A 2-month program of weekly one-hour Zoom sessions, designed exclusively for singles aged 50+
Update 5/26/26: Current cohort of NYC Online Dating Bootcamp is FULL! Slap your email address here to hear when the next cohort opens: https://forms.gle/TrUEgNMzeo8Jkmbn6
You know you should be âdoing more dating.â But youâve never done online dating before. Maybe youâve even heard horror stories.
If you knew exactly what to do or how to do it, your calendar would be full of dates to the Brooklyn Botanical Garden and the Cooper Hewitt summer soirees.
(And itâs not that youâre a control freak⊠but you donât want to hire a professional matchmaker, because no one else really knows your taste like you do.)
Honestly, too much of the time you spend on âfinding a partnerâ is spent buying clothes for dates, scrolling the personal ads, and agonizing over whether to answer.
You need to get out of your own way and just DO MORE ONLINE DATING STUFF.
Imagine how great your online dating life would be doing if you just worked on it for an hour a week!
If you donât know what you should be doing, weâll tell you. If you already know what to do, weâll help you draw up an action plan. đ
Bootcamp lasts two months. Three dates in the first two months guaranteed.
NYC Online Dating Bootcamp will hold you to a schedule of one meeting each week to make meaningful progress on your dating life.
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Meet Lydia: founder of NYC Online Dating Bootcamp
Lydia (Yale University â12 and software engineer going on eleven years) had been doing online dating for ten years before she met her husband on Tinder. Every online dating catastrophe that you can think of, she has experienced firsthand. But she is convinced that online dating is still the best way to find your person.
She got her start helping her 67-year-old mother.
One weekend, Lydia's mom mentioned how frustrating a recent speed dating event had been. "You need to be doing online dating," Lydia told her. "I can make you a Bumble dating app profile right now."
Lo and behold, by the time her mom had gotten out of the shower ten minutes later, Lydia told her, "Alright, you have two dates lined up for Saturday. And they both have PhDs."
NYC Online Dating Bootcamp is high-level dating expertise on tap.
Itâs a simple idea with profound impact: a one-hour weekly Zoom call with a dating coach to draw up an action plan and get more â and better â results from your online dating efforts.
Bootcamp Content and Goals
1. Write your new profile.
A great dating profile is like a great book blurb: snappy, smart, and not too self serious.
When it comes to profiles, we rarely â and almost never â see good ones. Men, pfft! They litter their profiles with so many missing apostrophes, youâd think literacy was illegal. And women? They say they love being outdoors and traveling, but they never describe what itâs actually LIKE sitting in a living room with them for six hours. People, people, people: you need to catch âem with a hook and then TELL them what youâre actually like. Are you a conspiracy theorist who thinks Monica Lewinsky is actually Simone de Beauvoirâs secret granddaughter? Then SAY that. (Actually, that would start a lot of conversations.)
2. Learn how to swipe.
Depending on what youâre looking for, weâll start with the app that meets your goals. Weâll also set a âworkoutâ plan for how many swipes per day you need to make in order to get matches. (Hint: itâs a LOT, even for the Robert Redford and Jane Fonda lookalikes among us.)
3. Go on lots of dates. Then rinse and repeat.
Dating is a numbers game, not a self improvement game.
Realize that you are ready to date AS YOU ARE. You do not need professional photographs taken, you do not need new clothes. Everyone else on the apps is just like you: imperfect and searching for someone who makes them feel at ease.
4. Last but not least: make peace with how awful online dating is.
Online dating will always be challenging, but if you want to solve a problem, you need the right tool â and online dating is the right tool in todayâs world.
We know how important it is to face setbacks, get back on the dating horse, and stay optimistic.
Your person is out there. Letâs find them together.
Intimacy, travel and sporting fun await those who dare to reach out and meet someone special. It really isn't hard to do. The vast majority of Americans meet their mat via dating apps so let us help you find that person.
