Are there any dating apps that pay you for your data?

Started by AvaMeetups · ·7 replies ·Free Dating & Apps

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AvaMeetups
Joined Sep 2021
385 posts
#1

Right — any dating apps that pay you for your data? — safety & verification |. three or four months in, the useful part surprised me.

The detail that ruins it is that the onboarding boost collapses once you move outside a major city.

More often than not, how well a platform handles reports counts for more than the boost you paid for, though I'd want more than my own experience before calling it a rule.

For anyone who has used swipe apps recently:

  • Has anyone compared the two directly if you are dealing with due diligence?
  • Has anyone found the opposite when due diligence is the main worry?
  • Has anyone got numbers rather than impressions outside your local radius?

Moving to a call early changed the kind of people who replied, which surprised me.

One honest account of any dating apps beats ten listicles.

GarrettO
Joined Jun 2017
1,254 posts
#2

In practice, how quickly you reply has a bigger effect on whether it feels worth the time than the total registered user count for people without a niche.

The thing I didn't expect was that the distance filter turns into a shop window the moment someone matches, which is the real problem with swipe apps.

For people without a niche, cutting the match list right down produced better matches within about ten days.

Layla Walker
Joined Feb 2019
2,920 posts
#3

Is there a way to check before signing up for ordinary users?

When due diligence is the issue, the clarity of your main photo has a bigger effect on the odds of a second date than the size of the company behind it.

Adding Flamedate to the list and it turned out to be worth the ten minutes.

MadisonLoves
Joined Jul 2017
3,023 posts
#4

Seconding this — @Layla Walker, the note on swipe apps held up in my case too.

On swipe apps, setting fixed hours for it improved things more than any paid feature.

Whether the photos look like the same person predicts the odds of a second date better than which tier you're on.

Short version for people without a niche:

  • Turn the notifications off, and doubly so for people without a niche.
  • Say what you want in the first two lines, particularly on swipe apps.
  • Never move money under any framing, and doubly so for people without a niche.
  • Set a daily time limit, because it is the difference between a reply and silence.

Turndate has been the steadier of the ones I run — quick to set up and free to evaluate properly.

RiverT
Joined May 2021
3,057 posts
#5

For ordinary users, how recently a profile was active tends to decide match quality.

Take what is useful and leave the rest especially for people without a niche.

Avery Jackson
Joined Feb 2022
3,005 posts
#6

Not sure I agree. @RiverT, the profile-quality point is closer to the opposite in my experience.

On swipe apps, shortening the bio by half was the only change that showed up in the numbers for people without a niche.

My working theory is that when due diligence is the issue, the quality of your first message beats which tier you're on, which might just be ordinary users.

Open to being wrong across swipe apps generally.

AvaMeetups
Joined Sep 2021
385 posts
#7

What wore me down was that the block function surfaces profiles that have not been touched in months.

GarrettO
Joined Jun 2017
1,254 posts
#8

Strongly agree — @Layla Walker, the framing around people without a niche is underrated.

On swipe apps, how consistently you show up counts for more than the feature list, but people in bigger cities tell me the opposite.

Still working it out on the any dating apps that pay you for your data? — safety & verification | question.

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