The existing dating websites do not have a reason to change—their current websites generate profit.
Existing dating apps (presumably) make a profit now, but they could be making more profit if they were better, through a combination of pulling market share from their competitors, and bringing more people into the dating app scene (if dating apps had less of a reputation for being dystopian hellscapes).
There could be disincentives if they were too good at it (instantly pairing up all of their users into perfect marriages so the dating market dries up), but if they were really that good they could just charge a lot and front-load their profits, and they’d still be incentivized to do it before their competitors do.
How would a prospective user tell which dating site offer is genuine and which are just scams that also are charging a lot?
It’s not like anyone, even the bonafide sites, could provide hard evidence of successful long term relationships, since that would be a huge privacy issue.
Users would find out about apps the same way they do now: Hearing about the apps from friends and/or media. If one dating app was much better than the others, people would hear about it from their friends, and people who don’t have friends in the dating pool would hear about it from the media.
I also don’t think it’s a privacy issue to provide aggregate data about this. A dating app could run surveys asking people if they’re still dating a person they met on the app. The harder part would be getting people to actually answer, but there’s incentives you could try (like take a deposit and refund it if the person answers the survey), and if your app is actually life-changingly good it will be easier to convince users to take 5 minutes to help you out.
Existing dating apps (presumably) make a profit now, but they could be making more profit if they were better, through a combination of pulling market share from their competitors, and bringing more people into the dating app scene (if dating apps had less of a reputation for being dystopian hellscapes).
There could be disincentives if they were too good at it (instantly pairing up all of their users into perfect marriages so the dating market dries up), but if they were really that good they could just charge a lot and front-load their profits, and they’d still be incentivized to do it before their competitors do.
How would a prospective user tell which dating site offer is genuine and which are just scams that also are charging a lot?
It’s not like anyone, even the bonafide sites, could provide hard evidence of successful long term relationships, since that would be a huge privacy issue.
Users would find out about apps the same way they do now: Hearing about the apps from friends and/or media. If one dating app was much better than the others, people would hear about it from their friends, and people who don’t have friends in the dating pool would hear about it from the media.
I also don’t think it’s a privacy issue to provide aggregate data about this. A dating app could run surveys asking people if they’re still dating a person they met on the app. The harder part would be getting people to actually answer, but there’s incentives you could try (like take a deposit and refund it if the person answers the survey), and if your app is actually life-changingly good it will be easier to convince users to take 5 minutes to help you out.