Maybe add a feature where if someone is chatting with >10 people, they aren't shown for swiping? I don't know exactly what the limit should be, but I feel like the apps use 'hot' profiles that attract people and make them swipe a lot that won't lead anywhere.

95% of your male users would have zero swipes on the app, and then stop using it

and most of the women will swipe on 5% of the men, and also leave because those 5% of men will only respond to like 5% of the swipes they get, so 95% of them get shafted.

and this is why dating apps don't work. people don't use them logically or reasonably. dating is all about chasing hot people who won't give you the time of day and ignoring people who would actually date you because they are not as attractive as the people who ignore you.

Gay perspective:

You must have a face pic of you within the last decade first. After that, anything goes.

Ads are reduced from appearing once every 5 taps to once every time you launch the app. At most. Go away. My hands are busy. That’s why I’m here.

If you use a VPN, you never see ads, and if you route porn traffic and Tiannamen square footage you get free membership forever.

This is very heteronormative and gender binaried. Queer people exist and date.

That said, anecdotally, from the handful of women I've talked about this with: many don't like making first moves on these apps.

Using dating apps is a skill, and if you haven't been practicing sending messages you're going to be bad at it. The vast majority of first messages I got from women were "hey". Trash tier. Probably because they just haven't done it very often.