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2026-10-06

X: I scraped Bangalore Hinge. Y: Results are eye-opening

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Not posting the full dataset or even the full counts (of how many in each subcategory etc) because I'm pretty confident this can be used to doxx people.
Some stats I am fine with posting publicly:
- Scrape contains ~2000 women of which ~250 women are atheist or agnostic.
- Scrape contains ~25 non-monogamous women. Majority of these are hindu or atheist.
- For both atheist/agnostic and hindu, there is about a 50-50 split between longterm (life partner / longterm / longterm open to short) and (shortterm / shortterm open to long / figuring out). Lot of women have clicked "figuring out" I wonder if this is just a signalling game that means shortterm lol.
- (assume plus minus 20% error bars on above figures)
250 atheist woman in Bangalore, period. This is a very small number. I have been upset all these months trying to optimise for such a small sample set? Insane.
Holy shit, this is making me rethink my whole life lmao. What have I been doing?
Another explanation is that there's something majorly wrong with my scraping script. I currently assign less than 25% odds of this, but like, it is possible since I haven't put much effort into the script.
I am completely wrong about my hypothesis that most people want shortterm, there are plenty of people who want longterm too.
For reference, here is census data. link to source -> ctrl+F "BBMP"

age group, total, male, female
20-24, 945535, 484775, 460760
25-29, 1056738, 538334, 518404
30-34, 853903, 460907, 392996

2000/1.4M = 0.1%. Only 0.1% of women in eligible age group are even on Hinge. Completely insane. (Obviously many of these are married or in a relationship or similar, but even then)
I see now why instagram ends up as a default dating app for non-trivial number of people. Oof

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