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Ask HN: Thoughts on a Patreon-Style Crowdfunded Dating App?
Hi HN community,

I recently launched a unique dating app that's gaining traction, especially in Africa.

My app features video-based profiles and an AI chatbot assistant for user onboarding, enhancing the user experience right from the start.

One idea I was considering is incorporating a Patreon-style crowdfunding model.

This could allow users to support the app's development and access premium features, helping sustain and grow the platform while keeping it accessible and free to use.

Given our current success (most of our users are women, and the app is going viral in parts of Africa), I'd love to get your thoughts on this crowdfunding approach.

* Do you think a Patreon-style model makes sense for a dating app?

* What potential benefits or challenges do you foresee?

* How would you feel about supporting an app like this through crowdfunding?

Looking forward to your insights and feedback and if you’d like to try the app it's available on both the App Store and Google Play:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.realdatingapp.rn

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/real-dating-app-video-a-i/id6504808371

Thanks!
There was a thread for reporting on the incident, and another for the official follow-up. There's not much discussion to be had; most of these are witch-hunt posts.

He's certainly no perfect angel, but character assassination on HN will get flagged unless it's actually newsworthy.
Exactly this, they will probably pay a few pennies here and there to settle simple disputes out of courts and business will continue as usual. It's not like any of the governing bodies will intervene to punish these corporations. It's truly a sad state of affairs when those elected to protect the public serve the needs of mega corporations instead..
>Other factors were a high number of deaths, 405,512,

With such a population churn the chances of dying at sea while trying to run away don’t look that bad.
Try Krita, Darktable, Scribus and Blender.

You're comparing household name with household name. Commercial software has a marketing budget, but free software spreads more by word-of-mouth (or association with a big and processional organisation like GNU), so that's an apples-to-oranges comparison. GIMP isn't very good, as free software image editors go: Script-Fu, plugins, or UI familiarity are basically the only reasons to choose it these days.
Killing people who did nothing wrong always puts you on the right side.
It is 100% not monochromatic and that makes all the difference.

Here's one model I'm fairly familar with, having evaluated it for design-in to a product a few years back: https://www.lightstec.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Philips... (apologies for the non-authoritative link, their entire datasheet server appears to be down....)

Take a look at page 8 (PDF page 9), Figure 4, "Relative Spectral Distribution vs. Wavelength". Look at those spectral curves and what that phosphor really does. See that nice broad peak, that's pretty insensitive to the exact details? A little shift in the peak doesn't change the output much. And yet, they still bin white LEDs intensively!

These things just do not work with monochromatic emission in the orange. And the phosphor isn't even that good at low color temperatures (CCTs). Below about 2000K-2400K (ish), this approach doesn't work: the resulting LED looks like yellow trash, not like you'd expect (it should look something like a candle flame). So even phosphors can't get you down all that far in CCT. (There are probably expensive phosphors that can do it... but none were in mass production five or six years ago when I did a deep search.)
It does! We should all live in NYC!
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Did US sanctions cause this? Why or why not?
Nope, not even that, because believe it or not, sometimes not even the .tbl files have all of them :'). In fact, the only arch where IMHO syscalls make sense and are organized in a sane way is arm64 that doesn't even have a .tbl file. And not even the table in kernel memory is enough sometimes! Some are special handlers in syscall entry code (like the one I mentioned above). It's just a mess, hence why I sort of gave up at some point and for some "esoteric" syscall I just hardcode them.
For many CTO/CISO it is more important to have a good target to shift responsibility when things go awry than to have a reliable/secure system. A Big Brand is a good target, an open-source project like OpenBSD is not. I doubt any CTO will be fired for choosing Widnows+CrowdStrike (instead of Linux/BSD) despite many million losses.

"Nobody ever gets fired for buying IBM" is as true as ever at least in the corporate world.
We need regulations that create an environment for which those affected can directly seek retribution with full civil and criminal immunity.

I'm sure there are lesser measures that could work, but I'm exceedingly confident the above will be extremely effective.
The answer to both questions is robust organizational infrastructure. To be frank, I think a minimal linux system as a baseline OS serves most use cases better than a bare metal application, but many applications have self-contained update systems and can connect to networks. Self-repairable infrastructure is a necessity, both in terms of tooling and staffing, for any organization for which an outage or a breach could be catastrophic, and the rise of centralized, cloud-reliant infrastructure in these contexts should be seen as a massive and unacceptable risk for those organizations to take on. Organizations being subject to unpatched vulnerabilities and inability to manage their systems competently are direct results of replacing internal competency and purpose-built systems with general-purpose systems maintained and controlled by unaccountable distant tech monopolies
I vote for in-situ teleportation.
You can buy an amiga emulator now that will run on linux (or Mac, or Windows) if you want.
I visited Cuba several times between approximately 2005 and 2015.

The Cuban people I met were lovely and would give you the shirt off their back if you needed it, even though they might not possess many more of them.
South and Central Americans fall back to their catholic roots, rejecting the communism of their home country within two generations.
It’s important not to disregard that software engineers are often overruled by management or product when strict deadlines and targets exist.
Calling Go Functions from C++
Bear or pika.
> I'm not concerned about the crime

You may not be concerned about the crime, but many voters are. The author of the article you linked to also exhorts the Somali immigrant community to not engage in crime.

> because that seems like a somewhat higher tendency until the 2nd and 3rd generation is able to make it into established society.

History and data from various European nations suggest that some immigrant groups aren't able to integrate with the host society after multiple generations, and remain ghettoized with low employment and high crime rates (vastly higher than the native population, for certain categories of crime).

It's clear that the national interest is in accepting skilled immigrants who migrate legally and are able to integrate fully into the host society, a la Teddy Roosevelt's dropping of the hyphen. It is not desirable to have separate ethnic groups who "share the same language, culture and faith" distinct from the mainstream.
It'll be the next iteration, Sundar's signature edition.
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Sure but the thing US politicians are good at doing is by definition the status quo. So we have backed down from "we are in danger of losing democracy" to "the status quo is bad". I don't disagree that the status quo is bad.

There is a lot of hysteria in the media right now about the court. It is doing a lot of things that were avoided for political reasons in the past, and the reasons it isn't avoiding them now are also political. But it's not like it's operating outside of the law. For example Roe v Wade was always on shaky ground legally, it just aligned with people's (and my own) sense of morality so they liked it. If there is massive popular support for nationwide abortion legalization, Congress is free to pass that amendment, the court can't stop them. I am personally pro abortion but also pro Roe v Wade overturn because I think the rule of law is more important than any individual right. I would support an amendment on abortion, but obviously that isn't going to happen because not enough people do.

> The first order of business can be to get the Supreme Court to remove the two term limit for President.

Erm, can you explain how? There is zero legal basis for this. Supreme Court bad?
> In terms of gdp per capita Soviet russia was 33rd in the world in that year. Modern Russia is 52nd.

GDP was also calculated based upon prices in a free market. The problem being, if you don't have a free market, you don't have an efficient way of knowing if the "value" of the goods produced actually mattered. The Soviet Union massively overproduced goods that nobody wanted, as this was efficient for production. But in terms of quality of life, it didn't matter. Overabundances and shortages were the norm.
Not many people on this planet can claim to be responsible for an outage of this scale. What leads to this, and more importantly, what can be learned from this, deserves a discussion.
This seems like GCP's version of AWS Outposts Servers

https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/servers/

Does Azure have a similar option?
If you go to the public latrine at Ephesus today, it looks pretty awesome. It's out in the air. Nice views in all directions. If you can get over the communal nature of it, it seems like a fantastic spot to do your business.

In Roman times, public latrines were places of last resort. They were typically enclosed, poorly ventilated, and notorious for rats and explosions[1]. For most Romans, making it home to your own commode was vastly preferred.

This brings us to a funny quirk of roman home design. Toilets were usually located in kitchens and "flushed" with wastewater from the kitchen. In most homes these toilets were connected to cesspits that were periodically emptied, and not to the sewers.

[1]https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-europe/rats-e...
Morality and ethics fly out the window the minute cash enters the equation. It's very easy to appear to altruism and write heroic posts on X, it's another to apply them in practice.
It seems this muscle has atrophied in nearly every niche it once thrived:

neighborhood kids self organizing play, multigenerational households and family run businesses, boarding houses where personal spaces are shared with strangers, participation in civic clubs and churches (which was as much about business networking and social prestige as anything but still organized collective effort to worthy causes), self organized physical markets (like the grove in LA in the 30s), chambers of commerce, local business (cartels) parceling up their markets, barn raising, “culture scenes” like the west village in the 60s…

perhaps most saliently to me personally, the end of faculty led university management.
They're not all unskilled. Well-paying construction jobs, which used to be a path to the middle class, have been gutted (in the western US at least).
That's what security.txt is there for. They don't even have a robots.txt file.
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I live in Los Angeles, and anytime there’s a hit and run on the news, they nearly always use footage OF the footage. That is, the news cameraman will simply film the screen of the computer or TV playing back the footage. It drives me crazy that they never use the source material.
The USSR and China and prime examples of sanctioning vs opening up. One is still around and persucting its people and the other is on the dust bin of history. The problem with the Cuba sanctions is that a large chunk of countries aren't sanctioning Cuba. If everybody got behind the sanctions regime change would happen. Half assing it won't cut it.
> Did you want to freeze the US as it was circa 1950?

That's exactly what we're doing (in Europe and East Asia even more so than the U.S.) by opposing skilled migration. Increasing legal skilled migration is much more critical, though other concerns such as asylum rights for those fleeing from an oppressive government or a war-ravaged country also matter quite a bit.
Just call it what it is. You're not selling a "Patreon" model (where the platform mediates transactions) but a subscription service, where you are paid on a regular basis. Using other businesses (especially markedly different ones) as a point of comparison will scare your potential customers away.

As for paid dating apps... well, plenty of those exist already. If your app is free right now, I would not expect the majority of your current userbase to start paying for features.
True, but compile time warnings beat runtime checks every time. Well, as long as people turn the warnings into errors so that they cannot just be ignored.
I appreciate your call to action, but it should be noted that it was only one of many platform choices that had the failure. The bandwagon of corporate microsoft installs, cloud based storage, massive central management of endpoints, sub contractors sub contracting to sub sub contractors, all the executives greenlighting security agents based on what’s most popular. You’re absolutely right if you’re talking about the Microsoft business ecosystem. But note, the internet stayed up, nearly every SaaS platform and product of note stayed up. Because that craftsmanship is still alive in the linux devops culture movement. Microsoft has been directly or indirectly responsible for almost every major IT disaster. It’s not a coincidence or because there’s “so many more MS installs”… not anymore. It’s because they suck, and by extension everything related to them sucks.
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/07/17/travel/switze...
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As an aside, I absolutely love your app concept.

I wish there was a cryptographic solution that ensured that messages would be stored in an encrypted vault, re-encrypted every time I check in, and in a way that would take 60 days to decode to cleartext if I don't check in.
To pick on your airport example a bit… all of the times I’ve gotten to enjoy a busted in-seat entertainment system, I’ve found myself staring at a stuck Linux boot process. This goes well beyond the OS.
> Want a programming language in the middle? Python, Lua etc can be embedded straight away.

After using templating languages in Python, yes, I always want this when using LaTeX. And as of ~2 years ago when I last tried this, while sure, I could embed Python in the middle, the interface for interacting with LaTeX via the embedded Python was anemic enough to be not useful. Maybe something had changed in the last 2 years, but if so, it's not more mature.

Example: I wanted to have a daily meditation book, where \chapter{Title} would insert the dates in order with the title of the meditation, instead of chapter numbers, also inserting a table of contents entry with the dates. What I didn't want was to have to go through and change dates if I added a meditation in the middle, or swapped the order of meditations. I'm not picky, I would've been happy to use \section{Title} or \meditation{Title}, or script a solution.

What happened was I spent probably 6 hours of research and never found a solution integrated into LaTeX. I did eventually write a script in Python that naively parsed the chapter titles and changed them in-placed in the LaTeX code, but that meant I had to regenerate the dates as a separate task.

Note that this took me about 5 minutes to figure out with Typst's integrated scripting language.
If Russia is holding back, it seems like a strategic error. Why have they not brought in more conventional weaponry and personnel if it would bring them victory?

I would guess that NATO planners have been adjusting their assessment of what Russia is capable of when completely mobilized. The answer sure looks a lot like "way weaker than we imagined, pretty well ineffective in the face of significant resistance, the only reason to pay any attention them at all is they have ~half the nuclear weapons worldwide."
I am being serious. This is not a 100% war by any measure.
Oh. Bummer.
I’m a first time kimchi maker, used the a Baechu ( napa cabbage ) Kimchi recipe from “Fiery Ferments” ISBN-13 978-1612127286

Came out really good despite not having some of the ingredients because I’m disorganized (left out carrots, ginger, scallions). My Taiwanese neighbor suggested adding apple to sweeten it up a bit, cut the sour, and less Korean pepper flakes.. but I like mine spicy.

Working on a second batch now.

The book has a couple other kimchi recipes in addition to dozens of other fiery ferments.
It means that if you are in the market for an actual diamond, then you will be presented with a price and have no way of altering what the market price is.

If you want moissanite or something else, or dream of asteroid mining to flood the market on earth, that has nothing to do with anybody else in the market for diamonds.
It is just “syntactic sugar” but the idea is that it gives the compiler enough information to generate proper warnings if you do it wrong.
> text-only apps

What? Is that a common problem? And where are those text-only apps anyway? I have installed Termux and some vim app and a few interactive fiction games that are all text. Are those somehow causing trouble by not having enough graphics to look high quality enough for Google?
That’s a good shout - maybe storage business to find the radioisotope research! I keep hearing laundrettes are good conservative businesses too.
It’s super weird for you to come up with that “example” - Apple’s one of the few companies that lag on megapixels and work on improving quality instead of numbers.
I do want also to say that 2038 is coming fast and I hope I don’t have to eat my words about unix.
I think it's crucial to find out why this is happening. "Other than cell phones, I don’t have anything" is not good enough as a conclusion. It's the most obvious thing, but it could have numerous other reasons.

It should be possible to extend this research with other factors. There must be a few participants that rarely use smartphones and the internet. Do they show the different results?

If the source is the internet (social media, online videos, ...) we really need to learn more about this. What exactly makes it that harmful.
but that's the reality of writing software.

the problem is that no matter how sincere the promise of "I'll clean it up and release the code" is, it rings very hollow because few people realistically actually ever get there.

if a developer is so afraid of judgement that they can't release the code to something they want to release, we have a cultural problem (which we do), but the way forwards from that is to normalize that sharing code that is more functional than it is pretty is better than future promises of code.

as the saying goes, one public repo up on GitHub is worth two in the private gitlab instance
I'm glad they've finally learned to appreciate the conjoined triangles of success.
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International law isn't real. You can tell it's not real because if it were real there would be real repercussions for violating it. There aren't, so it isn't. It's just words made up for politicking and persuasion.
Then discuss it, in your organization, among customers of this clearly broken software. Unless the submission is genuinely newsworthy, it's going to usually get flagged because it's not news. Slandering mistakes like this is vitriolic and quite literally incapable of producing meaningful change.
Their hardware is called Azure Stack Edge:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-stack/edge/
Thank you! The easier way to do that is to PGP encrypt to the recipients' keys, or just give them a symmetric encryption key and use some online AES service to decrypt it.
Thank you for taking the time to update everyone on HN.

I've added your work to my reading list.
No you didn't. External audits and compliance forced you to install an EDR, said EDR had no option to defer this kind of update. Crowdstrike sold itself to the suits as said EDR. What do you do, ignore both your management and the security checklist given by the government?
At this point I just assume any "cybersecurity expert" that defends Microsoft's nonsense is a cop
> Who has to go out and visit each individual machine and update it each month so the MRI machine doesn't get bricked by some teen ransomware gang?

The manufacturer does. As I mentioned in my OP I help build the software for our field reps to go into hospitals and clinics to update our devices in a disconnected state. Most of the critical equipment we manufacture has this as a requirement since it can't be connected to a network for security reasons.

As for discharge orders, etc, I can't speak to that, but that's also not what I would consider critical. I'm talking about things like surgical robots, which can not be connected to a network for obvious reasons, especially during a surgery.
Please do! The more developers who turn this "I need to do it sometime" into "I've done it", the more users will come to F-Droid as well.
how many ransomware attacks have you been a a part of remediation for?
I think this research is based on hard facts and numbers, and not on the memories boomers tell about their youth.
Was the R prototype outputting HTML code? What React front end code of any value is the LLM extracting from the R prototype?

Other options to converting the code: call into the R code from the Go code. Or don’t let your prototype grow to 12 KLOC in a language you don’t intend to use in production.
Try running without Google play services sometime.

Google might not be gatekeepers, but there’s no practical way to opt out of having them poking around in your phone.
Cuba rarely stamps passports to avoid those problems. They give you a piece of paper with a stamp, that you return on your way out.
I believe you can run a command to point its font options to a directory.
That's just representative democracy, no?

I don't think adding a level to it would help, a new class of voter-politicians would soon emerge anyway, and they'd probably merge with "proper" political parties.
At minute 12:33 in this video it explains the 180-days rule and other details:

https://youtu.be/WgWK6_AYq_o?si=5aqdt7DW-gYd7XdN

it might not be completely cut off, but the embargo is harsh, especially for an island ot only 10M people
I don’t think you can equate being upset that people are destroying your land with an affirmation that these people do not want modern technology.

If your only understanding of modernity was intruder destroying your habitat, you’d feel the same.