1. A dating coach from a casual dating app maintains that there is nothing wrong with attraction at first sight. No matter you’re a woman or a man, attraction at first sight is a signal which says, “I like this individual”.
2. May 30, 2021 With his dating app “Lovetastic”, the Swiss Nicolas Schotten wants to prevent one thing in particular: the superficiality that, in his opinion, prevails on other dating apps. Dating app 'Lovetastic': No love at first sight - Teller Report.

The ‘Basic Instinct’ star revealed she had signed up to Bumble in 2019 to meet a potential love interest but the app thought her account was a fake. She wrote on Twitter: “I. May 06, 2018 I work at the online dating site and app Zoosk and come across a lot of real-world stories of love at first sight—People who just know by looking at a photo or seeing someone walk towards them for the first time, that this is the person they’ll spend the rest of their life with. The stories are unbelievably romantic, but as someone who’s.

Let’s be real, how many of us spend way too much time obsessing over our online dating profile picture? That would probably be all of us. It's your first impression as to whether or not you’re in the swipe left or swipe right category. So, there isn’t any shame in admitting that you probably spend a lot more time crafting up the perfect profile photo than you should. Everyone out there seems to have an opinion on how to take the best profile photo, what you should and shouldn’t wear on it, which types of photos are most effective, and so on. Regardless of all that, you just want a picture that can perfectly sum up who you are in one snapshot. But as we all know, that’s not exactly easy. Because dating profile photos have a tendency to be overly flattering, completely misleading, or worst of all, fake, a newly launched dating app, at First Sight allows you to meet people straight away through 60 second video chats and lets you skip all the hassle of profile photos.

“Your Beauty is Beyond Pictures,” is the official slogan of the at First Sight app. Developers of the app recognized that some people either a.) Don’t always photograph well or b.) Keep retouching until they don’t even recognize themselves. Because of that, the team behind the app dedicated themselves to replacing mobile dating based on photo matches.

The at First Sight team director said

“Looking for someone special in a page full of perfect-looking profile pictures is just exhausting, especially when you know that the real person behind the profile may be startlingly different from who he says he is. This could be extremely discouraging for new users of online dating sites.”

Here’s how it works:

To begin, you’ll need a Facebook account, just to make sure you’re a real person and that you’re chatting with real people as well. Then you can “Seek” out people for a 60 second video chat or “Wait” for video calls. During the chat, you and the other person have 60 seconds to decide whether it’s a “Like” or a “Pass.” If you both like each other, it’s a match and you can continue chatting without any time limits. If it’s a “Pass,” be nice and say you’re not interested before hitting “Pass.” Or, if neither of you like nor pass during those 60 seconds, the app will start a brand new search.

Since the app uses video streaming, users are able to gain a real picture of the true person they’re speaking with, which allows for real chemistry to happen. Definitely a lot different than mindlessly swiping through a bunch of overly photoshopped photos.

As the website states,

“We believe in love at first sight, firmly… However, we find that, people in the real world have less time, less confidence or less patience to find their love at first sight. We also find that, the picture-based dating apps seem to not have the capacity to enable us to express our true selves and to make any eye contact with each other when we meet someone for the first time.”

Overall, it’s a pretty neat concept. It definitely makes online dating feel less like online dating when you can skip all the profile creation nonsense and go straight to the connecting. Besides, creating that perfect profile takes a ton of work. You definitely want to come off as interesting and attractive, but at that the same time stay true to who you really are. For people seriously looking for love, it’s also a great way to eliminate any heartbreaking catfishing scams that they could potentially fall into.

However, for people on the shy side, skipping straight to the 60 second video chat may be more daunting than easing your way in through initial back and forth messaging. Regardless of how you want your online dating experience to go, there’s no shortage of platforms out there for you to choose. This is just another option out there.

Images: markgranitz/Flickr; at First Sight; joquz/Tumblr

It's nothing, it doesn't make a good impression on the photos.

Swipe left.

Oh, he is very cute and even has a photo with his dog.

And he loves to travel - swipe right for a like!

This is what the first steps in dating look like nowadays, preferably in the evening on the couch while some Netflix series is babbling in the background.

Married At First Sight

The choice of dating platforms is long: Tinder, Bumble, Parship, ElitePartner, Lovoo - and more.

Most portals have one thing in common: They mainly rely on photos.

Profiles without photos are usually ignored and immediately discarded.

Because: whether alone, with a pet, in a group, or just as a couple - the more photos, the better.

(Even if several people in one photo can lead to confusion).

An app full of unique selling points

The Swiss dating app “Lovetastic” is pursuing a different strategy. First of all, it only focuses on the inner values ​​- an app for reduced superficiality, so to speak. Photos can only be sent here after they have 'liked' each other, ie after the match. According to “Lovetastic” founder Nicolas Schotten, this is a unique concept on the online dating market that is also well received: the app has already been downloaded over 150,000 times in Switzerland, Germany and Austria since it was launched at the end of 2019. According to Schotten, 100,000 of them are active users, and the trend is rising. It will take some time before the competition is caught up - in February 2021, the largest competitor, the American dating app Tinder in Germany, had almost 550,000 Android users registered. No figures are known for iOS users.

“Appearance is just a small piece of the whole cake,” says Schotten.

But it is precisely this piece of cake that plays the biggest role in the matching process on other apps.

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That's why he decided to focus primarily on the other pieces.

Because with “Lovetastic”, according to Schotten, you can visually imagine yourself without photos.

Love In First Sight

Make the user laugh

When creating a profile, in addition to the usual information such as name, age, place of residence and hobbies, external characteristics such as size, body type and smoking and sports habits are also asked for. You can also add a personal voice message to your profile. These would be particularly well received as they would make the profile much more personal. 'You can imagine more of it and feel closer to the person - although you don't know them - if you have already heard the voice,' believes Schotten - to his knowledge a unique concept.

Since the personality would often be neglected in other apps, you should make a lot of effort, especially when describing it, in order to make the profile interesting. 'It's not enough to write 'I'm looking for love' - the goal is to be able to imagine the person behind the profile as well as possible,' says Schotten. The best that you can achieve with your profile is to make other users laugh.

Basically, the selection process on “Lovetastic” is similar to that of the competition: If you are not interested, you swipe to the left, if you are interested, to the right. So that you don't lose your great love by accidentally swiping to the left, “Lovetastic” also enables its users to bring back a person who has been accidentally swiped to the left - i.e. discarded - using a replay function. As soon as two people have given each other a like, a conversation can begin - and photos can be exchanged. This then shows whether it really only depends on the inner values, or whether the appearance is not ultimately decisive. If you do not want to do without unlimited likes and other features such as the filtering of profiles, you also have the option oftake out a paid premium subscription.

Boom thanks to Corona

Like all other dating apps, “Lovetastic” has seen a boom in the past few months due to the corona.

Schotten reports that there was a significant increase in users, especially during the second lockdown.

'During the first lockdown last spring, the weather was still incredibly beautiful, but as soon as you are at home in winter and have no options like clubs and the like, then you are inevitably more on the phone and have more time for dating apps.'

In any case, with “Lovetastic” an app has been added to the online dating market that represents an antagonist to the “classic” apps.

In the long term, Schotten would like dating apps to become less superficial and instead more authentic.

Everyone has to try for themselves whether this is actually a better way to find love.