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I built a dating app with over 60% female users. How to reach more males?

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Hi all,

I made a dating app for remote workers. Didn't spend any money on ads. We have 60% female users. Biggest segment is 25-29 year olds.

Stats: https://cl.ly/6d13336870a4

Any idea how to get more guys? I need to balance our ratio.

Thank you,

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Looking at your stats, I would suggest that you are looking at this in the wrong way. You need more users in general. Having more women during growth is a positive. The population will naturally reflect the remote worker with time as you become more popular.

That said, I wouldn't be surprised if there were a sizable difference in the genders of remote workers.

I agree with other comments that this looks like growth hacking, not a sincere request for help.

Many dating apps charge only men because it's so much harder to get female users. The same is true of clubs and some bars during "ladies nights".

When I was in the 18-29 year old age range, like more than half your users, I definitely wasn't thinking of ways I could date a girl in another city or country. That would be incredibly frustrating in a way that I don't need to explain further. (I had a relationship that had a long-distance stint in my 30's and it was still maddening. I gained 25 pounds from depression.)

It seems to me that the guys would have some type of non-typical motivation to do this when they could otherwise just get out of the house or use an app to meet local girls. Remote worker and rural? Personality type? Older man, younger woman? Expat not wanting to date locals?

Can you survey some of your users, male and female, to determine their motivations?

Just publicize it: the substantial majority of dating apps have more males than females so your results are strange.

It's strange because this is an ad :)

The URL goes to statistics on usage--not a dating site.

I would never click on a shrouded/shortened URL.

any resources on growth hacking?

This is most likely spam

it's a question on how to balance a marketplace.

Are you sure they are real? It looks like bot accounts created by scammers or something similar.

yes, we check every account. we only have 2k users. this is not an issue.

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