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Not impressed

I can see the appeal of this app. Connecting on a mental level before the physical one. Cool. The questions are interesting. But as many have said, the lack of preferences is crazy. The eggs in my “carton” are just random women, with or without kids, random ages, and I think the worst thing is that not a single person has been within a 100-mile radius of me. I’m not looking for a long distance relationship. I’m looking for someone 50 miles away tops. Preferably closer. So I’ve been abandoning all my eggs. The other issue was getting my face in my picture. My face had to be in the very center of the picture to fit in the egg. I can’t adjust or drag it. So now just the left half of my face is in the egg.

I’m not impressed. I’m only giving this two stars because I think it *could* be a nice alternative to finding a date purely on looks.

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m.fdskfgjkldf;v;lfk

2 months ago

Honest Review - Updated

I’ve been using this app for over a year now, I heard about it as a job opportunity, that fell through, pretty common in my field. I had the chance to speak with the CEO, Mitch, over the phone, really a nice guy overall. In the time I’ve used it, obviously it hasn’t worked out for me lol, but I’ve gotten to watch this app grow over time from an early stage, which, to me is pretty neat. It does something no other dating app does and you can tell it’s meant to care more about the user experience, because you don’t have to pay money to meet people.

For the developers or whoever sees this, my only criticism is this:

I am getting too many notifications about hatches expiring, or that I have eggs to hatch when I don’t in fact have either, it would be nice to see that tweaked a bit.

Other than that my other complaints are to many of the users I get, which is a lack of effort I feel like. When I have gotten matches and reached the chat, they just aren’t chatty.

10/10 great app, hoping it becomes the thing that kills tinder

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mjpool99

4 months ago

Response from developer

Hey Mason! Thanks so much for your feedback, updated review, and continued support. This makes us smile and it really means a lot! Regarding your feedback: we absolutely agree and are actively working on these notification bugs. We should have this fixed very soon and we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this has caused. We're on it and promise to continue improving, but if you ever have any additional feedback/comments/questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to us at support@hatcheddating.com. Additionally, you can always contact Mitch directly at mitch@hatcheddating.com - I know he'd be happy to help with whatever you need and would love to hear from you. Thank you again! Your support means the world to us!

Bad all around

I’m not new to dating apps. I’ve tried them all. I figured this one would be different since it had a different approach to it, it’s no better than the others. For starters I was under the impression if you and your match get a question wrong it will just give you another question. Nope, you are dead in the water if your answers don’t match. I was at 75% with someone and because the last answer didn’t match that was it, game over. You want to continue anyway? Buy egg yokes to do it. Basically buy the premium currency and Auto Unlock the eggs if you want to get anywhere because answering the questions isn’t gonna help when you can get screwed over at any moment. Then the amount of eggs available was poor. My preferences were pretty open all around meanwhile I got a total of 16 eggs and I live in a large city. Days went by and I didn’t get any new eggs so I deleted the app. Most eggs don’t answer and they just expire. This app is simply a cash grab that’s preying on those of us who are just looking for companionship, just like every other dating app. Don’t waste your time here.

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xnavrasx

5 months ago

Response from developer

Hi xnavrasx, this is Mitch, Hatched's CEO & Co-Founder. Thanks for your review/feedback and I'm so sorry we let you down. With that, I'd love to hear more about your experience, and personally help make things right. Can you please shoot me an email at mitch@hatcheddating.com? I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks again!

Poorly Designed

Application is poorly designed, and designed in such a way that you are constantly pushed to make micro-transactions.

For starters:
1) you have to answer 4 questions similarly in a row - this means you have roughly a 6% chance of matching with anyone

2) the process simply takes too long. Answering one question per day - instead both parties should receive all 4 questions at once

3) notifications are simply broken. I receive notifications either late, not at all, or totally irrelevant

4) even the countdown to next batch timer doesn’t work. It seems to reset at midnight each night, sometimes it will give a random amount of time like 6 or 7 hours, then when I check then the timer has fixed itself to release at midnight

5) if you use the 6% match probability, and the fact that you get 3 possibilities per day - you’re looking at about a week for each singular match, assuming everyone completes the 4 day slog, and doesn’t let their response time out. In actuality I estimate the probability of matching 2-3%, and you have no control over your preferences for people, so it is possible your one match after 2 weeks isn’t remotely your taste.

Bad design, bad implementation, neat idea.

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123487

5 months ago

Response from developer

Hi, 123487, this is Mitch, Hatched's CEO & Co-Founder. Thanks a ton for your review - we really value your feedback and totally hear you. With that, I wanted to personally reply to your review and address your notes: 1) While each of our questions we're developed by professional therapists and answering similarly are more indicative of future compatibility, we do offer the ability to "Egg On" if you'd like to proceed with a user without answering a question the same (we provide users with 100 free Yolks after sign up, another 100 free Yolks after their first "hatch", 25 free Yolks each day a user opens Hatched and offer 500 Yolks per referral). 2) We believe - and have heard from hundreds of users - that answering questions sequentially helps "slow down" the online dating process (a common complaint we've heard from users from other apps is that matching is too fast) and that incrementally revealing a portion of your match after each question answered helps humanize the process and see your Eggs in a new light. 3) We are actively working on notification bugs and will have this fixed shortly! I sincerely apologize about this issue and the inconvenience it has caused. 4) We are actively fixing this bug as well! Thanks for letting us know about this and apologies once again! This will be fixed soon. 5) We are in the process of rolling out some major updates that will help address this. In addition to giving users more New Eggs/day, users will begin receiving daily Golden Eggs. Essentially, every day, you'll get a match that you're most compatible with (based on your answers to previous questions) who you can see 100% of and chat with right away. This will guarantee more fully Hatched matches and will reward users for answering questions within the Hatched flow. We can't wait to get this released and it will be live in the coming weeks! I know my commentary doesn't make up for your poor experience (and I promise we'll be better), but I hope this helps provide a little bit of context. If you have any additional feedback/comments/questions, I'd love to hear from you. My email is mitch@hatcheddating.com - please don't hesitate to reach out to me and I promise to personally help. Thank you again!

So fun and different, has massive potential

From a woman reviewer. Only been on this app for a day now but haven’t had this much fun on a dating app in, well, ever. I’ve noticed a few small bugs but overall the concept is great and think this is exactly what the industry needs with how sick of swiping everyone is. I wish there was a way to get “unlimited eggs” as 3/day is simply not enough (especially when you consider natural filters that you have and thus might not want to hatch one of the “New Eggs” for the day), but overall the concept is fantastic/so refreshing and the “gamification” take they have on matchmaking makes this fun and unique. Hopefully, the userbase grows quickly…I think this has potential to be the next great dating app.

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MichelleR01071990

5 months ago

Needs more setting options

First let me start off with I do like the concept of the app, I was looking forward to trying it since it gives you the opportunity to form a connection without it being about physical appearance. But I can’t get past the lack of settings. The one that bothered me the most was distance.
Why is there no distance setting? All apps I have come across allow you this setting.
Most folks want to meet someone near them or about 20 miles away. Almost every egg I got was over 40 miles away. Some were even 80 miles away. I had 2-3 that were in 10-15 miles away from me and those eggs barley hatched. I had no choice but to abandon more eggs than hatch simply because of the distance. So I purchased egg yolks in hopes of getting closer eggs but that was a waste of my money.. same distance issue. Hopefully you will consider setting the distance as an option for the future.

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Yvera

7 months ago

Response from developer

Hi Yvera, thanks so much for your feedback! We totally hear you! In fact, distance filters (along with a variety of other features) are something that we're actively working on and are hoping to have available within the next few weeks. Feel free to email our team at support@hatcheddating.com...we'd love to hear more about your experience and we'd also be able to share more specifics about our filter rollout timeline and roadmap. Thank you again! Take care.

From a woman: fun app with a lot of potential

Just downloaded this a few hours ago but I really like it so far. Cool concept that just makes sense. I also like how they don’t nickel and dime for basic features. We’ll see how it goes after I’ve been on it for a few days, but giving it 5stars just based off how refreshing and different it is. Have a lot of hope here and am rooting for it! Excited to see how it plays out!

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missrach1990

7 months ago

Not the greatest dating app

I wanted to love this app. But I just don’t. Honestly the questions to see if you’re compatible are extremely basic. “Do you hate leftovers or do you love them” (this is legitimately a question I got) I can’t stand leftovers, and you’d think that I would hatch with someone who does, but nope. The questions really need to align more with people’s political beliefs, their religion, and their lifestyle. I also don’t want to be someone’s stepmother so I don’t want to even see someone that has kids on it. And it’s not like I can just swipe when I see that they do have kids.

Honestly this app is also not great for anyone with adhd. I really do like the idea of it, but it really needs a better cool down period as well as questions.

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Bookworm kitty

8 months ago

Response from developer

Hi Bookworm kitty - this is Mitch, Hatched's CEO & Co-Founder. Thanks a ton for the feedback and I'm so sorry to hear that we let you down. Can you please email me at mitch@hatcheddating.com? I'd love to learn more about your experience, suggestions on how we can get better, and make things right! Thanks again...we value every bit of feedback!

Fun, Interesting Concept & Cool App

Let me start out by saying kudos to the devs for thinking of a dating app idea that’s actually different. Feel like every dating app claiming they’re “different” is just Tinder with weird wrinkles or marginal features. This is truly different and unlike any app I’ve seen out there. I’ve been using this for 3 weeks and have thoroughly enjoyed opening it everyday. It’s exciting to see whose behind the egg and what you have in common with that person. I do have some suggestions regarding the questions (some of the feel a bit forced), and I wish I could select wanting someone whose different than me (I.E. my matches and I have to answer DIFFERENTLY to “hatch”), but otherwise think it’s a dope app with a lot of potential. 5 starts from me.

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DunkinDani

8 months ago

Response from developer

Hi DunkinDani, thanks a ton for the 5 star review! This truly made our team smile and we're so happy to hear that you're enjoying Hatched. We totally hear everything you’re saying and already have these items on our feature roadmap :). Be on the lookout for some exciting updates in the very near future and don't hesitate to reach out to support@hatcheddating.com if you have any questions. Thank you!

Honest Review

I downloaded this app from a friend who told me about it. The first day I only got 3 eggs but I found myself immediately enthralled by the concept and the “hatching” experience. Though I don’t hold a ton of stock in the questions presented (they say all of the questions were developed by professional therapists), I didn’t seem to really care - there was something super fun and enticing about answering these questions sequentially with another human being, and seeing the results in real time. It was fun, easy to use, different, and a matchmaking experience that was fundamentally predicated on something other than looks and swiping (as an, unfortunate, serial dating app user, these are all things that I could never say for any other new app that I tried). Though I think Hatched has ways to go (they need to update the questions and provide users with more matches for free - although this might be a product of being so new that they simply dont have enough users yet), I think this concept is commercially viable and that it could be on the cusp of something really, really big. Again, the apps not perfect, but it’s fun and different and is extremely refreshing…which is something I haven’t been able to say on any of the other new apps have been released in recent years.

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Mitchy213124142`142

8 months ago

Response from developer

Hey Mitchy213124142`142, that means a lot! We're so happy to hear you're enjoying Hatched. Thanks for the 5-stars and if you ever have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to our support team at support@hatcheddating.com. HAPPY HATCHING!