[blown_gasket]

HN, I never had any success using dating apps and eventually found my way to using a matchmaking service to find my partner. Matchmaking services are prohibitively expensive for the general public and I'd like to see about changing that.

Please let me know any thoughts you may have as this is in the market discovery phase. Thank you.

For the tech stack: Docker: To have self-contained services running easily.

Go with Gin web framework: For the web server, it's what I know already and thankfully it's scalable to huge levels.

Frontend: Is very basic, there is no JavaScript. Only HTML/CSS with a form that makes a request to back to the web server.

Database: For all the emails, PostgreSQL.

Hosting: DigitalOcean - quick and easy.

Of course CloudFlare for DDoS protection.

[PeterZaitsev]

I think you should clarify what market are you focusing on now, assuming it is for offline dates...

[blown_gasket]

Thank you for the question, that will be left up to the clients. Trust between individuals can be built from a virtual date, so there is no problem there. If matched individuals want to continue seeing each other offline (or if both are comfortable with a offline date initially), that's great too.

I'll update our information to reflect this.