Show HN: Similarity, a spiritual successor to 2000s-era OkCupid

Category: web-framework

Tags: dating, side-project, java, postgres, web-app

Score: 3.0/10 (Innovation: 3, Technical: 3, Documentation: 1, Utility: 3)

Similarity is a dating website aiming to be a spiritual successor to 2000s-era OkCupid, built with Java, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Neon Postgres, and Cloudflare. It's a personal side project with minimal documentation and an unproven, low-traffic launch, offering little technical or conceptual novelty.

Target audience: end users seeking dating services; backend devs curious about self-hosting a niche web app

Repository: https://similarity.com

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