I put my Hinge date to work around my house — and then we broke up

Why DIY when you can swipe right on a guy?

Most NYC singletons feel they have a better chance at winning the 2024 presidential election than they do finding “the one” floating around in the Big Apple’s rotten dating pool.

But rather than calling off the search and deleting all the matchmaking apps in defeat, one cheeky city slicker is using the love-connection technology to tackle her to-do list.

“Hinge: for all your home improvement needs,” bragged plus size model Clare Rea, 31, in a viral video of her Hinge match assembling an accordion-style sliding table in her apartment.

“One of my fave dates,” the brunette captioned the TikTok footage, in which she sips a glass of wine while her free-labor-beau breaks a sweat on their third date.

The 13-step project took the unwitting, unnamed gent over three hours to complete.

But Rea, who compensated her handy dandy with a homemade meal, says putting wannabe boyfriends to work works for her.

“It was really important for me to bring fun back into dating,” she told SWSM. “And if that looks like recruiting a man to set up your table, so be it!.”

The runway rockstar, who’s molded half-naked in Times Square, revealed, however, that her helpful hunk offered to fix up her funky furniture.

Before hitting the town for drinks around 9:00 p.m. on February 9, the guy, whom she’d met that month, noticed a big box sitting in the entryway of her home.

When Rea explained that the package contained the pieces of a table she had been meaning to put together for the past four months, a lightbulb apparently went on over the dude’s head.

“To be honest, it was actually his idea — he went into it very confident, I think because he wanted to be Mr. Man,” Rea recalled. “I think he thought he was going to come in and be the hero.”

“He was a part-time handyman, and told me he’d been taking night classes in woodwork,” she said. “It felt like it was meant to be.”

After taking pity on the poor guy as he struggled to get the job done, Rea cooked him dinner and even attempted to help with the time-consuming construction.

“I tried to help him attach pieces to each other, but kept royally messing up,” she remembered. “So I just poured the wine and acted as spectator.”

But for all the fun Rea had unwinding, it seemed her date was becoming increasingly wound up.

“When all is said and done, I’m not too sure he really enjoyed himself,” she conceded, adding, however, that her tenacious honey-do finally finished erecting the table around 1 a.m. the next morning.

Rea and the pro-fixer-upper continued dating for a short while after their night of chores. However, putting his blood, sweat and tears into the diva’s décor just wasn’t enough to crave himself into her heart.

But she swears her initial intentions were pure.

“I certainly didn’t go into a conversation with this guy with the intention of him building me a table,” said Rea of the breakup. “We didn’t actually know each other very well.”

And she’s certainly not the only online lover who’s used the apps for more than mere romance.

Kendra Roxberry, 29, a mom of two from Pittsburgh, was stunned when her “dream” Tinder sweetheart asked her to pay his near-$400 electric bill.

But some devious digital daters are far more devilish.

Christina LaBarbiera, a New Jersey realtor, told The Post she was duped out of $70,000 by a blue-eyed Hinge heartthrob named Rob Harris.

“I remember watching the ‘Tinder Swindler’ [Israeli conman Simon Leviev] documentary,” said LaBarbiera. “Every time he asked for money he made himself sound like he was in danger and these women were doing whatever they could to help.”

“He created urgency or chaos – Rob did the same exact thing to me.”