About Us

Who runs this site?

One guy, mostly. The name’s Derek Chase. I’ve been living on hookup and dating sites since 2013. Not reviewing them from a desk somewhere. Living on them. Real profiles, real subscriptions paid with real money, real openers sent to real women, and more than a few chatbots pretending to be real women.

The crew

I’m not always flying solo either. A few friends help me test, guys and girls, different ages, different cities. When a review says “our testers,” that’s them. A site can treat a 25-year-old woman’s profile completely differently than a 45-year-old guy’s, and one man can’t catch that alone. I write the reviews, but plenty of the field work is shared.

Alicia runs our X account. If you’ve seen @OnlHookupSites, that’s her. She posts the patterns we keep running into, the things worth knowing before you sign up anywhere, and the occasional thing that made us laugh. She doesn’t review sites and she doesn’t decide ratings, so nothing she posts changes what a review says.

What I actually do

Every site reviewed here goes through the same grinder. I sign up like anyone else. I pay for a membership when the free account isn’t enough to judge it properly. Then I actually use it for a week or two. I track who writes back, what it costs, where the fake profiles hide, and whether anyone actually meets anyone. When a site delivers, I say so. When it’s a scam, I say that louder.

More than 600 platforms have been through that process since we launched in 2015. Plenty of them are dead now. The reviews stay up either way, marked with what happened to them, because knowing which sites went under, and which “new” sites are the same old scam wearing a new coat of paint, is half the job.

Straight talk about money

Some links on this site pay us a commission if you sign up. That’s how the lights stay on. What commissions don’t do is buy ratings. Sites we trash have affiliate programs too. We’d rather you trust the next review than click the next button.

Talk to me

Got a question about a site before you burn money on it? Ask it here. I answer them myself.