A dating profile teardown, and the work after it
You are not the problem.
Your 6 photos are.
hitch scores the photos you already have, names the ones to delete, and puts them in the right order.
Then it hands you the 4 photos you are missing, with the location, the outfit, the framing and who holds the phone.
No subscription, no tiers, no countdown timers. Your Verdict is about 6 minutes away.
01CutHe put this first. It is the weakest photo he owns.
Sample photos, shot for this page.
hitch never invents a face. Not a stranger's, and not yours.
You have swiped for months with no signal at all.
So you conclude the problem is you. It is not. hitch is cold about the profile and never about the man holding it.
Verdict
Every photo you own was taken indoors at night, so you read as a man with no life outside a room.
Score
38/100
- Keep
- 1
- Fix
- 2
- Cut
- 4
- Missing
- 4
05KeepOne subject, natural light, and you clearly go outside. This is your first photo, not your fifth.
07FixThe light is right and the hands say something true. Reshoot it with your face in the frame.
03FixThe dog earns a place. Move it to photo 4 and get yourself into the shot.
04CutFlash, no head, a room full of equipment. It shows the gym and hides you. Delete.
01CutYour phone covers the one thing she opened the profile to see. Delete, and do not shoot another.
02CutNobody will play a guessing game to find you. A group photo costs you the swipe. Delete.
06CutDark, blurred, full of strangers. It carries no information about you at all. Delete.
4
photos he does not have yet. Each one is shootable on a Saturday with the phone in his pocket.
His order
- 01
- 02
- 03
- 04
- 05
- 06
- 07
His best photo is 5th. Almost nobody scrolls that far.
The correct order
- 05
- 07
- 03
- +1
- +2
- +3
- +4
3 photos survive, in this order. The 4 dashed slots are the shoot list, and the other 4 come off the profile today.
This is the depth of the real thing, on an invented profile. Yours is scored against the same rubric.
A score is not the product. The work is.
- Outfit
- The dark jacket from photo 5, plain shirt, no logo
- Framing
- Waist up, walking, looking off camera
- Who holds it
- A friend, 3 metres back, phone at chest height
- What it proves
- That you have a face and a life in the same frame
- Outfit
- What you actually cook in
- Framing
- Half body, side on, food in shot, eyes down at the board
- Who holds it
- A friend, from the doorway
- What it proves
- That the cooking is real and not a prop
- Outfit
- Second best shirt, sleeves pushed up
- Framing
- Head and shoulders, front on, one hand on the cup
- Who holds it
- A friend opposite you, phone level with your eyes
- What it proves
- A clean, current, unmistakable photo of your face
- Outfit
- The jacket again, so the set reads as one man
- Framing
- Full body, distance, the view doing the work
- Who holds it
- A friend, or a wall and a 10 second timer
- What it proves
- Scale, movement, and somewhere worth going
His bio now
Here to see what happens. Love travel, food and good vibes. Ask me anything.
Rebuilt from his intake
I fix bikes badly and cook well. Sunday is the coast path, then whatever is in the fridge.
Written out of what he told hitch about his actual week, not out of nothing.
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- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14
- Day 1
- Delete photos 1, 2, 4 and 6. Nothing else today.
- Day 2
- Reorder what is left. Photo 5 goes first.
- Day 3
- Text the friend who is shooting Shot 1 with you.
You re-score when the work is done. The number moves, or it tells you in one sentence why it did not.