I’m a single guy and I’m on Tinder, so inevitably when I came to San Francisco I pulled it up to see who was about. Lots of people, that’s who! That’s when in struck me that here in my pocket was access to a near endless stream of local people with local knowledge!

Swipe Right

From this point we just started rigorously swiping right, the goal was to get as many matches as possible, so we could start as many conversations as possible and get as varied a view of the city as possible.

It’s Easy to Talk to Girls When You’re Not Hitting on Them

Unsurprisingly girls are so much more responsive to having a conversation when you’re not hitting on them. The response rate to things like “We’re new in town, where should we go out tonight?” got a much better response rate to any other lame opener.

And this wasn’t a creepy trick to get them to talk to us we were genuinely interested in hearing...