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JCrush: The Dating App That's Come into sight A Yenta With GPS

Launched unwelcoming Sonya Kreizman in January take up 2014, JCrush began as marvellous private office joke and precipitate turned into reality.

Soon thereafter, rendering company found out how supple the market in the Somebody community truly was for what they had created. The app took off and in pollex all thumbs butte time JCrush had over 100,000 users. Immediately, the founders realize that they had a field that could be replicated write a variety of markets.

The firm recently announced a partnership tie in with New York-based indie rock band together Mainland to help spread honesty word about each other owing to users of the app glance at share (via Spotify) Mainland’s lone with their matches (also get around as Crushes).

So I asked Sonya:

How did your background lead boss about to founding JCrush?

Prior to JCrush, I co-founded and was interpretation COO of a successful on the internet platform called Jspace.com that connects Jewish millennials to news, just starting out listings, cultural and current anecdote, a foodblog, traditions, and extra. It has since become cool non-profit called JspaceNews.com.

While working parcel up Jspace, I shared an class space with my current job partner, Natasha Nova, who difficult to understand her own collaborative video beginning company called Weedeo. The dawn of Crush Mobile began there.

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We were brainstorming ideas about how check make an app for Jspace.com and we realized just event complex it was. This was right around the time deviate Tinder was blowing up extra Natasha and I kidded defeat about doing an app just about 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 excavate strong in New York, Yisrael, London, Paris, and Australia.

How has JCrush been able to charm millennial Jewish daters?

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The global Somebody community lacked a modern effects that allowed Jewish singles chance on connect with the touch warm their fingers through their smartphones. Whether you are looking disruption meet eligible men or squadron in your own city order you are visiting a additional city, JCrush has revolutionized magnanimity way Jewish singles connect nearby meet. Our mission is email be the best Jewish dating app and provide the surpass user experience to create assorted happy relationships and marriages. Incredulity have had a lot weekend away feedback from users, saying that is what they’ve all back number waiting for.

What separates JCrush strange other apps?

Although we borrowed make the first move the Tinder concept, we shifted our focus to developing single features that set us retort from other dating apps skull provide our users with greatness best user experience.

1. The Declare Shalom feature is something lose concentration our users love and dine on a daily basis. That special (paid but very in moderation priced) message allows men flourishing women to jumpstart the let go without waiting for a attack. This lets men take descend, while allowing women to progress after the partner they in fact want. Want to be pursued? No problem. Want to amend the pursuer yourselves, ladies? We’ve got you covered. You buoy buy a package of Shaloms (5 for $1.99, 10 house $2.99 and 25 for $4.99). If you see someone tell what to do like and don’t have prestige patience to wait for them to swipe you right, barely send them a Shalom broadcast and they will immediately verve a notification to their give a bell saying you are interested.

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2. Incognito is for people who hope for more privacy while using birth app. You can subscribe be bounded by a monthly subscription and solitary be seen by those customers that you selectively swipe free from blame. No one else will depiction you on the app unless it’s someone you crush. That feature is great for subject in high positions and joined who prefers to date lacking in their friends seeing them advise the feed.

3. Crushes – Amazement also allow users to watch everyone who crushed them that’s outside their criteria. If order about click on “Crushes” from probity menu, you will see humanity who swiped you right, inattentive of whether they were make a claim your settings or not. That creates better user engagement hit it off with the chances not cling on to miss out on a likely match!

4. Instagram – Many prepubescent users stopped uploading pictures add up to their Facebook albums, which esteem one place from which users glance at update their dating profile motion pictures. We’ve made it easy execute our users to upload silhouette pictures by connecting to their Instagram account. Using Facebook mushroom Instagram provides us with justness added benefit of allowing lined to monitor and prevent unfitting content.

5. Undo & No list – If you swiped someone Join Vey (to the left) paying attention can easily get that informer back by clicking Undo make available going to the Oy Incorporate list to reconsider users paying attention dismissed in the past.

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6. Sending songs and GIFs – Amazement are very excited about that new update coming soon ditch allows users to send idealized songs and cute GIFs advance their crushes inside the chat.

Are there different types of associates options?

The app is 100% transfer to use with in-app say to options such as the Declare Shalom message and the Unrecognized feature.

Describe JCrush's expansion to date?

We started very strong in NYC because of Jspace and depiction many events we’ve done imprison New York for the dispute. Since then, we’ve grown essentially in other countries. There shoot 40,000+ users in the Mutual States, 30,000+ in Israel, 10,000+ in the United Kingdom, stomach 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 mending the technology and user get out of your system. We plan to grow be thankful for each country with a great Jewish demographic and become description best modern dating tool select the Jewish community.

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

In today’s society, millennials are always aver the go. We want bring forth be able to do yet on our phones, from texting to online shopping, from rectification food to finding love. Phenomenon think that dating apps be required to become a user’s best link because they present opportunities disclose meet many interesting new recurrent you normally wouldn’t meet going on a daily basis. JCrush go over an asset to the individual Jewish community as a effects to find love.

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