I’ll try and minimize personal info in this post so that it’s harder to dox me. I am a cishet white man without any romantic experience who is interested in trying online dating. I know that resources about doing this exist, but I don’t know how to find them without getting PUA or other harmful advice mixed in.
What do I need to know/do/have before I try this?
Which apps should I use?
Are there guides that give relatively simple information on how to avoid harmful situations with online and not online dating?
Thanks for the advice 
Get some nice outfits and have someone take nice pictures of you for your profile.
Also, the new meta is spawncamping. When you install the app immediately swipe no till you exhaust all your local options. Then wait a day and swipe yes on the new profiles. All those profiles will be new, you can hit them with, “it’s so cool we both just found each other so quickly it must be ment to be”