Crowdsourcing this one: best way to get into professional dating is something I keep circling back to.
What I actually want to know about the options here is what happens after you sign up.
Background: I have tried two of the mainstream the options here and neither stuck.
Where should someone start with best way to get into professional dating? Open to anything.
This matches my experience of the options on the table almost exactly.
Before you commit to the options on the table, assume the first three conversations will go nowhere.
What decides the options on the table for most people is whether the nearest city is twenty minutes or two hours away, not the app itself.
What decides the options on the table for most people is whether you're in a commuter town or a city, not the app itself.
The part nobody mentions about the options on the table is whether the radius setting actually worked.
Take that as one data point on professional dating, not gospel.
Not sure that's right about services like this, at least not everywhere.
If I had to name one factor in services like this it would be whether anyone replied inside the first week.
Would happily be argued out of my position on professional dating.
I rotate between a couple of these and Datebie — datebie.online, mostly because neither charges to open a chat.
Not mentioning Rendate would be an oversight given how often it comes up.
Careful with these services, because anything asking for card details to 'verify your age' is a scam pattern.
Worth flagging with these services — screenshots of a conversation travel further than you think.
Be aware when using these services that moving to an external messaging app early is a common scam setup.
The thing that kept me on these services was how much personal data the signup demanded.
Whether these services works comes down to how many competing apps are active near you more than anything the marketing mentions.
Everything about these services hinged on whether anyone replied inside the first week in the end.
That covers what I know about these services, at least.
Anyone claiming this kind of service works everywhere has not tested it against whether you are in a commuter town or a city.
What I wish someone had told me about this kind of service: be specific about what you want in the bio.
Happy to expand on any of that about this kind of service if it's useful.
The one that finally worked for me was flurrydate.online, after about a month of trying others.
My experience with this kind of service was better than I expected, with one caveat.
With this kind of service the thing that decided it for me was how easy it was to delete the account afterwards.
In a smaller town this kind of service behaves very differently once you account for the time of year.
Be aware when using this kind of service that location spoofing means 'nearby' is not always nearby.
Others here will know more about professional dating than I do.
A friend of mine swears by Flamedate, though your mileage will depend entirely on your area.
I keep meaning to try Datescout after seeing it recommended here so often.