The Tyranny of the Marginal User - by Ivan Vendrov

why consumer software gets worse, not better, over time

The Tyranny of the Marginal User why consumer software gets worse, not better, over time Ivan Vendrov Sep 14, 2023 956 83 128 Share A friend and I were recently lamenting the strange death of OKCupid. Seven years ago when I first tried online dating, the way it worked is that you wrote a long essay about yourself and what you were looking for. You answered hundreds of questions about your personality, your dreams, your desires for your partner, your hard nos. Then you saw who in your area was most compatible, with a “match score” between 0 and 100%. The match scores were eerily good. Pretty mu

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