The first Tinder approach that caught her eye began with, "Heya stranger, I just bought a puppy yesterday. I'm the happiest boy in the world haha ..."
She arranged a date with the man which began with wine, cider and chocolate and ended with kissing in front of Hollywood rom-com Marley and Me.
Date two went well until she introduced him to a friend using date one's name - but they still kissed.
Other dates ended in awkward exchanges, a "ferocious pash", being blocked on Facebook, after-work drinks, one-word replies, and eventual cold shoulders.
To date, Ms Brenzinger has blogged about 22 of her 30 Tinder dates.
Date 21 was with a woman, which she stressed was not a "token effort" for the blog.
She described herself as being "probably straight", but summed up her sexual orientation using an analogy: "I eat a lot of curry and sometimes, every once in a while, I like to get a vegetarian curry. If I eat a vegetarian curry, it doesn't mean I'm a vegetarian."
Her last date was with a Tintin look-alike she thought was on the rebound, and ended with her writing: "He invited me later to attend a work event with him later on that night (my adorable slutty charm must have worked) but alas, I had another Tinder date lined up."
Ms Brenzinger said she was still writing posts about her dates.
"It was a project I did because I thought it would be funny and I hadn't found anyone who had written about Tinder to the extent that I had."
And it seems the experiment was a success. Ms Brenzinger met her current boyfriend on Tinder during the project and will stop blogging about her dating experiences once she has written about her remaining dates.
Melissa Brenzinger's 5 top tips
1 Lower your expectations.
2 Be wary of people's photos, bios and grammar.
3 Put an effort into your dialogue.
4 No really, lower your expectations.
5 The rules are there are no rules.
