Building a Dating App with No Backend: How I used Rust, Tauri 2.0, and P2P Mesh Networking to Fight the Loneliness Pandemic
Ben Sivan
The Problem: The "Skinner Box" of Modern Dating Traditional dating apps have a fundamental conflict of interest: if you find a partner, they lose a customer. Their algorithms are designed to keep you swiping, not to help you meet. Plus, your most intimate preferences and behavioral patterns are stored in a centralized database, ripe for data mining. I decided to build Aura : a dating app that is a privacy-first utility , not a business. The Architecture: Local-First and Serverless Aura has no ce