Jeff | OnlyYou

Born in China, studied and worked in USA, founded OnlyYou - a dating app based in China.
IU CS PhD, worked at Intel/NVIDIA/WebEx

[Jeff | OnlyYou @jeffsjcd]

Born in China. Math BS (Zhejiang Univ), CS PhD (Indiana Univ). Worked at Intel, nVidia, WebEx in Silicon Valley. Now building OnlyYou — a dating app based in China. If you live in or visit China, you can try it: matching is free, you pay only to connect. https://t.co/6z54sChFZF

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@LFC_Rodney @TeeBabyRey the 2050 part lands harder once you leave the car. a phone that pays for everything, a delivery in twenty minutes, a metro that runs like a clock. after a week you stop noticing, and that is when every other city starts feeling slow.

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@CHOCOLATE_6840 rent decides the rest. once a studio takes half the salary, the month becomes a series of small noes: no taxi after the last metro, no dinner that runs long, no weekend trip. the city is not unaffordable so much as narrow in what you can say yes to.

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@raysiuuu the everyday side is the harder one to write about, since nothing in it looks like a story until you've been there a while. the posts that land are usually one specific thing: a price, a queue, a conversation at a stall.

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@firdavsabdu the infrastructure is real and also the least interesting thing you'll notice by week three. what changes is the small stuff: how early you can eat, how late shops stay open, how little a day needs planning. curious what hits you in the second city.

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@keanfei47 @commiepommie retirees pick a city by three things: hospitals, how fast they can leave the country, and what a month costs. zhongshan scores on all three. younger people mostly pick on nightlife and jobs, then wonder why they never settled.

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@Wendy_ZR0q the two-china thing shows up fastest in dating. a city week runs on weeknights, a hometown week runs on new year. two people from the same country can still be living on different clocks, and that is usually what the mismatch is.

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@NegarNasirqs @NapierHolland the pull is usually boring: cost of living, safety at night, and a transport system that makes a forty minute commute normal. people rarely move for a narrative, they move because the daily math works better.

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@Lingard010 @web3lgx @iruletrenches mandarin first, then a city with locals, not an expat bubble. then the apps people here actually use. and a reason to stay past a year, since nobody starts something with someone who's leaving. we built a dating app for this.

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@the_ken_7 欢迎 也可以来成都

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the shop cats are the part nobody warns you about. in china they are usually the actual owner, and they will let you know

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december is the wrong month to compare them. dubai is at its best then, china is at its coldest and quietest. if you want the version of china people post about, come in april or october instead

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@disuzhiwangmin 成都这边的老外自称white monkey，due to 体毛

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@noiroleptic 欢迎来中国

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@bloomjpg is it just Iran war?

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@emhai0909 可以啊，看看我的平台

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@KuppaMaetuKozhi jinshanling is the right call, most people do badaling and come home with a photo of other people's heads. the steep stretch up towards zhenbeitai is where it goes quiet.

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@ChrisinLiuzhou the camera thing is real but you stop noticing it after about a week. glad the trip landed well. if you are back and single, the apps here are less bleak than people say.

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@PurdyKurty @TeamLiquid @XtremePUBG @luke12PUBG @diyycc @CowBoixxx good luck at PGC. between groups get out of the hotel bubble, 20s shanghai is a different city from the one at the arena. if any of the boys are single they will do better there than they expect.

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@ChrisinLiuzhou the "no culture" line is the one everyone repeats. shenzhen is almost all people who moved there and have no hometown network either, which is why it is the easiest city in china to be new. also the easiest to be single in.

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@Villon_Rouge Yet Richard Gere 😛