Dating apps. Market-makers for partners when the village no longer introduces you.
It is a product you buy.
It exists to relieve Find a partner among strangers. That is the whole reason it is here: nothing enters this map without a human problem behind it.
It could not exist without Smartphones and internet, Cloud computing and data centres and AI models and inference. These are the quiet preconditions — remove any one and the solution stops working.
3 organisations in this map sell it, 3 of them publicly listed.
Its neighbourhood
Everything this entry connects to directly. Click any point to follow it.
The line back to a human being
2 hops from a person at a phase of life. The further a thing sits from the person, the more abstract it looks — and the more it tends to be mistaken for something that came from nowhere.
- SolutionDating apps
- FrictionFind a partner among strangers
- Life phaseHousehold formation
- Rooted inBelonging
- Rooted inReproduction
Relieves
Requires
Who sells it
| Organisation | Value | Type | Products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meta Platforms | $1.7T | public · META | Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp |
| Match Group | $8B | public · MTCH | Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid |
| Bumble | $0.7B | public · BMBL | Bumble, Bumble BFF, Badoo |