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OP here, would love to get comments from the HN community.

It offers to match you with people in the same "class". Class is verboten in Canada/US unless it's "the middle class". There's probably a nicer way to say that.

This isn't one of the apps that I read, but that would definitely be a negative for me. The world doesn't need more class divisions.

OP here, I agree. I guess @mlyang put that in better words than us "people with similar intellectual interests/career aspirations"

Right, the word "class". Of course people still look to date in similar... circles?

This is the first thing that stuck out to me also. It's a very polarizing topic and needs to be said differently.

+ The application is riddled with typos and grammatical oddities that are distracting and occasionally affect the meaning. You may have better luck if you have a second pair of eyes look over your written work.

+ When describing the potential size of your user base, why do you only include people who are already on eHarmony or okCupid? What about all the single who aren't on either?

Off the bat, 1)too many founders 2)Application too wordy

I know the sweet spot is 3 but we are 4 cofounders.

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