If you, or anyone you know, is entangled in a web of online dating profiles, you likely understand that dating in the digital age can get pretty dismal. Whether you’re swiping left or right, swimming in a pool of potential love interests found through mutual Facebook friends, stuck in a message chain that just won’t translate to a date, or using an app to talk to someone standing 10 feet away from you at the bar, we can all commiserate that it ain’t easy out there for singles, especially those who aren’t Tinder savvy.

Sometimes, it feels like you could use a dating coach. However, traditional matchmaking services feel just that – traditional. And therefore, antiquated. No matter how many hours of The Millionaire Matchmaker you watch on Bravo, you’re steering clear from matchmaking services, which can run you thousands of dollars a year. (Tinder, on the other hand, is free as can be.)

But one dating service, which is launching in Boston today, is trying to take the looking-for-love experience offline by introducing a new service of matchmakers. Dating Ring, which already has services in New York City and the Bay Area, is a digital dating service with a mission to cut to the chase and get people on dates without having to sift through online profiles, and to make one-on-one matchmaking affordable to the masses. Dating Ring offers both free services as well as more involved paid services, which start at $30 per month.

Considering allowing a matchmaker to take control of your love life? Here’s how Dating Ring works.

First, you sign up with Facebook or email, and give some background about your passions and interests. Then, you’ll be matched up with a matchmaker, who will get to work in finding you a date by going off what they know about you. When you’re matched, your personal dating guru will include a note explaining why he or she thinks you’ll hit it off, along with the person’s photo and basic info (age, height, religion, etc.). If you’re into it, the matchmaker will make the connection so you can plan a date. If not, you can give him or her feedback so they can provide better matches in the future.

The service is free, but if you want more matches per month, you can sign up for Dating Ring’s paid services.

According to Dating Ring’s CEO and Founder Lauren Kay, the service can “fill in the gaps” of online dating. She said, in a press release:

Since the advent of online dating, technology has helped to bring people together who never would have met before, and that’s amazing. But technology, on its own, does not fit the very personal, and ever-changing, experience of dating. You need intuitive, empathetic people behind the scenes who can fill in the gaps that technology can’t, and that is why we created Dating Ring.

As Dating Ring enters the Boston dating market (the service also launches in LA today), they decided to talk to three locals looking for love to find out just why dating in Boston is so hard. To me, it might be because it’s often too cold to leave the house, you run a high risk of chatting up an underage college student at a bar, and Massachusetts people aren’t the easiest eggs to crack. But let’s hear what the service’s subjects had to say.

Tyler Wymer, Engineer at Dimaji, Ohio State University:

It’s mostly a college town, so most people here tend to have their social network built around where they went to school so when you’re new it’s harder to meet people. 

Pretty much everyone I know only meets people [they go on dates with] through online dating.

While I don’t believe Boston should be belittled to mostly a college town, poor Tyler’s got a point. But maybe it’s his fault for going to Ohio State. And, I’m guessing Tyler hasn’t had much luck on Tinder.

Jen Huynh, junior at Babson College (recently ranked least datable college by stats Dating Ring released):

The college town is strong here and it really impacts dating. People go outside their own networks and travel to BU, Harvard, Yale, and MIT.

Basically, Boston’s colleges are bringing down its dating scene pretty hard. Sorry about that Babson rating, though, Jen.

Elly Berke, grad student at Harvard Grad School of Education:

I feel like cell phones mixed with a Massachusetts cultural vibe of not making eye contact is making it desperately hard for ‘love at first sight’ to even be possible. My ‘first sight’ every morning on the way to Harvard (I’m a grad student) is attractive guys staring down at their phones.

Hear that, Boston boys? Look up every once in a while; you might just fall in love with Elly Berke. You’ll also be less likely to walk into something, so, win-win.

So, whether you agree or disagree that Boston’s college students, cell phones and general coldness are making it difficult to date, Dating Ring has officially arrived if you’re still looking for your match. Good luck out there.

Screengrab via Dating Ring