I downloaded 6 months of my personal Hinge data and made a website to visualize out of curiosity and to see if I could gain any insights. For context, I am 25M in a large city in USA. It's a bit crazy to see how many likes I actually sent, but overall the learnings were:
- Sending a comment with a like helped a decent amount but not way higher, might not be worth the time it takes
- Sending likes right before people check the app (after work at 5pm and in the morning at 9am) seems to pretty helpful
- With HingeX subscription, I my match rate did not change much which is pretty good given I sent more likes in this period (972 out of the 1235 total I sent)
- Going on dating app felt very time consuming given the match rates and I was basically doomscrolling on profiles at times. But I did meet people that I would have otherwise not met, so the value is still there.
[OC] Data source: matches.json file from personal Hinge "download my data" in settings
Tools: made hingereport.com and processed the data in javascript. Would love any feedback on this pet project, no data is saved and I'm not trying to make any money off this.
Posted by Zt0p
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You’re some fucknig Adonis dude
While I appreciate the layout of the data, tracking dating results like this has always struck me as… Unromantic
Spends all day every day for months on their phone swiping for minimal to zero results. I’m glad I don’t do any of that shit. Fuck the apps.
Lmao at Weezer showing up in the word chart.
Edit: Oasis, too. Looks like you appreciate 90’s alt-rock.
🤜🤛
I would say over 10% matches is pretty good though
https://preview.redd.it/ddh43awl4v1g1.png?width=246&format=png&auto=webp&s=8222049afcdafc21ba34591729e6d88566b579fe
Ooof
yeah haha, thats like pretty cool
Having the same small talk openings with people on the apps is so exhausting
How does this factor in likes received backlog? I remember when I was on hinge I mostly just went through the backlog of likes I had already received instead of sending out likes myself.
Yowzuh, Don Juan over here with ***119*** matches
One day Hinge will allow accounts to get unbanned and I’d be able to read this data too, lol, cope.
That’s pretty great stats, you definitely obtain matches more commonly using Hinge than I get on Tinder or Bumble, however, depending on how your likes are set up, it seems like less overall reach (i.e., likes received, although I drop my location into cities I have reasons visiting at some point).
Do you have any hobbies that put you in public places?
What is the ratio between times had sex vs. spent time on dating apps?
So, did any of these meetings work out? Or are you still looking? Or did you just do it for the experiment?
This isn’t the results that matter
A couple of notes.
Firstly, from a data analysis standpoint: regarding your “sending likes right before people check the app” comment, the fact that you seem to get increased matches there may also just be to do with the fact that you are **sending** most of your likes then too…
Secondly, this tool you’ve used makes some quite nice graphs but it’s actually slightly flawed in that the “Matched” vs “Ignored” actually doesn’t tell the whole story (something I know because I’ve actually looked at my own Hinge stats from the same source relatively recently).
If you look at the .html file from the same dataset you’ll see that in the match report you will have all of the “Likes” you’ve sent to other people (“Matches”). People you’ve sent a like to are then divided into “Like”, “Remove” and “Match”. A Match is a match (goes without saying) but then you have “Remove” vs “Like”. The data doesn’t explain what this means, but I think most likely “Remove” is someone seeing your profile and actively swiping left (rejecting your profile) but many, MANY of the likes I sent to women in my data were simply still a “Like”. So, most likely interpretation of that is the person I sent that like to **never even saw the like in the first place** (and so never swiped right or left).
In practice, this obviously doesn’t make any change to your experience using that app, but just as a slight balm to the ego, it’s worth saying that of those 1100 women who “ignored” your profile, I would put good money on the fact that the majority never even saw your profile.
Funny I’ve been on and off the apps 3 or 4 times now and no matter the quality of my pictures or how much effort I put into my profile I always got 8% matched as well
I met a woman on a dating app. We’ve been seeing each other for a few months now. A few weeks after we go together we did a comparison between the activity on my app vs. hers. Holy shit, being a guy on a dating app if brutal. 12% success rate is unreal.
Guys assume that OP’s pictures show him as some hot bod but in reality he’s probably slightly above average looking but just wrote a lot of text and a compelling story in his profile. Guys match based on pictures and women match based on words.
The interesting data I never see is how many words in the profile. My guess is that complete profiles get matches and incomplete profiles do not.
I had a similar experience and gave up on dating apps – very time consuming and with only meeting 0,4% of the people with whom I matched
110 likes in a day? I’ve never sent that much in a week.