Try out OkCupid (in the gray area between hookup app and spark a relationship app), Plenty of Fish (same as OkC) or Match.com(paid I think but one of the apps people consider to be 'meet someone to possibly spark a relationship') or even Bumbl(you just set up a profile and girls swipe on who they want to to talk to you just wait for a notification) although the whole concept of Bumbl I don't really like that but everyone's different.

You can certainly still find something more on Tinder but in my experience due to its reputation as a meet for drinks and decide whether or not to go home bang then call Uber, people generally just approach it as this really juvenile shallow type of interaction where you basically figure out some clever cute one liners to say before asking for a number and setting up a meetup. It's like people don't expect any guys to be doing anything more than that and when they do, some girls are thrown off by that and think it's weird unless they by chance weren't used to using the app and still approaching it similar to you. I've done the whole put a little more effort into it thing before and I always got that subtle feeling like it wasn't exactly the type of mating dance they were expecting or looking to partake in.