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crockpotveggies / tinderbox

Automate Tinder swiping and introductions with Eigenfaces and StanfordNLP. NOTE: support for this project has been sunset, and the original author has since directed efforts towards Bernie AI.
http://crockpotveggies.com/2015/02/09/automating-tinder-with-eigenfaces.html
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how can I swipe everyone right? #51

Closed markyann11 closed 9 years ago

markyann11 commented 9 years ago

I don't want the app to swime anyone left, how can I make it swipe everyone right?

crockpotveggies commented 9 years ago

Hi some people have asked for help with this and I'll be clear that I have no intention of supporting that functionality since it is outside the scope of the project. If you Google tinderbot you will find projects meant exactly for this. Thanks

sebastianbarfort commented 9 years ago

I respect that, of course, and I'm not looking for that functionality, so this is just out of curiosity: isn't that the most efficient way to approach your project as well? Swipe everyone right and then do facial recognition on the ones the user is matched with? Seems very inefficient to have the app calculate and classify a lot of candidates you'll never be matched with anyway? Thanks for a really cool project.

crockpotveggies commented 9 years ago

Interesting thought, but it actually wouldn't. There are a few important reasons:

  1. You'll actually be grouped with other users differently with a swipe-all strategy (there appears to be user grouping in the background by Tinder)
  2. Tinder is starting to limit total daily swipes
  3. You'll significantly increase the number of conversation tasks in the bot queue, increasing the total processing power for the bot
sebastianbarfort commented 9 years ago

Interesting, I hadn't thought about user grouping on the Tinder side. On the other hand, if it's static matching then a swipe all strategy would still be optimal methinks. 2 and 3 are definitely good arguments though.