Thursday: Dating app & events 17+

Okay...

So I’ve been following the app for months and decided to finally give it a try, frankly I forgot about it. So I setup my profile, verified my identity, and paid for a subscription. I was hopping for a bigger pool of women/possible matches but within NYC there were only 40 within my search parameters.

I love the idea of the app, and I do think it has a lot of potential. I haven’t matched with anyone yet but I do like the idea of one day to either make it or break it... it gets rid of the classical two weeks of talking until you decide to ghost each other spontaneously...

The more people that join the app, the better it will be in my opinion. Kudos to the developers.

Developer Response ,

Hey! Thank you so much for your feedback and review. Our members are currently largely located in central New York City and London so please ensure your matching criteria search radius is up to 30km to get maximum members! So happy to hear you love the idea of the app and we're so excited to be changing dating app culture. Thanks again for your review and happy dating! Thursday Support

Love the idea, but better execution needed

Giving this a high rating only because the idea is excellent and I’d love to see improvements, which only comes with it becoming more popular. I will maybe try going to another event again simply because I want to support the idea. However, the execution of this needs to be thought out better. The bar that was chosen for Indianapolis was a sitting-only bar. You walk in and immediately need to find a table to sit at. No one was standing, and there were no bar seats available. What’s the point? I don’t know anyone there and nobody knows me. Approaching a table is not casual at all. Choose standing bars only!!! Otherwise it’s just awkward. Also the prompts were horrible and even though there were 30+ people from the app crammed into this tiny bar, I didn’t see a single person follow any of the prompts. Love the idea of prompts, and the “cheers at this time” was a good one, but the other ones either weren’t applicable or were way too dramatic for anyone to start it (like spontaneously singing Happy Birthday). Great in theory, but execution… it’s like no one who made this app thought about how it would be when you actually show up.

Don’t download. Not worth it

While I love the concept and their marketing - it involves BOTH parties to agree to the concept, otherwise the app doesn’t really work.
I find myself connecting with people but having a hard time in the limited hours to connect, find a date and then execute said date. It’s like Thursday applied the UBER model to Hinge.

It would be far better if you could match with people during the week and then on Wednesday, you saw your matches and on Thursday you could begin chatting. That would allow me to open the app and play around with during the week. Otherwise, it’s a dumb concept that will fail.

Beyond the, the “membership” add on is a huge waste. I don’t see the value of paying so much for using this 4 days out a month. On other dating apps, I typically match with people on tuesdays and Wednesday and make plans for Thursday.

All in all, Thursday took a cool idea but executed horribly. People who say “yes” to dating on Thursday are either unresponsive or out and about and don’t have time to chat with someone at the bar. They need to expand their parameters and allow users to use the app on other days with the idea that we go out on Thursday - otherwise it’s basically just a nice UI concept app parading around as a hook up app.

Please implement so more changes, make the membership worthwhile and price accurately and add more other flavors to the app that will really distinguish yourself from the Hinges and Bumbles of the world.