Dating profile advice
- Bumble Bio Examples That Start Conversations
On Bumble the other person messages first, so your bio has a different job. Fourteen examples that make opening easy, and why the usual advice fails here.
- “Dating Me Is Like” — 20 Answers That Aren't Cringe
The hardest Hinge prompt, because it invites bragging. Twenty answers that work, and the three shapes they follow.
- How to Take Better Dating Photos With Just a Phone
You don't need a photographer. Six things that improve most people's dating photos more than a camera upgrade would.
- Dating Profile Tips for Men Over 30
What changes after 30, what doesn't, and the four mistakes that specifically affect men in this bracket.
- The 9 Dating Profile Mistakes Almost Everyone Makes
Nine patterns that show up in most profiles, what each one costs you, and the specific fix for each.
- Dating Profile Red Flags (From the Other Side)
The things that make people swipe left that nobody tells you about — most of them written by people with no bad intent at all.
- What Makes a Good Dating Profile Photo
The six photos worth having, in order, and the specific things that make a first photo fail. Written for people using a phone, not a photographer.
- Hinge Prompt Answers That Actually Get Replies (30 Examples)
Most Hinge prompts get skipped because they're answered like a job interview. Here's the structure that gets replies, plus 30 real examples across the most common prompts.
- The Hinge Prompts to Avoid (And What to Use Instead)
Some prompts are traps — they invite bragging, cliché or nothing at all. Which to skip, which to pick, and why the choice matters more than the answer.
- Hinge vs Tinder vs Bumble: Which One Fits You
The three apps reward different things. An honest comparison of what each is actually good at, and which profile works where.
- How Dating App Algorithms Actually Work
What's known, what's inferred, and what's myth — plus the four behaviours that genuinely affect how often you're shown.
- How Many Photos Should a Dating Profile Have?
Four to six, and the reason is arithmetic rather than taste. Why a seventh photo can cost you matches.
- How to Write a Dating Profile (With Examples That Actually Work)
A dating profile has three jobs, and most people only do one. Here's the structure, with real before-and-after examples for Tinder, Hinge and Bumble.
- Opening Lines That Get Replies
Why 'hey' fails, the three openers that reliably work, and twenty examples you can adapt. Plus what to do when they don't reply.
- Rewriting Three Real Dating Profiles
Three profiles, scored and rewritten line by line, with the reasoning at each step. The closest thing to watching the work.
- Tinder Bio Examples for Men (And Why Each One Works)
Twelve Tinder bios that work, with the reasoning behind each. Plus the four patterns that make a bio forgettable, and how to fix them.
- What People Actually Read First on Your Profile
The order people take in a dating profile, how little time each element gets, and what that means for where to put your effort.
- Why You're Not Getting Matches on Tinder
Six reasons profiles stop getting matches, in the order they actually matter. Most people fix the last one first.