Building Soulmate with AI – Cory Etzkorn
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From idea to app.
When I first started building Soulmate this summer, I didn’t take it very seriously. Everyone has an idea for a novel dating app. Why is my idea special? Who am I to build this? I certainly had a lot of ideas. I’d been writing them down for almost 10 years. Pain points with existing apps. Incentive structures that were totally misaligned. Design choices that turned people into consumable products locked behind paywalls. Pay a little extra to see the “good” people. Truly horrific. Around this time, I also started taking a lot of baths. Long baths. Sometimes up to four hours. I’d set ChatGPT nex
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