Book ~ "How to Hack a Heartbreak" (2019) Kristin Rockaway

From Goodreads ~ Swipe right for love. Swipe left for disaster.

By day, Mel Strickland is an underemployed helpdesk tech at a startup incubator, Hatch, where she helps entitled brogrammers - "Hatchlings" - who can't even fix their own laptops but are apparently the next wave of startup geniuses. And by night, she goes on bad dates with misbehaving dudes she's matched with on the ubiquitous dating app, Fluttr.

But after one dick pic too many, Mel has had it. Using her brilliant coding skills, she designs an app of her own, one that allows users to log harrassers and abusers in online dating space. It's called JerkAlert and it goes viral overnight.

Mel is suddenly in way over her head. Worse still, her almost-boyfriend, the dreamy Alex Hernandez - the only non-douchey guy at Hatch - has no idea she's the brains behind the app. Soon, Mel is faced with a terrible choice: one that could destroy her career, love life, and friendships, or change her life forever.

Mel Strickland is in her mid-twenties and working in tech support at a male-dominated startup in New York City. Tired of dealing with rude men, both at work and on dating apps, she uses her coding skills to secretly build JerkAlert, a site where women can anonymously warn each other about bad dates and predatory behavior from men on the dating app, Fluttr. The site takes off, gaining more attention than Mel ever expected. As it goes viral, she struggles to balance the site's success, her job and a budding romance with a nice colleague named Alex, who might not be who he seems.

I was in the mood for something light and this kind of did the trick. It's written in first person perspective in Mel's voice. Mel has a job she hates but lots of student loan debt so feels trapped and has to put up with the crap of the men she works with, which no support from her male boss. But it did partly spur her into creating JerkAlert, using the skills she has but never really put them to use for herself. Happily she has three good friends who she sees often. She's looking for love but because of her father's cheating when she was younger, she's paranoid of all men. As a head's up, there is swearing and adult activity.