problems / grindr
65. Answer "Looking?"
A message arrives carrying the app's entire romantic vocabulary in one word: "Looking?" You are now expected to compress your intentions, availability, and five-year plan into a reply. Return honesty — whatever your honesty is.
input"Looking?"22:04
wrong answer"idk, you?" (a null pointer exchanging itself for another null pointer) or answering with whatever you think they want to hear (misrepresenting your API contract).✗ not delivered
accepted"Honestly? Tonight, just chatting. Bigger picture, someone to get brunch with after the gym and argue about whose playlist is worse. You?"read 22:09 ✓✓
Constraints
- Your answer must be true. The grid runs on declared intent; lying poisons the protocol for everyone.
- "Looking for the same thing you are" is a deadlock. Someone has to declare first — on this problem, it's you.
- All answers are valid: fun, brunch, a husband, none of the above. Ambiguity is the only wrong answer.
- If their answer and yours don't overlap, exit warmly. "Good luck out there" costs nothing.
Hints
- This is the one app where stating exactly what you want is the social norm. Use the feature.
- An intent mismatch found in message three costs one conversation. Found in month three, it costs feelings.
- You don't owe anyone a different answer than your real one — and neither do they. That's the deal.