• This installment of Mantic Monday focuses on attempted clever engineering solutions to romance.
• Date Recommendation Markets: Aella created a prediction market to find a partner.
• Matching Checkbox Sites: People can check off the people they would like to date and send it to a central database.
• Alas, Poor Luna: A cryptocurrency dating site that failed due to lack of women signing up.
• What Can Peter Thiel Teach Us About Dating?: Chicken-and-egg problem for social startups.
• This Week In The Markets: A prediction market about how many cold approaches a bit-more-desirable-than-average guy needs.
• Short Links: Justin Murphy offered arranged marriages to his followers, and a programmer fell in love with a chatbot.
Published February 14, 2023
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