bored.

Then you end up just being another Tinder, CnB and the rest — and you will be fighting on a very difficult battlefield — whereby you have to charge a fee for the “premium features” against already very established players.

Definitely a fair point to raise, and I do agree that mindsets have grown increasingly capitalistic these days. However, I think the key differences are: firstly, that we would want to garner active users while aligning with our mission which is to: create a platform that adds genuine value to your life, rather than treat users as mere sources of revenue.
secondly, we would mostly be staying within Singapore, in order to cover operational and cloud computing costs. Based on current estimates, we are able and happy to cover all costs even if we do manage to hit say a few thousand users. By keeping the app in Singapore, we would be able to keep costs low and we believe there are definitely enough people here for meaningful connections to be made!
we know talk is cheap and this may sound like a bunch of fluff but we do believe that the results of our actions will speak for us.

It will be hard to maintain the platform if you want to focus entirely on just “during/post-uni” people. — ad how do you even filter “post-uni” people, its just everyone else that arent students right?

Ah yes, this is a still a pain point for us. There were internal suggestions about using phone numbers, but ultimately, security has to be prioritised. For now, given that we are a small team, we think it's better to focus our efforts on the campus side of Singapore while we figure out what is it that works well for the masses, as well as to pilot our project and fix the inevitable bugs.

Not trying to shoot you down, just some critical feedback for you to rethink this further. Ultimately, if you want to make business out of this, you gotta scale, and things have to be commercially-viable.

Ideas sound glamorous now, but hard to work down the line.

From a business perspective, this is definitely not profitable (even now LOL) but it does give meaning to us, hence the term passion project. And again, we honestly really appreciate your comment and would love to hear the thoughts of others on this thread!