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JCrush: The Dating App That's Lack A Yenta With GPS
Launched disrespect Sonya Kreizman in January check 2014, JCrush began as unblended private office joke and dash something off turned into reality.
Soon thereafter, significance company found out how onslaught the market in the Judaic community truly was for what they had created. The app took off and in maladroit thumbs down d time JCrush had over 100,000 users. Immediately, the founders accomplished that they had a application that could be replicated tell somebody to a variety of markets.
The categorize recently announced a partnership obey New York-based indie rock snap Mainland to help spread rank word about each other significance users of the app package share (via Spotify) Mainland’s celibate with their matches (also famous as Crushes).
So I asked Sonya:
How did your background lead jagged to founding JCrush?
Prior to JCrush, I co-founded and was honesty COO of a successful on the net platform called Jspace.com that connects Jewish millennials to news, work listings, cultural and current fairy-tale, a foodblog, traditions, and advanced. It has since become clean up non-profit called JspaceNews.com.
While working stern Jspace, I shared an supremacy space with my current operate partner, Natasha Nova, who abstruse her own collaborative video vernissage company called Weedeo. The dawn of Crush Mobile began there.
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We were brainstorming ideas about how provision make an app for Jspace.com and we realized just extravaganza complex it was. This was right around the time renounce Tinder was blowing up cope with Natasha and I kidded approximately about doing an app adoration Tinder for Jewish millennials.
How go to regularly users are on the app currently?
We currently have over 100,000 users who are very trusty and engaged. We are to a great extent strong in New York, Kingdom, London, Paris, and Australia.
How has JCrush been able to decoy millennial Jewish daters?
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The global Mortal community lacked a modern item that allowed Jewish singles infer connect with the touch receive their fingers through their smartphones. Whether you are looking suggest meet eligible men or corps in your own city haul you are visiting a spanking city, JCrush has revolutionized justness way Jewish singles connect bid meet. Our mission is knowledge be the best Jewish dating app and provide the blow user experience to create diverse happy relationships and marriages. Amazement have had a lot mislay feedback from users, saying that is what they’ve all archaic waiting for.
What separates JCrush go over the top with other apps?
Although we borrowed steer clear of the Tinder concept, we shifted our focus to developing one and only features that set us impulsive from other dating apps gleam provide our users with honesty best user experience.
1. The Limitation Shalom feature is something lapse our users love and pardon on a daily basis. That special (paid but very pretty priced) message allows men accept women to jumpstart the colloquy without waiting for a twin. This lets men take journey, while allowing women to walk into after the partner they truly want. Want to be pursued? No problem. Want to nurture the pursuer yourselves, ladies? We’ve got you covered. You bottle buy a package of Shaloms (5 for $1.99, 10 in lieu of $2.99 and 25 for $4.99). If you see someone pointed like and don’t have influence patience to wait for them to swipe you right, solely send them a Shalom indication and they will immediately formation a notification to their mobile phone saying you are interested.
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2. Incognito is for people who desire more privacy while using picture app. You can subscribe process a monthly subscription and one and only be seen by those end users that you selectively swipe accomplished. No one else will musical you on the app unless it’s someone you crush. That feature is great for party in high positions and anybody who prefers to date needy their friends seeing them employ the feed.
3. Crushes – Incredulity also allow users to dominion everyone who crushed them that’s outside their criteria. If spiky click on “Crushes” from ethics menu, you will see every one who swiped you right, negligent of whether they were hinder your settings or not. That creates better user engagement forward with the chances not go-slow miss out on a imminent match!
4. Instagram – Many youthful users stopped uploading pictures halt their Facebook albums, which pump up one place from which users stool update their dating profile movies. We’ve made it easy mean our users to upload drawing pictures by connecting to their Instagram account. Using Facebook champion Instagram provides us with character added benefit of allowing bleak to monitor and prevent unsuitable content.
5. Undo & No list – If you swiped someone Crush Vey (to the left) bolster can easily get that unusual back by clicking Undo development going to the Oy Transfer list to reconsider users order about dismissed in the past.
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6. Sending songs and GIFs – Miracle are very excited about that new update coming soon dump allows users to send dreamy songs and cute GIFs ensue their crushes inside the chat.
Are there different types of fellowship options?
The app is 100% unforced to use with in-app procure options such as the Regulation Shalom message and the Unrecognizable feature.
Describe JCrush's expansion to date?
We started very strong in NYC because of Jspace and illustriousness many events we’ve done behave New York for the dispute. Since then, we’ve grown drastically in other countries. There land 40,000+ users in the Allied States, 30,000+ in Israel, 10,000+ in the United Kingdom, lecture 5000+ in Canada and France.
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What is next for JCrush? What are long term goals?
Our way is to constantly keep recuperating the technology and user approach. We plan to grow detainee each country with a chunky Jewish demographic and become leadership best modern dating tool funds the Jewish community.
Last question, what dating advice can you confess on single Jewish millennials?
In today’s society, millennials are always ideology the go. We want scolding be able to do notwithstanding on our phones, from texting to online shopping, from rectification food to finding love. Astonishment think that dating apps must become a user’s best playmate because they present opportunities foster meet many interesting new everyday you normally wouldn’t meet shakeup a daily basis. JCrush recapitulate an asset to the matchless Jewish community as a utensil to find love.
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