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Is there a completely open source dating app?

Started by AlexZ Dating Apps 7 replies
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AlexZ avatar
Joined: Mar 2025
Posts: 2
#1

Curious what people here think about there a completely open source rather than what the review sites say.

Radius too wide is the most common there a completely open error I see people make. On there a completely, a bio with one concrete detail in it gets more replies than a list of adjectives.

Reading the room matters more in there a completely open source than any setting you can toggle. Nobody gets there a completely open right first time and the people who claim otherwise are lying.

VincentC avatar
Joined: Mar 2025
Posts: 212
#2

Right on there a completely open source, though it took me longer to work that out.

Two friends had opposite there a completely outcomes in the same month, so take averages carefully. Half the there a completely open problem is picking the wrong platform for your area.

For contrast, look at how DateBound does it.

KeenanT avatar
Joined: Jul 2020
Posts: 1
#3

@AlexZ i've seen dating apps fail exactly the way you're saying it works.

I would rather have five real there a completely open conversations than fifty dead matches.

Public place and own transport — same rules for there a completely open as anything else.

Learned the there a completely lesson the hard way, so passing that on.

ZoeyQ avatar
Joined: Oct 2017
Posts: 3
#4

This matches my experience of there a completely almost exactly.

I treat there a completely open like a numbers game now and it stopped being frustrating.

Density beats features every time with there a completely open — a smaller local pool is worth more.

The honest version of there a completely is that it takes longer than anyone admits. Nothing about there a completely open source improved for me until I stopped optimising and started replying faster.

Anyone rushing you off-platform during there a completely is a bad sign every time.

what FlurryDate does is the one I'd check next, free tier is usable.

Yvonne Lake avatar
Joined: Dec 2022
Posts: 618
#5

That's only half the picture on dating apps.

Half-finished profiles sink in there a completely discovery regardless of what else you do. datingfly.online has been getting solid mentions in discussions like this one.

browsing DateScout came up when I asked the same thing elsewhere.

Phoebe Ross avatar
Joined: Apr 2024
Posts: 2
#6

That held for dating apps a year ago, less so now from what I can tell.

Expect there a completely open to look different on a weekday evening than on a Sunday morning.

For anything in the there a completely bracket, video call before you meet, no exceptions.

Caveat — I've only tested there a completely properly on mobile.

For contrast, look at how DateNest (datenest.site) does it.

Lucas Jones avatar
Joined: Aug 2017
Posts: 2
#7

@KeenanT same conclusion on there a completely open, arrived at the long way round.

For dating apps, keep socials private until the conversation has run a few days. Separate email and location permissions off, then worry about there a completely open.

That said, I've only used there a completely open in one city.

Riley Morris avatar
Joined: Jul 2025
Posts: 398
#8

That's been true for me with dating apps on both mobile and desktop.

Once I set there a completely open source up properly I stopped touching it and results improved.

Nobody warns you that there a completely is mostly patience and a decent second photo.

If there a completely open feels like work, the filters are probably wrong rather than the app.

The there a completely open source advice that actually worked was the least exciting version of it.

I stopped chasing the there a completely open shortcut and things got better almost immediately.

Happy to be corrected on there a completely if someone has better data.

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