Building a Dating site with Neo4j

[maxdemarzi]

I've started a multi part blog series on building a dating site using Neo4j. Even if you have no desire to build a dating site, you should check it out for some common techniques on using extensions, using dated relationship types, indexes, and more.

The first seven parts are up, I'm still working on coding and writing up the rest:

Max De Marzi – 11 Jul 18

Building a Dating site with Neo4j – Part One

You might have already heard that Facebook is getting into the Dating business. Other dating sites have been using graphs in the past and we’ve looked at finding love using the graph before. …

Max De Marzi – 12 Jul 18

Building a Dating site with Neo4j – Part Two

We came up with an idea for a dating site and an initial model in Part One. Next we are going to work on a back end HTTP API, because I’m old school and that’s the way I like it. We wil…

Max De Marzi – 12 Jul 18

Building a Dating site with Neo4j – Part Three

We started our back end service in the last blog post and created a schema and the ability to create and fetch users. We are going to flip to the front end to make use of these abilities and work o…

Max De Marzi – 19 Jul 18

Building a Dating site with Neo4j – Part Four

In the last post, we created a User model, built the login and registration pages, hooked everything up in our front end framework Jooby and got the ball rolling. I’m no designer so I am borr…

Max De Marzi – 14 Aug 18

Building a Dating site with Neo4j – Part Five

You ever eaten at a “Fusion Cuisine” type of restaurant? It’s a bit of a gamble. Personally I’m always up for eating just about anything… except Pho. That stuff messes…

Max De Marzi – 15 Aug 18

Building a Dating site with Neo4j – Part Six

Without posts, we can’t have High Fives and that defeats the purpose of our dating site, so it’s time to let our users post things. We want to allow two types of posts, text posts and i…

Max De Marzi – 16 Aug 18

Building a Dating site with Neo4j – Part Seven

Now it is time to create the timeline for our users. Most of the time, the user wants to see posts from people they could High Five in order to elicit a conversation. Sometimes, they want to see wh…

Any thoughts, comments, bug fixes, or contributions are welcomed.

[greta]

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[kevin_oosterhou]

It looks great at first sight. I'll be sure to read it all. Thanks for sharing

[maxdemarzi]

Parts 8-12 have been published:

Max De Marzi – 20 Aug 18

Building a Dating site with Neo4j – Part Eight

Up to this point we have a timeline of posts from people we want to date, but no way to interact with those people. The first step begins today as we will allow users to High Five and Low Five post…

Max De Marzi – 21 Aug 18

Building a Dating site with Neo4j – Part Nine

Now that our users can high five and low five each other, we want to show the other person those high fives and low fives. Well…do we really want to show the low fives? I’m not sure. A …

Max De Marzi – 27 Aug 18

Building a Dating site with Neo4j – Part Ten

A few days ago I taught the Neo4j Modeling class in Dallas… well my own version of the class since I teach some of the older material plus some of my blog posts. If you ever get the chance, t…

Max De Marzi – 28 Aug 18

Building a Dating site with Neo4j – Part Eleven

Up to this point, our users can send and receive messages, but we don’t have a way to show them all of their conversations, only one conversation at a time and they have to guess who messaged…

Max De Marzi – 29 Aug 18

Building a Dating site with Neo4j – Part Twelve

It’s time to add “visions of love” to our dating site. So far our posts have been just text status updates and while it is possible to fall in love with someone’s words, it&…

Source code is on https://github.com/maxdemarzi/dating_site . If any part was not clear or you would have considered a different modeling choice or have a question about your own applications that have similar features, please don't hesitate to comment.