23M from Mumbai, India. Have decent profile (not comfortable sharing my pics here but I'd rate my pics 6 or 7 /10) I get low to decent matches like 1-2 a week from 7-8/10 looking girls. Have been using PWF text game and Alex's online dating framework. While it did help me get one short term relationship in the past, but over the course of 2 years using Hinge I've found the women on the app to be absolute useless, flakey, low-interest, validation and text buddies seeker.

Things go good from opening to building investment to screening but the moment I try to optimally soft close... these women get cold feet and then unmatch or simply ghost. Ofc as Alex says no women is going to say that she's there to seek a relationship or a fuck buddy, you essentially have to qualify her and build that investment to eventually move things in any direction you like, but in all seriousness there needs to be some lay-up of texts from the girl's end and some level of interest.

I know our country and our culture is not very sexually open and receptive so I'm very careful about escalating things and when I do (only with those women whom I've met irl ) it's also very socially calibrated.

I'll also admit that my only source of meeting new women right now is on hinge (please don't tell me to also use tinder and bumble it sucks even more because they don't even open after matching) not because I'm too pussy to interact but because of my work sched and other priorities in life. I do intend to attend a few concerts and hitting some pub with friends in coming few weeks but I really doubt if things will be better there.

Anyone else from same city or same country going through similar shit?