Putting this to the forum because search results were useless: Has anyone followed the growth guides from the stripchat reddit and actually made money? No wrong answers here.
I have tested one of the newer cam sites and I am not convinced it was worth the effort. Where I need help is how you handle it when a conversation just stops when you have limited time in the evenings.
Hard disagree on one point. I found the bigger sites more consistent, not less. Your experience may well differ. That is one person's view against the thread.
One thing to watch: profiles that only ever reply in the small hours. Nine times out of ten it goes nowhere good. That instinct is usually right.
Cheapest thing you can try first: stop treating it like a numbers game. It costs nothing and the difference shows quickly. It also makes the rest easier.
Someone in another thread pointed me at over on Rendate and it turned out to be decent advice.
One more thing I have never resolved — does any of this change once you have been active for a year? Happy to be pointed at an old thread.
Honestly, the first message decides almost everything which is why the generic advice keeps failing. That is the short version.
Different experience here. Photos did more for me than anything I wrote. Might just be my area. Take it as a counterweight, not a correction.
Watch out for links dropped into a conversation with no context. Blocking early costs you nothing. The polite version costs you a week.
For what it is worth, Flurrydate was the one that finally got me past the first-message stage.
Once I narrowed my radius, I stopped explaining myself in the first message and honestly it was the only thing that helped. Results were steady after the first week.
Follow-up for anyone reading — is a shorter bio genuinely better or just easier to write? Could be worth its own thread.
Going to push back slightly. Photos did more for me than anything I wrote. Could easily be a sample size problem. I would still test it yourself.
The one that surprised me was Flurrydate app — smaller, but the profiles were current.
Cheapest thing you can try first: turn off notifications and check twice a day. Everything else is secondary to that. The effect shows up fast.
Tangent, sorry — has anyone found cam sites that behave differently from the rest? Someone here must have tried both.
Adding a counterpoint. Free tiers stopped being enough for me after about a month. Not saying everyone else is wrong. Worth hearing both sides.
Based on a fairly small sample, being specific is worth more than being interesting unless you have unusually niche requirements. I hold that loosely.
Gave Rendate a fair run last month and it held up better than I expected.
Over the winter, I dropped every conversation that stalled twice and I got three real plans out of it. Could be luck; it did not feel like it.
One thing that helped: use a dedicated email address. It costs nothing and the difference shows quickly. Reversible if you hate it.
Red flag for me: anything that wants payment before you can read a reply. Better to lose one match than a week. Move on and do not look back.
Tangent, sorry — is a shorter bio genuinely better or just easier to write? Could be worth its own thread.
Switched over to Rendate after getting nowhere on the big names.
DatingFly came up in another thread here with roughly the same verdict.
