I don't think we necessarily need more dating apps, just better ones,
but since online dating is currently more or less a monopoly from Match.com, all apps are pretty much the same, and they're designed to extract as much money as possible from people without even really trying to create good connections.
I think it would be nice to have some apps with a different approach.
Firebase can save you a lot of time at the beginning of your project, but it have so many issues once you start to scale even just a bit, it's such a pain to work with on a real project.(safety issues, bugs, all kind of stupid limitations, your bill can go up extremely easily, it has so many shortcomings)
I'd recommend using some boilerplate from github in your favorite stack even if it might be a little bit longer to build a product with it.
It was rate limited since the start, the bots are respecting the rate limits, that does not mean they stop being a burden, they just create more of them.
There are multiple projects built to reverse engineer their API to avoid paying the API rates(it still makes economical sense to buy a subscription for this), it was obvious that they would have to increase their bot protections at some point.
Regular captchas are easily solvable by multimodal LLMs, we're reaching a point where what's hard for software to solve is also hard for humans.
At some point they'll probably have to charge by usage instead of a flat subscription.
If your goal is to work for people that don't give a crap about you and don't respect you then yes. If you want to work people that actually believe you're more than a cell in spreadsheet then no, or at least not for the reason you mentioned.
Also I think that in a lot of cases it's more "we can't afford to pay a guy with 20 YoE" than ageism, maybe you're punching below your weight.
Recently I noticed that I get more answers for jobs that seems too hard for me than too easy.
I don't have the exact metrics, but free healthcare, free education, and enough benefits to not be homeless and hungry seems like more than what poor Americans get.
It's a complex issue. When so many "skilled workers" move to your neighborhood that your rent doubles and that you can't afford to do grocery shopping in your neighborhood, it makes sense to be angry.
The US top 1% are number 1, the US bottom 10% have it worse than most or even almost all people from western Europe.
I think most of them just choose stripe unless they get a very good deal at another provider or if they need to support a particular payment method that stripe does not support.
Then they might look into something else than stripe if they have a terrible problem with stripe like having their funds locked for weeks or if they think they charge too much fees.
First list all the categories/subcategories URLs for the domain you want to target(you'll probably need to do it for each country), pretty straightforward.
Then find how the pagination works, usually it's a get number parameter or a cursor in the URL.
Some websites will have a limited number of results on the same search, so you'll need to tinker with the faceted search, it's a "simple" loop, for example:
for (i in categories)
for (j in price_ranges)
for (k in price_ranges.pages[j])
get_products_on_the_page()
I think it would be nice to have some apps with a different approach.