How Tastemates Dating App is Facebook Likes with Tinder Bot-Collected Metadata

“We’re trying to codify serendipity” — those surprising moments of, “Oh my God, I can’t believe anyone else likes that as much as I do!”

Tastemates CEO Jon Vlassopulos describing how his revolutionary dating App works

One man's meat is another man’s poison. So what happens when you and someone else share the same poison?

Then you start a mobile Social Network called Tastemates for people with similar tastes in food, movies and TV shows as reported in the article “Tastemates helps you find people who like what you like”, published 05 May 2016 by Anthony Ha, Techcrunch.

The Tastemates App, available on both the Apple iTunes Store and the Google Play Store, is what would happen if's Tinder API had sex with Facebooks Likes Database  

Instead of swiping to like/dislike based on facial profiles, your quizzed by a built in bot about what you like and dislike a lot like fashion chatbot purchase by Kik Messenger called  Blynk as reported in my blog article entitled “Kik buys Blynk - Why chatbots are the future of music and shopping”.

So how does Tastemates work?

Tastemates dating is based on likes - Facebook Likes bot in an App as birds of a feather flock together

This App sounds like an idea I posted on Facebook as a response to a NowThis video which I found ironically on Facebook on Monday April 2^nd 2016 at 7:42 a.m.

That video was made by German food brand Knorr, who paired people based on their tastes in food. The idea was that people had a deeper connection if they had the taste in food, as that implies similar thinking but on a more sub-conscious level. It seemed to have worked, as many of the participants have even gone on a second date.

And as you can see, I suggested that some developers need to come together and make this into an App.

Tastemates does something similar, but with more data from everything you like, not just food.

The App learns from your swiping, it'll recommended other things that it thinks you may like while serving you up with a side-dish of other people who have similar tastes. In other worse, you don’t choose the person you date or you are not matches based on what you're looking for in a partner.

Rather, the App matches you to other based purely on liking similar things, in keeping with the adage “birds of a feather flock together”. Even better, you can filter through the people that the App recommends have similar tastes in terms of food, movie, TV show, music.

This filtering is based on age and gender and is very granular. Even the updates for new persons can be gauged manually using slider that determines the percentage similarity you have with someone.

In short, all very hands-on!

Future of Apps is built in Bots – App Match made in Heaven based on Bot-collected metadata

But trust me, if you and someone connect on the level of liking the same things, their age should matter much.

The secret of a good dating App is about making that connection as more people of all ages are searching for love as pointed out in my MICO Wars blog article entitled “How Jamaican can use Dating Apps to find a Lover”. 

This may be the future of Apps; bots built in that match you to a product by parsing metadata collected from conversing with you or with you doing an interactive survey.

Something tell me Facebook may already be planning a retaliatory strike against this start-up using their Facebook Likes Database but using bots instead as noted in Geezam blog article entitled “How FB Messenger Ads means Chess playing Chatbots with Fast Food Coupons”.

Oh, and I'm STILL looking for a developer for my unique App idea, specific to Jamaica......

Here’s the link:

Tastemates on Apple iTunes Store

Tastemates on Google Play Store