> 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.
leakycap•3mo ago
Sounds like the extreme-couponing way of meeting a date!
randycupertino•3mo ago
I found it interesting Sunday is the best day to meet people on dating apps. Wonder why that is. Everyone's on there Sunday looking to set up dates for the week?
leakycap•3mo ago
I imagine it's the common phenomenon of Sunday Sads where you face the upcoming Monday and think about the things you want to change.
Maybe you went out with friends and were reminded you wanted a partner, or maybe you spent the weekend alone and are thinking about a change.
In the US, Sunday is the first day on the calendar, so it often is considered the planning/prepping day for the week if you're non-religious.
codingdave•3mo ago
Sounds like throwing away all potential dates and paying 30/week to do so.
leakycap•3mo ago
Do you use the dating apps yourself, or do you say this as a person who met your spouse a long time ago and are just not familiar with the nightmare they are?
cedws•3mo ago
Meh, I have no interest in a "hack" that involves giving $30 to these parasitic companies that prey on and exploit loneliness. They can get fucked.
eMPee584•3mo ago
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?
darth_avocado•3mo ago
Sounds like a “hack” that Hinge would be behind. Pretending it’s a way to screw them over by “just” paying $30.
leakycap•3mo ago
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.
Best $15 ever.
csvance•3mo ago
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 :)
eMPee584•3mo ago
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..
randycupertino•3mo ago
> 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.
leakycap•3mo ago
randycupertino•3mo ago
leakycap•3mo ago
Maybe you went out with friends and were reminded you wanted a partner, or maybe you spent the weekend alone and are thinking about a change.
In the US, Sunday is the first day on the calendar, so it often is considered the planning/prepping day for the week if you're non-religious.
codingdave•3mo ago
leakycap•3mo ago
cedws•3mo ago
eMPee584•3mo ago
darth_avocado•3mo ago