If you are a startup, you cannot create a popular app in a crowded marketplace by being scrupulous about best practices.
Match owns almost all of the dating-app market, and they have extremely deep pockets to buy/extinguish competition with.
Because of the consolidated nature of the market, and the winner-takes-all nature of the industry, I really believe that it is impossible for a new entry to gain popularity and focus on hard problems like security.
This is fundamentally a problem with capital allocation and incentives. There's not much that a small team can do about it.
Match owns almost all of the dating-app market, and they have extremely deep pockets to buy/extinguish competition with.
Because of the consolidated nature of the market, and the winner-takes-all nature of the industry, I really believe that it is impossible for a new entry to gain popularity and focus on hard problems like security.
This is fundamentally a problem with capital allocation and incentives. There's not much that a small team can do about it.