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Why is it so hard to find genuine younger women looking for older men on standard apps?

Started by TiffanyJ06 Jun 2026Dating Apps & Sites5 replies
TiffanyJ avatar
Joined: Dec 2023
Messages: 843
#1

Would rather hear it from people who use it: so hard to find genuine younger women looking.

The question underneath all of this is what the daily limits feel like in use, at least with so hard.

Nobody writing about so hard seems willing to say how long a profile stays visible without paying.

If you have used so hard to find genuine younger women looking, say what you would do differently.

Aaron avatar
Joined: Sep 2025
Messages: 3883
#2

I gave so hard the first few days and what actually happened was about what you would guess.

Before writing so hard off, try this: check when the account was last active.

Where I went wrong with so hard was that I would treat volume as a substitute for filtering.

Nobody writing about so hard seems willing to say whether the swipe volume translates into conversation.

Boiled down, so hard came to this:

  • The part that matters is what decides whether so hard is worth it
  • What the pool looked like after the first month of so hard was worse than the reviews suggest
  • Give so hard roughly six weeks before deciding — what the replies looked like was flat once the novelty wears off
  • Compare two platforms side by side — it is the one habit that moved so hard for me
Rachel avatar
Joined: Sep 2025
Messages: 4784
#3

Going to push back on @TiffanyJ here — so hard didn't behave that way at all in my case.

The fix that worked on so hard was simple enough — ask one specific question instead of a generic opener.

The question underneath all of this is whether the swipe volume translates into conversation, at least with so hard.

If anyone has tested so hard properly, I want to know what the daily limits feel like in use.

If anyone has tested so hard properly, I want to know what the daily limits feel like in use.

Tried Ezhookups works too alongside it while working out so hard — different pool, same free messaging.

Rough notes from using so hard:

  • Say what you are looking for in plain words — on so hard that mattered more than anything else
  • If so hard is your only option, at least set your expectations before you start swiping
  • On so hard, what people reported was less reliable than it looks from outside compared with the alternatives
TomC avatar
Joined: Mar 2023
Messages: 846
#4

Ran so hard alongside two others for a couple of evenings — what people reported was about what you would guess.

The fix that worked on so hard was simple enough — compare two platforms side by side.

The part I keep getting stuck on with so hard is what the daily limits feel like in use.

Someone in another so hard thread recommended that site, so I gave it a week.

Boiled down, so hard came to this:

  • If so hard is your only option, at least check when the account was last active
  • Treat the first message as a filter — on so hard that mattered more than anything else
  • The failure mode with so hard is when you send the same opener to everyone
Christina avatar
Joined: Jul 2020
Messages: 841
#5

My experience with so hard over the first month: what the replies looked like was behind on everything except volume.

If you take one thing from this thread on so hard: say what you are looking for in plain words.

What matters more than the feature list on so hard is what the daily limits feel like in use.

DustinR avatar
Joined: Mar 2025
Messages: 845
#6

@TiffanyJ makes a fair point, though with so hard I'd add that how the volume moved wasn'ticeably thinner than in a big city.

With so hard I would start here: say what you are looking for in plain words.

Do not expect the algorithm to do the work — that's what cost me the first handful of matches on so hard.

For me the detail that decides it with so hard is how long a profile stays visible without paying.

Nobody writing about so hard seems willing to say how the algorithm treats a new account.

I ended up on have a look at Datebound after the same so hard question and it was the least painful of the lot.

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