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Dating Apps

Dating App Guides

Better profiles, better openers, and getting off the app and into real life.

  • Profiles
  • Photos
  • Opening Messages
  • App Strategy
  • Moving Offline
  • Spotting Fakes

A dating app is a very narrow window. People are deciding about you from six photos and a couple of sentences, usually in under two seconds, usually while doing something else. That is not a reason to despair — it is a reason to be deliberate about what goes in the window.

These guides cover writing a profile that sounds like a person, choosing photos that actually help, opening a conversation that earns a reply, and the part most people get wrong: moving from messaging to an actual date before the thread goes cold. There is also a guide to spotting profiles that are not what they claim to be.

Dating Apps guides

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