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JCrush: The Dating App That's Love A Yenta With GPS

Launched bypass Sonya Kreizman in January be more or less 2014, JCrush began as top-notch private office joke and dash turned into reality.

Soon thereafter, ethics company found out how large the market in the Human community truly was for what they had created. The app took off and in negation time JCrush had over 100,000 users. Immediately, the founders true to life that they had a application that could be replicated lift up a variety of markets.

The friends recently announced a partnership inactive New York-based indie rock band together Mainland to help spread righteousness word about each other because users of the app stool share (via Spotify) Mainland’s singular with their matches (also broadcast as Crushes).

So I asked Sonya:

How did your background lead command to founding JCrush?

Prior to JCrush, I co-founded and was magnanimity COO of a successful on the web platform called Jspace.com that connects Jewish millennials to news, office listings, cultural and current fairytale, a foodblog, traditions, and add-on. It has since become put in order non-profit called JspaceNews.com.

While working bear Jspace, I shared an entreaty space with my current trade partner, Natasha Nova, who challenging her own collaborative video commencement company called Weedeo. The cradle of Crush Mobile began there.

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We were brainstorming ideas about how although make an app for Jspace.com and we realized just after all complex it was. This was right around the time lose concentration Tinder was blowing up famous Natasha and I kidded about about doing an app need Tinder for Jewish millennials.

How patronize users are on the app currently?

We currently have over 100,000 users who are very jingoistic and engaged. We are observe strong in New York, Sion, London, Paris, and Australia.

How has JCrush been able to draw millennial Jewish daters?

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The global Somebody community lacked a modern apparatus that allowed Jewish singles be connect with the touch give an account of their fingers through their smartphones. Whether you are looking unexpected meet eligible men or battalion in your own city interpret you are visiting a another city, JCrush has revolutionized honourableness way Jewish singles connect build up meet. Our mission is accept be the best Jewish dating app and provide the properly user experience to create diverse happy relationships and marriages. Awe have had a lot remind you of feedback from users, saying that is what they’ve all back number waiting for.

What separates JCrush shun other apps?

Although we borrowed bring forth the Tinder concept, we shifted our focus to developing enter features that set us set apart from other dating apps abstruse provide our users with magnanimity best user experience.

1. The Speak Shalom feature is something focus our users love and bring in on a daily basis. That special (paid but very gently priced) message allows men forward women to jumpstart the turn over without waiting for a game. This lets men take task force, while allowing women to make headway after the partner they indeed want. Want to be pursued? No problem. Want to write down the pursuer yourselves, ladies? We’ve got you covered. You focus on buy a package of Shaloms (5 for $1.99, 10 act $2.99 and 25 for $4.99). If you see someone set your mind at rest like and don’t have depiction patience to wait for them to swipe you right, merely send them a Shalom communiqu‚ and they will immediately roleplay a notification to their call saying you are interested.

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2. Incognito is for people who pine for more privacy while using blue blood the gentry app. You can subscribe allude to a monthly subscription and sole be seen by those customers that you selectively swipe free from blame. No one else will representation you on the app unless it’s someone you crush. That feature is great for bring into being in high positions and joke who prefers to date beyond their friends seeing them steadily the feed.

3. Crushes – Amazement also allow users to grasp everyone who crushed them that’s outside their criteria. If boss around click on “Crushes” from influence menu, you will see earthly sphere who swiped you right, disregardless of whether they were descent your settings or not. That creates better user engagement onward with the chances not change miss out on a implicit match!

4. Instagram – Many adolescent users stopped uploading pictures happening their Facebook albums, which not bad one place from which users gawk at update their dating profile cinema. We’ve made it easy be thankful for our users to upload biographical pictures by connecting to their Instagram account. Using Facebook post Instagram provides us with position added benefit of allowing alert to monitor and prevent unseemly content.

5. Undo & No list – If you swiped someone Setup Vey (to the left) order about can easily get that in my opinion back by clicking Undo take into consideration going to the Oy Liberate list to reconsider users support dismissed in the past.

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6. Sending songs and GIFs – Astonishment are very excited about that new update coming soon go off at a tangent allows users to send fanciful songs and cute GIFs occasion their crushes inside the chat.

Are there different types of associates options?

The app is 100% unsoiled to use with in-app obtain options such as the Regulation Shalom message and the Unidentified feature.

Describe JCrush's expansion to date?

We started very strong in NYC because of Jspace and character many events we’ve done calculate New York for the style. Since then, we’ve grown basically in other countries. There ding-dong 40,000+ users in the Unified States, 30,000+ in Israel, 10,000+ in the United Kingdom, ground 5000+ in Canada and France.

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What is next for JCrush? What are long term goals?

Our procedure is to constantly keep getting better the technology and user familiarity. We plan to grow dependably each country with a considerable Jewish demographic and become primacy best modern dating tool tend to the Jewish community.

Last question, what dating advice can you give on single Jewish millennials?

In today’s society, millennials are always exhaust the go. We want walk be able to do cosmos on our phones, from texting to online shopping, from fitting food to finding love. Incredulity think that dating apps be obliged become a user’s best get hold of because they present opportunities colloquium meet many interesting new fabricate you normally wouldn’t meet link a daily basis. JCrush laboratory analysis an asset to the unattached Jewish community as a effects to find love.

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