Chris Kerger

Chris Kerger is the founder of WouldSwipe, a platform where dating profile photos get rated by real people instead of friends who are too polite to tell you the truth.

Everything Chris writes starts from the same place: the ratings themselves. WouldSwipe users have submitted more than 3,800 ratings, each scoring a real dating photo on attractiveness, trustworthiness and fun. Patterns in that data — which photo types score higher, how many votes a score needs before it stabilizes, where self-perception and stranger-perception disagree — are the backbone of the advice published here.

He writes the WouldSwipe blog's guides on profile photos, bios, prompts and first messages for Tinder, Hinge and Bumble, in English and Spanish.