Oct 19, 2026 · 48 min · 13 segments
Are dating apps helping you find love, or keeping you single, swiping, and paying? Matt Russo sits down with Franz Thiessen, founder of Seen, a new dating app designed to encourage meaningful…
Matt RussoHostSo here's the secret sauce that, well, it's kind of boring to get into, but we'll get into the boring, right? I decided to go through and read the terms of service.
I started to actually like go into the terms of service of these apps and try to understand, OK, what am I agreeing to when I sign up? And with the help of AI, ultimately, right, because there's so much jargon in there and I'm not a lawyer, you can get lost very quickly.
But I started to like I started to pick some of these terms of service and like, OK, help me understand what's going on here.
And one of the key things that really came out of my research there and like I spent weeks probably like just trying to understand this piece is their terms of service say essentially this, that they are allowed to do whatever they want with your profile if they deem it monetarily beneficial to them.
They can.
Even if you're paying, they can do whatever they so deem is monetarily beneficial to them.
So then I started spending time thinking about the different ways that they monetize the apps.
And they go anywhere from forty dollars a month to I mean, some of them are like
So here's the secret sauce that, well, it's kind of boring to get into, but we'll get into the boring, right? I decided to go through and read the terms of service.
I started to actually like go into the terms of service of these apps and try to understand, OK, what am I agreeing to when I sign up? And with the help of AI, ultimately, right, because there's so much jargon in there and I'm not a lawyer, you can get lost very quickly.
But I started to like I started to pick some of these terms of service and like, OK, help me understand what's going on here.
And one of the key things that really came out of my research there and like I spent weeks probably like just trying to understand this piece is their terms of service say essentially this, that they are allowed to do whatever they want with your profile if they deem it monetarily beneficial to them.
They can.
Even if you're paying, they can do whatever they so deem is monetarily beneficial to them.
So then I started spending time thinking about the different ways that they monetize the apps.
And they go anywhere from forty dollars a month to I mean, some of them are like
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