Full psychological profile, criminal background check, NRA membership status.

Make everyone verify their photos. There really is no upside to having unverified people. And it should help cut down on the cat phishing that’s going around.

Don’t make people pay for a subscription and then have to pay more to interact with other people. Bumble does this with compliments and it’s annoying.

If you do swiping, in addition to undoing swiping left, let us undo swiping right. Sometimes we mistakenly swipe right when we meant to scroll. It sucks giving people on the other end false hope, just to end up being ignored.

One thing I really hate (and love) about bumble is that it uses your current location to show you people nearby. The one thing I hate about that is I can’t say only search where people live, so I get a lot of people who live out of state but may be visiting nearby (it also sucks because I live near an airport). Having the option to switch between two different location searches (proximity and living location) would be a game changer.

One thing bumble does right that I haven’t seen anywhere else is that they have their app split into three states: dating, friends, and business. I don’t use the business side, but I’d like to see more apps cater to helping people find legit friends too.

Also I’m a programmer as well, and if you’re interested, I’d love to help. I’ve been tinkering with the idea of a friend finding app myself.

I want to search for people by interests not just swipe through faces 😞

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Another thing that I thought of would be to use open router service's driving directions API to determine distance between potential matches. Using great circle distance or boxing to determine distance is misleading, since straight lines will always be shorter distance than the curvy and windy roads in real life.

Federated would be cool, or some kind of decentralised system.

A front-camera picture is taken every time you open the app and is automatically set as your profile picture.