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For what it's worth, there was a new yorker article from around the middle of 2011 where the feature is online dating. One of the researchers they interviewed concluded that guys are basically looking for girls that laugh at their jokes, and girls are basically looking for guys to make them laugh (to the point that they joked their next dating service would be called girlsthatlaughatmyjokes.com and guysthatmakemelaugh.com)

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I worked on something similar to the MVP shown (not about jokes specifically, but a "gimic" dating site). The real problems have to do with gender imbalance, men shotgunning messages, and the fundamental issue with these gimic sites: attractivness is all that matters online. It really doesn't matter how witty you can make yourself appear (which, I'm not sure this site allows for that? seems to just see if 2 users have the same sense of humor, not how funny someone is), if you're not attractive. Where in the real world, personality and confidence can have a much larger effect. The unspoken assumption is not that people want girlsthatlaughatmyjokes.com and guysthatmakemelaugh.com, It's hotgirlsthatlaughtatmyjokes.com and hotguysthatmakemelaugh.com.

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