[drugsAreBad0001]

I really hope not. For anyone not above average looking, Tinder, et al, are a bunch of apps that basically show you everyone in your area that would never talk to you. I'm fairly positive that at least in my area, anyone who even matches with me is a robot.

[seivadmas]

Photos are everything man.

There are a tonne of average-to-poor looking girls on Tinder who have very good photos of themselves that paint them in a much more flattering light than they really deserve. Take a leaf out of their book.

Tinder is the most superficial distillation of dating out there, your entire judgement of the person is based on a few photos (and often just the first one).

You need 4 photos, show them in this order:

One full body shot of you with a clear image of your face, one of you topless (if you have the body for it), one of you looking cool with your friends, and one of you doing something you like, preferably some sort of adventurous hobby like climbing or diving

PAY TO GET PROFESSIONAL PHOTOS DONE. I can't emphasize this enough, more than anything else this will drastically improve your results.

The 'about me' field is almost irrelevant. Keep it to 3 sentences or less. When you get a match, push for a meetup at a bar (or your house if you feel bold) as soon as possible, preferably within 24 hours. Get their actual phone number within the first five messages. THE GIRL ALREADY LIKES YOU, there is no need to play silly games at this point.

I also use a Tinderbot to automatically like all the girls. I wrote my own version based off the work of somebody who reverse-engineered the API, my repo is here https://github.com/samphilipd/tinderzapper . When I feel like going on some dates, I just run that for a few days, unlike all the unattractive matches and push for meetups with the rest. It's a pure numbers game.

BELIEVE ME there are girls out there who will find you attractive and want to meet up with you, you simply have to sift through the junk to find them.

The above is pretty much exactly what I do. I'm only slightly above-average looking and very below-average height (5ft4). I do workout so I have a somewhat decent body. I've been on countless dates this year and got laid with 10-15 girls just through tinder.

Anyone can get a date on Tinder with professionally taken photos. In fact, most of the girls on there already know the importance of photos and are very skilled at showing photos that present them in the best possible light.

[tedks]

Are you able to date successfully as an unattractive person without Tinder?

Maybe in the future Tinder should segment its users better so that attractive people are presented to other attractive people, and the plebs stay in their own pool, but it seems more appropriate to just abandon anyone without the resources to make themselves attractive to solitude.

After all, there soon won't be enough jobs for everyone anyway; the growing acceptance of polyamory combined with the divorce (pun not intended) of marriage from its religious basis means we can expect polygamy and polyandry to be legal within our lifetime; as more and more of the world becomes hyper-unequal, why do we expect dating to be any different?

Of course, this is a totally unrelated tangent to the article, which was about the card swiping interface and the advantages therein, but let's not expect an unequal world to be equal in some respects.

[xiaoma]

An unattractive photo does not always mean an unattractive person.

[eru]

And vice versa.

[bru_]

I hope to join you guys in your fantasy world one day

[eru]

Never heard of MySpace angles?

You seem bitter. So here's some drive-by unwanted advice. I assume you are male:

- Hit the gym, lift weights. Eat enough to be non-scrawny. (Or lose weight, if you are currently fat.)

- Acquire currency---as a HN lurker you should at least be able to talk your way into a tech job.

- Get someone knowledgeable to help with your outfit.

- Get some nice pictures of yourself. Either practice the art of the selfie until you are good, ask a knowledgeable friend, or pay someone.

[bru_]

Haha thanks buddy. I interpreted what they were saying as "looks don't matter", which is obviously false