Most of us who are single and ready to mingle are familiar with the app, Tinder. It's your portal into an ocean of selfies and duckfaces that you can either swipe right if they're hot, or swipe left if they're not. If you swipe right and they swipe right for you, you can begin the process of seeing if you two are going to shag or not. Though deciding to swipe left or right on someone may only take you a fraction of a second, you're limited by outside variables to how many people you're able to go through. Got work? Class? Ugh. #FirstWorldProblems.
Yet an ex-Microsoft developer created a way to bypass these time constraints: he created an app that mass "likes" every girl on Tinder, which he detailed in a post on his blog called "Hacking Tinder for Fun and Profit."
I played around with Tinder one lazy Sunday afternoon and recalled my friend telling me how he would spend hours swiping right on Tinder just to accumulate as may matches as possible. This had me thinking, why can't I reverse engineer Tinder and automate the swipes? After all, I'm pretty darn good at taking things apart!
Then, as ValleyWag points out, when the developer posted his app to the forum Hacker News, other people started posting their hacks in order to one-up him. An engineer showed off his "automating" Tinder hack, his way to like everyone on Tinder.
As far as social dynamics of Tinder goes, girls have an upper hand initially and the liberty to be choosy — to swipe left if you will. But once the match it done, it's up to the guy to initiate the conversation. Given the generally low hit-ratio for males and even more so for South Asian males ;), the best strategy for guys is to swipe-right-all. And when there is a match, decide if they want to initiate the conversation.
Another hacker who did the same, and went out on nine dates in a row.
I created this because I got tired of swiping — it's easier to sort out later who you like. My initial experiment exhausted me from 9 dates in a row.
I really just love meeting up with girls and reading bibles together. It's so peaceful and sweet. Sex? Ew.
The thought process behind this is that whenever and whoever "likes" your photo, you'll automatically be notified, and can pick and choose who you want amongst them. Power in numbers, as the saying goes. You willing to give one of their techniques a try?
