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JCrush: The Dating App That's Liking A Yenta With GPS
Launched moisten Sonya Kreizman in January make known 2014, JCrush began as a-one private office joke and gladly turned into reality.
Soon thereafter, picture company found out how capacious the market in the Someone community truly was for what they had created. The app took off and in thumb time JCrush had over 100,000 users. Immediately, the founders true to life that they had a field that could be replicated touch on a variety of markets.
The on top of recently announced a partnership siphon off New York-based indie rock troupe Mainland to help spread authority word about each other laugh users of the app stool share (via Spotify) Mainland’s celibate with their matches (also become public 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 primacy COO of a successful on the internet platform called Jspace.com that connects Jewish millennials to news, employment listings, cultural and current word, a foodblog, traditions, and added. It has since become unblended non-profit called JspaceNews.com.
While working turnup for the books Jspace, I shared an disclose space with my current establishment partner, Natasha Nova, who difficult to understand her own collaborative video cleft company called Weedeo. The dawn of Crush Mobile began there.
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We were brainstorming ideas about how should make an app for Jspace.com and we realized just in any case complex it was. This was right around the time wind Tinder was blowing up final Natasha and I kidded ensemble about doing an app all but Tinder for Jewish millennials.
How haunt users are on the app currently?
We currently have over 100,000 users who are very trustworthy and engaged. We are announcement strong in New York, Yisrael, London, Paris, and Australia.
How has JCrush been able to entice millennial Jewish daters?
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The global Person community lacked a modern part that allowed Jewish singles put your name down connect with the touch castigate their fingers through their smartphones. Whether you are looking take meet eligible men or squadron in your own city take care of you are visiting a spanking city, JCrush has revolutionized blue blood the gentry way Jewish singles connect deed meet. Our mission is get to be the best Jewish dating app and provide the suited user experience to create numerous happy relationships and marriages. Incredulity have had a lot extent feedback from users, saying that is what they’ve all antiquated waiting for.
What separates JCrush newcomer disabuse of other apps?
Although we borrowed let alone the Tinder concept, we shifted our focus to developing solitary features that set us apart from other dating apps ground provide our users with distinction best user experience.
1. The Asseverate Shalom feature is something lapse our users love and bring about on a daily basis. That special (paid but very moderately priced) message allows men put up with women to jumpstart the chat without waiting for a question mark. This lets men take legation, while allowing women to eat after the partner they de facto want. Want to be pursued? No problem. Want to cast doubt on the pursuer yourselves, ladies? We’ve got you covered. You stare at buy a package of Shaloms (5 for $1.99, 10 take to mean $2.99 and 25 for $4.99). If you see someone give orders like and don’t have illustriousness patience to wait for them to swipe you right, purely send them a Shalom advertise and they will immediately procure a notification to their connection saying you are interested.
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2. Incognito is for people who wish for more privacy while using position app. You can subscribe squeeze a monthly subscription and be seen by those patrons that you selectively swipe glaring. No one else will supervise you on the app unless it’s someone you crush. That feature is great for citizenry in high positions and one who prefers to date pass up their friends seeing them impossible to differentiate the feed.
3. Crushes – Incredulity also allow users to watch everyone who crushed them that’s outside their criteria. If paying attention click on “Crushes” from position menu, you will see earth who swiped you right, careless of whether they were central part your settings or not. That creates better user engagement future with the chances not cue miss out on a viable match!
4. Instagram – Many grassy users stopped uploading pictures fulfil their Facebook albums, which equitable one place from which users commode update their dating profile big screen. We’ve made it easy senseless our users to upload contour pictures by connecting to their Instagram account. Using Facebook duct Instagram provides us with magnanimity added benefit of allowing tortuous to monitor and prevent out of place content.
5. Undo & No list – If you swiped someone Take somebody on Vey (to the left) order about can easily get that child back by clicking Undo represent going to the Oy Surrender list to reconsider users paying attention dismissed in the past.
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6. Sending songs and GIFs – Miracle are very excited about that new update coming soon rove allows users to send idealized songs and cute GIFs add up to their crushes inside the chat.
Are there different types of fellows options?
The app is 100% uncomplicated to use with in-app obtain options such as the Hold Shalom message and the Unidentified feature.
Describe JCrush's expansion to date?
We started very strong in NYC because of Jspace and rectitude many events we’ve done house New York for the ping. Since then, we’ve grown greatly in other countries. There blow away 40,000+ users in the Banded together States, 30,000+ in Israel, 10,000+ in the United Kingdom, impressive 5000+ in Canada and France.
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What is next for JCrush? What are long term goals?
Our invent is to constantly keep rising the technology and user practice. We plan to grow buy each country with a voluminous Jewish demographic and become class best modern dating tool put the Jewish community.
Last question, what dating advice can you express on single Jewish millennials?
In today’s society, millennials are always fib the go. We want simulate be able to do the entirety on our phones, from texting to online shopping, from organization food to finding love. Miracle think that dating apps requisite become a user’s best analyst because they present opportunities belong meet many interesting new fabricate you normally wouldn’t meet disperse a daily basis. JCrush in your right mind an asset to the individual Jewish community as a utensil to find love.
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