Does anyone remember what the first dating app ever made was?

Started by HarperH · ·5 replies ·Free Dating & Apps

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HarperH
Joined Aug 2019
1,293 posts
#1

eight weeks of trying to work out remember what the first dating app ever made was? — free dating & apps, after reading far too many roundups, and I still don't have a clean answer.

What wore me down was that the onboarding boost makes it impossible to tell live accounts from dead ones.

Any recent, first-hand input on remember what the first dating app ever made was? — free dating & apps appreciated.

Grace Martin
Joined Jun 2017
1,272 posts
#2

My working theory is that the total registered user count gets the credit but how specific you're about what you want does the work, but that is one person with one set of results.

Things I wish someone had said about dating & apps:

  • Screenshot anything odd before blocking, especially for most of us.
  • Move to a voice or video call early — it is the one thing that transfers across every app.
  • Check when the account was last active — with remember what the first dating app ever made was? — free dating & apps this is the difference-maker.
  • Move to a voice or video call early, especially for most of us.

Not claiming this is universal at least on the filtering the noise side.

Has anyone got numbers rather than impressions when filtering the noise is the main worry?

Aaron Hall
Joined Apr 2023
1,491 posts
#3

Strongly agree — @Grace Martin, the paywall comment deserves more attention than it gets.

The one change that worked was picking one platform and sticking with it — it changed the kind of people who replied.

Broadly, on free-tier services, the response you give to a low-effort opener has a bigger effect on match quality than the number of prompts you filled in.

AvaMeetups
Joined Sep 2021
385 posts
#4

What nobody mentions is that the block function buries you the moment you stop checking daily, especially once filtering the noise comes into it.

Noah Williams
Joined Nov 2019
1,377 posts
#5

Broadly, the quality of your first message does more for the proportion of real accounts you see than the total registered user count for most of us.

Boiled down, for anyone weighing up remember what the first dating app ever made was? — free dating & apps:

  • Pick your own venue for a first meeting if filtering the noise is your main concern.
  • Put something concrete in the opener, especially for most of us.
  • Pick your own venue for a first meeting if filtering the noise is your main concern.
  • Set a daily time limit, because the cost of getting it wrong is high and the cost of getting it right is nothing.

Try Luvdate alongside whatever else you're testing if you want something to compare against.

Happy to be argued with especially for most of us.

Luke Robinson
Joined Apr 2025
2,214 posts
#6

Has anyone compared the two directly for anyone weighing up that side of it?

Something worth knowing: the amount of detail in a bio outweighs the number of photos you upload.

What wore me down was that the recommendation engine buries you the moment you stop checking daily, especially once filtering the noise comes into it.

For a straight comparison, Luvdate purely on how busy it is locally.

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