We are a recently founded dating startup focused on competitive matchmaking. We just came out of an accelerator with our MVP built and are a couple weeks away from our launch. Looking to get feedback and thoughts on interest. Have been trying to build an audience prior to our launch on ProductHunt and now here as well. Looking for any opinions and feedback even if it's shitting on the concept.
The main idea is that everyone signs up as a matchmaker and swipes right or left on matches between two daters, either on the general public or specifically for friends/family. Basically "crowdsourcing" dating and having everyone vote on other people's matches. Daters are given cards to swipe on in order of most upvoted, so they get feedback that X amount of people looked into them + thought they would be a good match. Matchmakers would gain a sort of "elo" and climb up and down on their city's leaderboards to make the matchmaking more gamified and provide an incentive for it, and then daters can send matchmaking requests to the top matchmakers from there.
Our thoughts on the benefits were:
-This expands the userbase to include non-singles and helps against user churn found on other apps
-Daters don't have to do any work other than making a complete profile
-Is less demoralizing and objectifying for daters, as well as hopefully provides better insight b/c people are usually pretty bad at judging themselves
-Matchmakers are incentivized to make good matches because bad matches are penalized on the leaderboard which should hopefully translate to them holistically looking at people's compatibility
-Hopefully the matchmaking swiping game is fun and engaging which keeps people on the app and engaged with
Here's our website and ProductHunt link:
https://quivr.date/
https://www.producthunt.com/products/quivr-2