Treating it as a numbers game is the fastest route to burning out — it sounds obvious written down, but it took a while to land. Is there an old lady dating app for men who genuinely prefer mature partners?
Speaking generally, there is no reason to share a surname in the first week — it took me longer than it should have to work that out.
In my experience, most matches go nowhere and that is normal rather than a failure — that has been consistent for me across a few different platforms.
For what it is worth, patience is genuinely the differentiator, dull as that sounds — it is the single change that made the most difference.