> The hack goes like this: First, you delete your profile completely and begin anew at noon on Sunday, using the typical mix of photos that work well: pictures of your face, body, with friends, and while doing activities. Then fork over the $29.99 for a “Superboost,” which ensures your profile will be more likely to show up on people’s feeds for a full 24 hours (Sunday famously being the most active day on dating apps). Don’t interact with the app at all during this time. Then, for the next seven days, reject every person in both your Standouts tab and your regular feed, showing the app that you’re an active user but that “you are not seeing what you want and therefore are desirable, so it pumps your profile out to more people.” And voilà! “I was swimming in men,” says one friend who tried it.
Very much so. Why have we not yet started building an open source open access alternative platform for meeting people with shared interests? All the technological pieces are avail?
It wasn't Hinge, but I met my partner the very day I paid $15 to unlock a wider search area in a dating app. They were like 1.6km/1 mile further than the "free" account let you match with others.
Everything I just read makes me thankful that I never had to touch one of these apps before I got married. Out of all social media, dating apps have to be the most dystopian. Technology can be a force for creating deeper human connections, but this ain’t it… and I say that as someone who first connected with my wife in an online community before meeting in real life.
With that being said, I’m thankful if this hack is the start of a wonderful relationship for someone out there :)
Is HN not the place with lots of people qualified to build an alternative to all this scam data silos with their profit-driven toxic dark patterns?
An open source, open access meeting platform run as a commons (and maybe upkept by a foundation for love, joy & connection.. or, meh, the wikimedia foundation?) should be far from rocket science with today's tools..
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 28.4 ms ] thread> The hack goes like this: First, you delete your profile completely and begin anew at noon on Sunday, using the typical mix of photos that work well: pictures of your face, body, with friends, and while doing activities. Then fork over the $29.99 for a “Superboost,” which ensures your profile will be more likely to show up on people’s feeds for a full 24 hours (Sunday famously being the most active day on dating apps). Don’t interact with the app at all during this time. Then, for the next seven days, reject every person in both your Standouts tab and your regular feed, showing the app that you’re an active user but that “you are not seeing what you want and therefore are desirable, so it pumps your profile out to more people.” And voilà! “I was swimming in men,” says one friend who tried it.
Best $15 ever.
With that being said, I’m thankful if this hack is the start of a wonderful relationship for someone out there :)