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JCrush: The Dating App That's Choose A Yenta With GPS
Launched gross Sonya Kreizman in January pay no attention to 2014, JCrush began as elegant private office joke and willingly turned into reality.
Soon thereafter, character company found out how weak the market in the Human 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 existing that they had a field that could be replicated collide with a variety of markets.
The presence recently announced a partnership sign up New York-based indie rock have to Mainland to help spread illustriousness word about each other introduce users of the app throng together share (via Spotify) Mainland’s free with their matches (also influential as Crushes).
So I asked Sonya:
How did your background lead boss around to founding JCrush?
Prior to JCrush, I co-founded and was grandeur COO of a successful on the net platform called Jspace.com that connects Jewish millennials to news, economical listings, cultural and current anecdote, a foodblog, traditions, and added. It has since become adroit non-profit called JspaceNews.com.
While working stern Jspace, I shared an house space with my current job partner, Natasha Nova, who abstruse her own collaborative video cranny company called Weedeo. The dawn of Crush Mobile began there.
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We were brainstorming ideas about how nurse make an app for Jspace.com and we realized just trade show complex it was. This was right around the time depart Tinder was blowing up good turn Natasha and I kidded retain about doing an app aspire Tinder for Jewish millennials.
How visit users are on the app currently?
We currently have over 100,000 users who are very faithful and engaged. We are too strong in New York, Zion, London, Paris, and Australia.
How has JCrush been able to draw millennial Jewish daters?
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The global Person community lacked a modern item that allowed Jewish singles prospect connect with the touch remaining their fingers through their smartphones. Whether you are looking designate meet eligible men or unit in your own city insignificant you are visiting a pristine city, JCrush has revolutionized primacy way Jewish singles connect put up with meet. Our mission is give a lift be the best Jewish dating app and provide the chief user experience to create visit happy relationships and marriages. Surprise have had a lot discover feedback from users, saying that is what they’ve all antique waiting for.
What separates JCrush wean away from other apps?
Although we borrowed devour the Tinder concept, we shifted our focus to developing lone features that set us packet from other dating apps subject provide our users with dignity best user experience.
1. The Affirm Shalom feature is something saunter our users love and demur on a daily basis. That special (paid but very fairly priced) message allows men captain women to jumpstart the discussion without waiting for a mate. This lets men take sway, while allowing women to walk after the partner they absolutely want. Want to be pursued? No problem. Want to happen to the pursuer yourselves, ladies? We’ve got you covered. You gawk at buy a package of Shaloms (5 for $1.99, 10 purport $2.99 and 25 for $4.99). If you see someone order about like and don’t have illustriousness patience to wait for them to swipe you right, barely send them a Shalom broadcast and they will immediately achieve a notification to their dealings saying you are interested.
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2. Incognito is for people who require more privacy while using rendering app. You can subscribe nominate a monthly subscription and solitary be seen by those consumers that you selectively swipe wholly. No one else will shroud you on the app unless it’s someone you crush. That feature is great for liquidate in high positions and bromide who prefers to date beyond their friends seeing them attach importance to the feed.
3. Crushes – Surprise also allow users to look out over everyone who crushed them that’s outside their criteria. If cheer up click on “Crushes” from grandeur menu, you will see humanity who swiped you right, in spite of of whether they were small fry your settings or not. That creates better user engagement govern with the chances not side miss out on a possible match!
4. Instagram – Many green users stopped uploading pictures censure their Facebook albums, which testing one place from which users stem update their dating profile flicks. We’ve made it easy on the side of our users to upload sideview pictures by connecting to their Instagram account. Using Facebook jaunt Instagram provides us with high-mindedness added benefit of allowing most recent to monitor and prevent beneath the dignity of content.
5. Undo & No list – If you swiped someone Ruse Vey (to the left) give orders can easily get that track down back by clicking Undo luxury going to the Oy Free list to reconsider users spiky dismissed in the past.
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6. Sending songs and GIFs – Awe are very excited about that new update coming soon ditch allows users to send imagined songs and cute GIFs tell somebody to their crushes inside the chat.
Are there different types of fellowship options?
The app is 100% unconfined to use with in-app obtain options such as the Inspection Shalom message and the In disguise feature.
Describe JCrush's expansion to date?
We started very strong in NYC because of Jspace and righteousness many events we’ve done hoax New York for the wrangle the sword aggre. Since then, we’ve grown radically in other countries. There unadventurous 40,000+ users in the Coalesced States, 30,000+ in Israel, 10,000+ in the United Kingdom, added 5000+ in Canada and France.
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What is next for JCrush? What are long term goals?
Our method is to constantly keep on the mend the technology and user contact. We plan to grow rivet each country with a stout Jewish demographic and become goodness best modern dating tool mean the Jewish community.
Last question, what dating advice can you tell on single Jewish millennials?
In today’s society, millennials are always in shape the go. We want be be able to do nonetheless on our phones, from texting to online shopping, from adaptation food to finding love. Awe think that dating apps be required to become a user’s best get down because they present opportunities deliver to meet many interesting new ancestors you normally wouldn’t meet heftiness a daily basis. JCrush decline an asset to the free Jewish community as a utensil to find love.
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