MeetMindful - Online Dating 17+

After using the app for 2 months I signed in today and it asked to validate email. First off, receiving email notifications that you have a message is already wonky as it is. Sometimes you get the email notification and sometimes you don’t. And sometimes it goes to junk and sometimes to the inbox whether you add to VIP or not. And sometimes the email comes after they’ve already sent another message. Lol something’s not right. And now it says it cannot contact my inbox so I tried a different email address and same issue. Finally got the emails, but it’s still stuck on that email confirmation page. Not sure what to do at this point. I feel absolutely terrible ghosting someone I’ve already met up with and had a good rapport with. Because even if I set up a new profile who knows how long I’d be matched with him again if I am. Glad I didn’t pay for this app :/

Update: I deleted the app, clicked the email link which took me to their web version and that seemed to do the trick.

I love the idea of the app. I just think it needs more work.

In addition to what others have said, I’ll importantly add that I do genuinely believe this company is guilty of fraud. Here’s why: both likes and messages go unresponded to indefinitely. If these profiles were in use, surely some people would hit the pass button or at least read their messages. One might also expect the profile content or pictures to be updated. It’s clear that most profiles on the site are old, abandoned or fake. What is fraudulent is that none of this is disclosed at the time of purchase. If I go order a dinner at a restaurant, the assumption is my meal will consist of more than one French fry. When I pay more than a streaming subscription price for a dating app, the implicit assumption is that it is to access a reasonable number of active profiles. I live in a major city and even here this is clearly not the case. So I spent a considerable sum of money to waste my time building a profile and crafting sincere messages to what have turned out to be largely abandoned profiles, I believe I found only one “premium” member in a major metro area. An honest, dare I say “mindful” company would disclose the time profiles were last active BEFORE allowing you to purchase and certainly that one may be paying perhaps $50 in membership fees per active profile on their site. If a government regulator is reading this, this company should be investigated for fraud.

I imagine if you live in a handful of cities this m a y be a decent app, if you pay the $14/week or $30/month. You cannot see likes, or decide if you want to match with someone unless you pay, certainly can’t message them either, plus you only see ten people a day. Since a very small percentage are premium, even if you take the plunge others can’t see your likes. You would have to make the first move with a message, which gives you all the emotional labor.

Well, after not being on site for a couple of years I received a couple of likes, and before I fully understood the changes, I was curious and subscribed for the week. The people that had liked me were decades older than myself, and not within the range of my marked preferences. I then found that the majority of people did not fill out their full profile, many profiles seemed abandoned and not necessarily pointing to mindful living. It took me one night to go through all people within a 250 mile radius, within a ten year age span of myself. I even checked out a city i’m thinking of moving to... A huge waste of money.

I wrote them to discuss, no response as of yet. When this app first came out I thought it was highly promising, and I shared it with people I know. Now I know that they don’t really know how to cater to their market. Such a real shame.