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by theolivenbaum • 4 years ago

104 32 4 years ago

Couldn't resist when I saw Tinder for the other day! Thanks https://twitter.com/DasSurma for making the source code for Tinder for Bananas available!

politelemon• 4 years ago

Nice and simple OP! Looking at the telltale odd, sometimes distorted background of the cats, I could immediately recognize this as "this cat does not exist". Indeed the project's README confirms it.

frosted-flakes• 4 years ago

I thought something was odd. None of those cats seemed real, and I clicked "dismiss" on all of them.

adamhearn• 4 years ago

I must have gotten catfished

drakonka• 4 years ago

I couldn't bring myself to swipe left on any of them.

rg1112• 4 years ago

Are all these cats real? Or, are they generated by some sort of deep generative model?

MawKKe• 4 years ago

Looking for some catnip & chill?

csunbird• 4 years ago

Sorry, my cat does not do drugs!

WalterGR2• 4 years ago

That’s what the comment mentioning “this cat does not exist” is referring to.

rg1112• 4 years ago

Ah, missed that one.

The faces were weird to look at. Too many of them.

The best I have seen in the "X does not exist" category is https://thisbeachdoesnotexist.com .

WalterGR2• 4 years ago

Was there a HotOrNot for bananas and cats?

nowherebeen• 4 years ago

This is hilarious. This is exact idea of my parents had for an app.

hiccuphippo• 4 years ago

This would be very nice for an animal adoption center.

georgyo• 4 years ago

This has been tried, at least for dogs. It doesn't exist for a variety of reasons, but I cannot find any articles about why it failed and I only have second hand knowledge.

https://techcrunch.com/2014/05/27/barkbuddy-is-a-tinder-for-...

mkoryak2• 4 years ago

I am disappointed that you didn't use https://thecatapi.com for your feline data source.

glenneroo• 4 years ago

According to the linked Github project, "This page uses images from This Cat Does Not Exist, and random profiles from Twitter Bio Generator."

But I really wish I could submit my own.

mkoryak2• 4 years ago

Yeah I saw that they have an images directory in the GitHub source.. so the cats are limited and static. Thecatapi has a purfect selection of cats compared to this

Canada• 4 years ago

Images arent loading half the time

gundamdoubleO• 4 years ago

Must be bugged, seems like none of these cats like me back ;)

tamaharbor• 4 years ago

Isn’t that what a cat does?

wincy• 4 years ago

If it does like you it’ll promptly scratch and bite you for deigning to touch its belly for a single millisecond too long.

kaycebasques• 4 years ago

Link to original Tinder For Bananas: https://tinderforbananas.com/

mysterydip• 4 years ago

Suggestion to rename it to Tinpurr

CameronNemo• 4 years ago

Where are the IG handles? Where are the "self employed content creators"? Where are the rants about height? How about the bios that only consist of "guess my breed"?

2/10 for being true to the medium

10/10 for cats

fullstop3• 4 years ago

I'm glad that I missed out on this era of dating (by being married).

whatshisface• 4 years ago

Tinder is the new way to say "Hey baby" at a bar, not the new way to meet someone and slowly get to like them more and more. Everything that existed previously is still there, it just takes more courage than letting a computer do the hard part for you.

DonHopkins2• 4 years ago

I'm glad that I missed out on this era of dating (by having cats). ;)

djohnston• 4 years ago

Well done!

jedberg• 4 years ago

What kind of cold hearted person swipes left??

theolivenbaum• 4 years ago

Now for dogs too: http://tinder4dog.com/

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