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Ask HN: Can we repurpose Tinder to fight Covid-19?

by cevans01 on 3/21/20, 4:09 PM with 5 comments

After reading this news story of a Yale student and his friend delivering groceries to elderly folks[0], I wonder if we can repurpose Tinder to scale this up.

From what I remember, Tinder allows you to set a preferred age range. If young folks set their preferred age to 65-80 and older folks set their preferred age range to 20-40, we can match people in need of groceries with volunteers.

Recipients and volunteers will just need to put a blurb in their bio about what they need or what they can deliver/provide.

[0] https://apnews.com/bda9c1ed0f8e10742ad2feabb2d52aa2?utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

  • by KerryJones on 3/21/20, 5:13 PM

    I like this idea, but young people can be carriers with no/mild-symptoms and might increase risk?

  • by roschdal on 3/21/20, 4:54 PM

    No.

  • by buboard on 3/22/20, 11:34 AM

    Tinder should have shut down a week ago. Random hookups are a transmission vector