Is Approachly a Hinge alternative? I like to think so, but not in the straightforward sense.
It's an alternative in the idea that you are choosing a different path to dating. You're choosing to be active rather than passive in pursuing the partner or ypour dreams. You're doing the curation, not an algorithm made by some dorks in Silicon Valley. That's the alternate path. Grabbing the reigns rather than being reigned.
Put a little less bluntly...
Hinge still asks you to shrink yourself into a profile: a handful of photos, a few prompts, and a quiet hope that the algorithm puts you in front of the right person.
That is not how most people are at their best. In person, there is more signal: eye contact, timing, tone, humor, confidence, warmth, and the feeling of actually being with someone.
Approachly asks you to take intiative. To create something out of nothing. Approachly is not for everyone. It's for those that are fed up with the algorithms controlling who they get a shot with. It's for those that know they are capable of winning an amazing partner. It's for those that want to happen TO life rather than let life happen to tham.
Meet people where life is already happening. Build social confidence through real moments, not profile optimization. You are more than six images and a few lines of copy. Delete Hinge, start approaching.