Can someone explain how the dating app that doesn t require payment makes its money?

Started by Sophia Lane 7 replies Board: Free Dating & Apps
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#1

Someone in another thread mentioned dating app in passing and it's been bugging me since.

It's genuinely difficult to separate marketing from experience when it comes to dating app.

I gave dating app about two weeks of honest effort before deciding to ask.

Concretely, for dating app, these are my criteria:

  • How visible dating app keeps you when you are not paying for a boost
  • Whether dating app has real users outside the big metros
  • What moderation on dating app actually looks like when you report someone
  • How the doesn experience on dating app compares month to month
  • How much of the dating app profile pool is dormant or fake

Happy to be told I'm asking the wrong thing about dating app.

KatieM profile photo
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#2

Since we're comparing options around dating app, the Rendate boards came up when I was looking at the same thing.

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#3

If dating app is the question, Flamedate is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

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#4

Watch for the pattern where dating app is free to browse and paid to reply, which is very common now.

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#5

Sophia Lane, that's roughly where I landed on dating app too. For me the doesn side of dating app was the surprise — I had not factored it in at all.

The doesn part of this is being overstated, because dating app was fine for me without it.

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#6

Once I sorted out doesn, the rest of dating app became much more manageable than I expected.

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#7

Same read from me. Everything I've learned about dating app points back to local density.

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#8

the Datenest free tier is what I ended up using while working through dating app — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

Good thread — most discussion of dating app online is astroturfed, so this is refreshing.

Datewander.site comes up a lot when dating app gets discussed elsewhere.

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