I've never used Tinder, but I've had multiple men tell me they swipe right (I think? whichever is "yes") on every women, and multiple women tell me the response rate from men who have swiped right on them is very low.

That doesn't sound like a very good system to me...

They should have some system of swipe potency. The more you swipe [per day], the less important each swipe becomes. Like Flattr.

Just because you can hack another app doesn't mean you should. You're just enabling another form of spam. There are more interesting things you can work on. Don't be that guy.

Just having some fun. One of our out of state interns was playing on tinder (doesn't really know anyone around here) after a long day of work and we thought it might be fun to see if we could automate the process. No harm intended; just blowing off steam.

For what its worth, I think its a funny/cool project that you guys were obviously just messing around with. A lot of these top comments are taking this much to seriously. Cool execution guys!

Thanks for restoring sanity :)

It was also a bit of a teaching moment. I was trying to show our intern how to use http://www.cycript.org/ for fun at night and he happened to have the Tinder app open. We love hacking things.

Tinder library in ruby : https://github.com/nneal/tinder_pyro

This is pretty cool. Wonder if we could get rid of the need for charles

Tinder would be able to counter a little this by showing the % that the other person swiped right. Women (and I guess Men) would be able to filter out those who swipe right 80%+ of the time...

(I've not used it - maybe this already show this?)

In a system as shallow as Tinder it's often hard to find reasons to swipe left. You're allowed a handful of pictures and a few words about yourself. Everyone puts their best foot forward, selecting their most attractive pictures and saying little of substance about themselves in the tagline. Unless someone's appearance is unattractive to you don't really know enough about them to make a judgement either way. It seems that men err on the side of approval, while women err on the side of disapproval.

To be honest, I don't think there are any men who are regular users of Tinder who swipe right less than 80% of the time.

I don't think I've swiped right even 20% of the time. Wonder if you can extract the stats from the iOS backup files...

There's conflicting pressure here. You're still playing the odds by swiping yes and no 50% of the time. You could curb this by going with total count of yes swipes per day BUT Tinder wants people to swipe. Disincentivizing the swipes seems counter productive to the brand.

Actually they should do this. Many guys I know swipe only right and my girl friends hate that. Maybe this will be an unintentional result of this tweak :)

They probably wouldn't do this because I'd guess that most men swipe yes at a _very_ high percentage.

Can you add a chatbot to carry on enough conversation to get to a date? Then just message the user when and where to go.

And for ultimate virality, can you somehow encourage unprotected sex through either a filter on users' profiles(1), or the chatbot? Then you can create more users who are predisposed (through nature or nurture, I don't know) to use the app. Yes, that will take a while to really have an effect, but hey, we're not here to build some fly-by-night startup. We're changing the world.

(1) I don't actually know anything about Tinder.

Better yet, have it auto-hire a professional to turn up in your place and make sweet love to the object of your momentary affections. you save time and your reputation as a lover is improved by outsourcing this messy task to a specialist.

Got a good chatbot api/library to recommend?

PS: your kickstarter project rocks. We are donating!

Since I'm currently in a relationship I have not looked at Tinder. Is it exclusively picture based? Since I'm blind I actually had to read dating profiles and determine if someone was interesting and deal with the looks portion if I got a reply. I could see this being useful for me but I could also getting a bunch of hits on people I have no interest in.

Basically yes. There is a "tagline" section, but the point of the app is to find people you think are attractive.

Auto-swipe enhancement = So damn hard to do

Always-yes for an online dating app = So brilliant

i have to admit that you guys are the geniuses of our generation.

Why is your username green?

They registered the account on HN very recently

The great benefit of something like tinder is that it only allows contact after both people show some sign of interest. Compare that to an app where you can just message someone...and you've experienced spam on a new level. I've seen several people message others over 20 times, without ever receiving a response.

"Recently, we decided to take a crack at one of life’s most perennial problem: finding love."

The solution makes me sad and frustrated.

I bet someday someone thinks it's a good idea to create a daemon bot to represents us in virtual dating world, and start relationship simulations, so that we need not bother.

Imagine that you provide all your preferences and quirks and whatnot to a bot. Others do as well.

Then you have the bots date. And have the bots do your quirks to be judged by the other bot.

After your bots date for sme period of time, successfully - without earning bad-relationship-simulation-karma, the bots can agree to introduce the real yous to one another. Your relationship bot pre-screened the other for you....

I hope I have some time to write a short story about this.

That's about what I meant.

If you write a story, let us know.

Does Tinder identify fake accounts to Facebook? Tinder has a huge problem with spam already. I'm ashamed to say that I'd be inconvenienced if my Facebook account was disabled; don't want to have to re-sign up for all my other apps.

I made the same in a 10-line Python script the other day and I am running it on my machine.

I obtained access_token from Tinder API using mitmproxy. So it works quite well without installing Cydia or another app to my phone.

This is good first date conversation material.

Yeah we did that too, but we wanted to find a way to distribute it so making it an app was easier.

Hook it up to a chat bot and BAM, hundreds of thousands of dates lined up in less than 24 hours.

Efficiency!

Congratulations on making Tinder even less useful than it is now.

Perhaps I've misunderstood and just mistaken but is the auto-swiping random ? As in, Will it swipe yes or no randomly to people ?

always yes. The more the merrier :)

I just commented the other day to someone that Tinder should analyze the features of those you swipe yes, and build a profile based on your history to auto-swipe in the future. Machine learning at its finest.

We're actually in process of hacking that one too based on your Facebook stated preference :)

I'm talking about using OpenCV on profile pics of those you swipe yes on. :)

It sounds like a neat problem to work on. I imagine a few awkward situations where the algo has "slightly" miscalculated though.

> The current scheme of things encourages frivolous insincere interaction.

That's probably because it's a hookup app.

Congratulations on writing a spambot, I guess.

Gonna give this a try now time to jailbreak

So basically it's just a way to waste your time going through the hundreds of ugly chick that swiped you right too, to filter the few you would actually date? No thanks, might as well just not use Tinder and go for a real dating service.