No, OkCupid, we don't want to "talk"

Honestly this felt like a very arrogant post. OKCupid may not be perfect, but it's <i>far and away</i> the best site out there, and loved by most of its users.<p>Furthermore the founder wasn't a dick to you in his comment. So all in all, I'm not sure trashtalking him/OKC is going to help you.

Wow. I was iffy on the OP to begin with after he basically proclaimed that he had reinvented online dating by essentially cloning www.mysinglefriend.com, and this just confirms it.<p>This whole post smacks of arrogance. Essentially you want us to pat you on the back for giving a big, public “F you” to a competitor because you ASSUME that him wanting to chat means they want to acquire you? If this is how you act in casual online encounters then I’m starting to understand why online dating hasn’t worked out for you.

tldr Engineer from OkC invites company founder to coffee to chat about online dating, founder picks fight for page views

"Why do you think OkCupid messages exist? It's not actually for 'connecting', because who's on there looking for a penpal? "<p>My friend, to start with you should learn a little bit about women psychology...<p>Online dating != Picking up items in an online store

I will stake my reputation that the girl two up from the bottom left corner of blendr is "Good Girl Gina," but the image is flipped or something. For most of the dating apps it's pretty obvious how many accounts are fake.

What is the point of responding to a casual HN comment with a blog post, besides PR opportunity?

What fascinates me about the online dating market is that the optimal user experience is indirectly proportional to a customer's lifetime revenue in any site that is ad based or subscription based.<p>If a company was purely motivated by profit, I imagine that some clever use of ML would reveal an optimal ($ wise) timeframe for matching a user with their eventual mate (assuming their matching algorithm was perfect), and it wouldn't be 'as soon as possible'.<p>Too soon and you're missing valuable revenue, too late and the user gets frustrated and quits. Do companies do this? Probably not. As matching algorithms become more advanced and more people use online dating though...

Is any serious scammer going to be deterred by needing to obtain a facebook account with 50 friends?

Are they trying to get some bigger company to buy them? Facebook and Twitter are a bit scary already having so much data about everybody. Even though I'm pretty open how and who I date, it still feels more comfortable to keep it in my circle of friends and family.<p>Although I see the potential for this.

33.000 members in 4 days. Seems legit.

I stopped after one screen. It was completely incoherent. Do you have to be following this person's recent life story to know what this is supposed to be about?

Anyone interested in building an alternative to cupidwithfriends?<p>Email me.

Wow, I love how casually you exclude about half of the world from your little site.