I keep reading about how dating apps don’t work, but at least from my own personal experience and from my friends’ experience, they work very well.

The key, I think, is to

1. live in a big city with lots of single people your age

2. pay (if you’re a guy)

I don’t consider myself anything special, but following these 2 steps I literally had more dates than I could handle (with women I actually wanted to meet). 3 of those ended up being long term 1y+ relationships.