Breeze has a really cool formula in which you pay exclusively for each date. And a date is organised automatically for each match, without any possibility to chat beforehand.
Not exactly, you only have a very limited amount of profiles visible every day. About 4, though maybe it depends on the location. So there is no endless swiping. You also cannot match anyone else until you have set up a date with your last match, and if you opt out too many times (again, probably three or four) your account gets blocked.
In any case, you only pay for dates you go to (unless you cancel at the last moment). Their incentive is to send you to as many dates as possible.
Coffee Meets Bagels tried that. A few matches at 12PM every day.
I think the key problem for dating apps is that 90% of women on it will only match with the top 10% of men. Meanwhile, most men will try to match with anything that has a nose and eyes.
I don't think Breeze's concept fixes that since it's still up to the girl to match.
The problem you mention is real and fundamental, and yet matching happens in real life. I think it's ultimately because of limited exposure (you have access to a limited amount of people) and limited availability (the most attractive have limited time, can't really date too many partners in parallel). I think this app is a decent mitigation for both issues, as it proposes a limited choice and forces you to invest in each match (and I'm not talking about the economic investment but the need to actually show up for the date). I've tried it and it's working way better for me than the alternatives (though it might be an effect that wears off, I don't know. But so far so good).
I don't think it will help. This is my honest opinion.
It doesn't matter if Breeze limits matches to a few a day. Women who have Bumble, Tinder, Hinge, etc will still get thousands of likes from top 10% guys. There's no reason for them to go on a date with a 50th percentile guy from Breeze. They're not only using Breeze.
If you're getting success on Breeze, you probably have success in other dating apps too.
It's the average guy who is screwed on dating apps no matter if it's Breeze or Bumble.
Ok, don't want to sound more like an ad for a dating app than I already do :). In my case I can say that while the traditional apps had become completely, utterly useless for me, this appears to work. Maybe it's also an age thing, demographics, etc.
On the general side, do you really think that the women who match the 10% guys on Tinder are actually getting dates with them? If those guys have so many to choose from, they'll choose better matches. Or they're going to say that they're looking for non-monogamous relationships because that's what works in their interest. So traditional apps are not working for women either- just everyone despises Tinder and Bumble, at least that's what I'm hearing left and right. Again, this is just my social circle and age range, so YMMV.
Why does it? I'm curious. I think it solves most of the issues of the traditional apps. (But yes, I didn't mention a fundamental aspect: they propose you only a very limited amount of profiles each day, no endless swiping: if you don't fancy any of your daily ~4, tough luck, you can come back tomorrow).
You don't. You go to the date (in a public place, set by the app) and if there's something fishy about them you can report them to the app (there's an explicit feedback request after each date).
Ooh, you lost $12! And your date did too, and probably the account as well. As for the risk of getting murdered, I think it's unavoidable in any app (and in life in general) but probably worse if you organise the date by yourself.
