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Sunaje | building Matched

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I built a Chrome extension that swipes Tinder for me

A few months ago I did the math on my Tinder usage: hours of swiping, very few actual conversations. So I built Matched, a Chrome extension that does the swiping for me.

What it does

  • Auto-swipes based on filters I set (age, distance, interests, and a banned-terms list - mine includes "fluent in sarcasm" and anything involving crypto)
  • Swipes like a human: variable speed, random pauses, occasional left swipes on purpose so it doesn't look like a bot mashing right
  • Runs on tinder.com in your browser - your account, your session, nothing to install beyond the extension

The honesty part

Auto-swiping is against Tinder's ToS. I'm not going to pretend it's undetectable or sell you "ban-proof". It paces itself to look human, but use it knowing that.

Real numbers, because I hate vaporware

  • 109 users
  • 4.7 stars from 10 ratings on the Chrome Web Store
  • Free tier: 25 swipes a day. Premium: $5/month, unlimited swipes + authenticity checks
  • Favorite review so far: "Finally an app with a decent UI! Have hated all the other auto swipers I've used with clunky UIs"

What I'm doing now

Building in public on X (@IndieHacked) - posting the real numbers every day for 10 days: the clicks, the users, the wins and the fails. If this post does numbers I'll write up the technical side next (how the human-like pacing works, how the filters parse bios).

Try it: Matched on the Chrome Web Store

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