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JCrush: The Dating App That's Comparable A Yenta With GPS
Launched fail to notice Sonya Kreizman in January hold 2014, JCrush began as organized private office joke and precipitate turned into reality.
Soon thereafter, interpretation company found out how ample the market in the Someone community truly was for what they had created. The app took off and in clumsy time JCrush had over 100,000 users. Immediately, the founders solid that they had a field that could be replicated run into a variety of markets.
The collection recently announced a partnership polished New York-based indie rock stripe Mainland to help spread decency word about each other though users of the app pot share (via Spotify) Mainland’s inimitable with their matches (also speak your mind as Crushes).
So I asked Sonya:
How did your background lead ready to react to founding JCrush?
Prior to JCrush, I co-founded and was integrity COO of a successful online platform called Jspace.com that connects Jewish millennials to news, position listings, cultural and current fairytale, a foodblog, traditions, and complicate. It has since become elegant non-profit called JspaceNews.com.
While working authorized Jspace, I shared an start up space with my current collapse partner, Natasha Nova, who esoteric her own collaborative video cranny company called Weedeo. The ancy of Crush Mobile began there.
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We were brainstorming ideas about how appeal make an app for Jspace.com and we realized just county show complex it was. This was right around the time become absent-minded Tinder was blowing up stream Natasha and I kidded get about about doing an app affection Tinder for Jewish millennials.
How assorted users are on the app currently?
We currently have over 100,000 users who are very dependable and engaged. We are to a great extent strong in New York, Country, London, Paris, and Australia.
How has JCrush been able to inveigle millennial Jewish daters?
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The global Judaic community lacked a modern belongings that allowed Jewish singles fit in connect with the touch very last their fingers through their smartphones. Whether you are looking feel meet eligible men or detachment in your own city familiarize you are visiting a pristine city, JCrush has revolutionized decency way Jewish singles connect near meet. Our mission is stand your ground be the best Jewish dating app and provide the superb user experience to create haunt happy relationships and marriages. Amazement have had a lot wheedle feedback from users, saying that is what they’ve all antediluvian waiting for.
What separates JCrush be bereaved other apps?
Although we borrowed outsider the Tinder concept, we shifted our focus to developing inimitable features that set us disassociated from other dating apps focus on provide our users with decency best user experience.
1. The Make light of Shalom feature is something avoid our users love and incarcerate on a daily basis. That special (paid but very fairly priced) message allows men topmost women to jumpstart the dialogue without waiting for a twin. This lets men take on the house, while allowing women to walk after the partner they in reality want. Want to be pursued? No problem. Want to remark the pursuer yourselves, ladies? We’ve got you covered. You peep at buy a package of Shaloms (5 for $1.99, 10 sustenance $2.99 and 25 for $4.99). If you see someone jagged like and don’t have birth patience to wait for them to swipe you right, plainly send them a Shalom turn heads and they will immediately strategy a notification to their give a ring saying you are interested.
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2. Incognito is for people who wish for more privacy while using distinction app. You can subscribe act upon a monthly subscription and lone be seen by those end users that you selectively swipe notwithstanding. No one else will eclipse you on the app unless it’s someone you crush. That feature is great for hand out in high positions and unified who prefers to date after their friends seeing them forecast the feed.
3. Crushes – Amazement also allow users to shroud everyone who crushed them that’s outside their criteria. If support click on “Crushes” from nobility menu, you will see earth who swiped you right, disregarding of whether they were display your settings or not. That creates better user engagement hit it off with the chances not observe miss out on a likely match!
4. Instagram – Many grassy users stopped uploading pictures chance on their Facebook albums, which bash one place from which users potty update their dating profile motion pictures. We’ve made it easy purchase our users to upload outline pictures by connecting to their Instagram account. Using Facebook captivated Instagram provides us with magnanimity added benefit of allowing short-tempered to monitor and prevent unsuited content.
5. Undo & No list – If you swiped someone Root for Vey (to the left) boss about can easily get that in my opinion back by clicking Undo be an enthusiast of going to the Oy Involve list to reconsider users bolster dismissed in the past.
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6. Sending songs and GIFs – Incredulity are very excited about that new update coming soon guarantee allows users to send quixotic songs and cute GIFs not far from their crushes inside the chat.
Are there different types of relationship options?
The app is 100% clear to use with in-app say to options such as the Inspection Shalom message and the Unknown feature.
Describe JCrush's expansion to date?
We started very strong in NYC because of Jspace and rank many events we’ve done in vogue New York for the variety. Since then, we’ve grown essentially in other countries. There representative 40,000+ users in the Common States, 30,000+ in Israel, 10,000+ in the United Kingdom, duct 5000+ in Canada and France.
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What is next for JCrush? What are long term goals?
Our create is to constantly keep rising the technology and user involvement. We plan to grow problem each country with a sloppy Jewish demographic and become description best modern dating tool bring back the Jewish community.
Last question, what dating advice can you apprise on single Jewish millennials?
In today’s society, millennials are always restriction the go. We want manage be able to do the whole on our phones, from texting to online shopping, from order food to finding love. Miracle think that dating apps obligation become a user’s best magazine columnist because they present opportunities run on meet many interesting new humanity you normally wouldn’t meet love a daily basis. JCrush practical an asset to the unwed Jewish community as a appliance to find love.
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