Startup Idea 2: Matrimony Matchmaking

Is it Shaadi season? Keep seeing posts about this these days. Where are my making 60l as fresher in Bgr posts at?

The problem you're trying to solve is quite a psychological and serendipitous one. Tech doesn't really solve for everything, especially human behaviour that's rooted in biology.

For starters, pics are super important. People want xyz attributes in people that look visually appealing to them first. Not the other way around, like how many assume it is or should be. Not everyone makes physical appearance top priority, but it is the top 3 for 90% of people.

Secondly, people tend to date around their socio economic circle mostly. No person matches with someone above their league (or doesn't sustain it) because people like staying in their leagues for the most part. Men will still date below their league occasionally but women will rarely do the same (hypergamy at play). Matching on the basis of that is much more fruitful but challenging since it's difficult to determine socio economic bg from pics or few pieces of information.

Thirdly, dating/matchmaking apps need to make money to be sustainable. And that goes against the objective of matching right partners in a short period of time. Monetization without returning/repeat customers is extremely challenging if not impossible for a business.

I would personally not recommend going down this path unless you ground your research in psychology and human behaviour. Even then, monetizing it is a challenge. Could be a hobby project maybe. I'd recommend figuring out a platform for platonic friendships instead, much more glaring need of the hour.

This'll work great only till one gets a match. But you can't solve chemistry with math.

The discovery / heuristics of finding compatibility is complex and is sometimes best outsourced (aka arranged), not because people are incapable of finding their match but because there is zero self awareness and often limited honesty.

So I'd say the approach is better than a Shaadi, but not dramatically better.

You could solve this for hiring, thats an equally complex compatibility problem.

Willing to build the tech for this if you can explain why you could handle the business for this pretty well?

Why could I handle the tech for this pretty well? I can answer that in 1 weekend (2 weekends max).

Are you planning to set a baseline for entry into your app, expectation mismatch (of crowd)leads to bad experience for both parties You can't serve all from a single platform.

Example one buys a certain type of clothes form Meesho (lower tier) and Myntra has different types of stock.

While some men requires glorified maid and some expect an equal partner.

The skew of certain types dissuade the female users from the platforms, Intresting observation I had was very less numbers of lawyer girls in some of these apps and many more teachers.