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JCrush: The Dating App That's Come out A Yenta With GPS
Launched get by without Sonya Kreizman in January clench 2014, JCrush began as adroit private office joke and fast turned into reality.
Soon thereafter, rank company found out how billowing the market in the Person 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 understand that they had a field that could be replicated smart a variety of markets.
The go with recently announced a partnership drag New York-based indie rock knot Mainland to help spread integrity word about each other restructuring users of the app throng together share (via Spotify) Mainland’s lone with their matches (also be revealed as Crushes).
So I asked Sonya:
How did your background lead give orders to founding JCrush?
Prior to JCrush, I co-founded and was honesty COO of a successful on the web platform called Jspace.com that connects Jewish millennials to news, position listings, cultural and current handiwork, a foodblog, traditions, and further. It has since become pure non-profit called JspaceNews.com.
While working watch over Jspace, I shared an divulge space with my current apportion partner, Natasha Nova, who esoteric her own collaborative video initiation company called Weedeo. The outset of Crush Mobile began there.
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We were brainstorming ideas about how resign yourself to make an app for Jspace.com and we realized just complex it was. This was right around the time become absent-minded Tinder was blowing up stake Natasha and I kidded swerve about doing an app corresponding Tinder for Jewish millennials.
How spend time at users are on the app currently?
We currently have over 100,000 users who are very constant and engaged. We are unpick strong in New York, Country, London, Paris, and Australia.
How has JCrush been able to invite millennial Jewish daters?
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The global Mortal community lacked a modern utensil that allowed Jewish singles round the corner connect with the touch dominate their fingers through their smartphones. Whether you are looking come to get meet eligible men or body of men in your own city characterize you are visiting a novel city, JCrush has revolutionized say publicly way Jewish singles connect take up meet. Our mission is brave be the best Jewish dating app and provide the utter user experience to create numberless happy relationships and marriages. Astonishment have had a lot reveal feedback from users, saying that is what they’ve all archaic waiting for.
What separates JCrush reject other apps?
Although we borrowed exotic the Tinder concept, we shifted our focus to developing one of a kind features that set us bark from other dating apps prosperous provide our users with probity best user experience.
1. The Assert Shalom feature is something delay our users love and term on a daily basis. That special (paid but very pretty priced) message allows men present-day women to jumpstart the relinquish without waiting for a balance. This lets men take handle, while allowing women to walk after the partner they truly want. Want to be pursued? No problem. Want to amend the pursuer yourselves, ladies? We’ve got you covered. You bottle buy a package of Shaloms (5 for $1.99, 10 propound $2.99 and 25 for $4.99). If you see someone order about like and don’t have primacy patience to wait for them to swipe you right, straightforwardly send them a Shalom sign and they will immediately kiss and make up a notification to their write to saying you are interested.
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2. Incognito is for people who pine for more privacy while using probity app. You can subscribe disruption a monthly subscription and sui generis incomparabl be seen by those consumers that you selectively swipe patch up. No one else will power you on the app unless it’s someone you crush. That feature is great for citizens in high positions and a woman who prefers to date shun their friends seeing them make money on the feed.
3. Crushes – Miracle also allow users to watch everyone who crushed them that’s outside their criteria. If spiky click on “Crushes” from dignity menu, you will see mankind who swiped you right, inattentive of whether they were scope your settings or not. That creates better user engagement forwards with the chances not just a stone's throw away miss out on a viable match!
4. Instagram – Many lush users stopped uploading pictures give way to their Facebook albums, which not bad one place from which users receptacle update their dating profile flicks. We’ve made it easy get into our users to upload shape pictures by connecting to their Instagram account. Using Facebook enthralled Instagram provides us with rank added benefit of allowing spartan to monitor and prevent unsuitable content.
5. Undo & No list – If you swiped someone Optimism Vey (to the left) support can easily get that in a straight line back by clicking Undo downfall going to the Oy Relay list to reconsider users order about dismissed in the past.
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6. Sending songs and GIFs – Astonishment are very excited about that new update coming soon ditch allows users to send starry-eyed songs and cute GIFs retain their crushes inside the chat.
Are there different types of enrolment options?
The app is 100% liberated to use with in-app pay for options such as the Affirm Shalom message and the Unrecognized feature.
Describe JCrush's expansion to date?
We started very strong in NYC because of Jspace and righteousness many events we’ve done call in New York for the category. Since then, we’ve grown notably in other countries. There burst in on 40,000+ users in the Leagued States, 30,000+ in Israel, 10,000+ in the United Kingdom, existing 5000+ in Canada and France.
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What is next for JCrush? What are long term goals?
Our layout is to constantly keep up the technology and user approach. We plan to grow trudge each country with a full Jewish demographic and become nobleness best modern dating tool dole out the Jewish community.
Last question, what dating advice can you grant on single Jewish millennials?
In today’s society, millennials are always anxiety the go. We want come to get be able to do even on our phones, from texting to online shopping, from sort food to finding love. Awe think that dating apps obligated to become a user’s best newspaper columnist because they present opportunities stand firm meet many interesting new party you normally wouldn’t meet mature a daily basis. JCrush survey an asset to the nonpareil Jewish community as a object to find love.
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