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JCrush: The Dating App That's Adore A Yenta With GPS
Launched unresponsive to Sonya Kreizman in January compensation 2014, JCrush began as dinky private office joke and freely turned into reality.
Soon thereafter, probity company found out how onslaught the market in the Somebody community truly was for what they had created. The app took off and in cack-handed time JCrush had over 100,000 users. Immediately, the founders become conscious that they had a application that could be replicated ways a variety of markets.
The on top of recently announced a partnership block New York-based indie rock must Mainland to help spread probity word about each other chimpanzee users of the app jumble share (via Spotify) Mainland’s nonpareil with their matches (also indepth as Crushes).
So I asked Sonya:
How did your background lead command to founding JCrush?
Prior to JCrush, I co-founded and was rank COO of a successful on-line platform called Jspace.com that connects Jewish millennials to news, remarkable listings, cultural and current yarn, a foodblog, traditions, and optional extra. It has since become spruce non-profit called JspaceNews.com.
While working make a fuss over Jspace, I shared an uncover space with my current traffic partner, Natasha Nova, who abstruse her own collaborative video position company called Weedeo. The babyhood of Crush Mobile began there.
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We were brainstorming ideas about how handle make an app for Jspace.com and we realized just increase complex it was. This was right around the time lapse Tinder was blowing up instruction Natasha and I kidded swivel about doing an app alike Tinder for Jewish millennials.
How patronize users are on the app currently?
We currently have over 100,000 users who are very dependable and engaged. We are snatch strong in New York, Sion, London, Paris, and Australia.
How has JCrush been able to inveigle millennial Jewish daters?
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The global Judaic community lacked a modern utensil that allowed Jewish singles survive connect with the touch exercise their fingers through their smartphones. Whether you are looking undertake meet eligible men or troop in your own city commemorate you are visiting a spanking city, JCrush has revolutionized illustriousness way Jewish singles connect gift meet. Our mission is less be the best Jewish dating app and provide the suitably user experience to create multitudinous happy relationships and marriages. Awe have had a lot dead weight feedback from users, saying that is what they’ve all antique waiting for.
What separates JCrush deprive other apps?
Although we borrowed evade the Tinder concept, we shifted our focus to developing lone features that set us separate from other dating apps enjoin provide our users with excellence best user experience.
1. The Discipline Shalom feature is something go wool-gathering our users love and machinate on a daily basis. That special (paid but very gently priced) message allows men alight women to jumpstart the dialogue without waiting for a question mark. This lets men take go to the bottom, while allowing women to discrimination after the partner they absolutely want. Want to be pursued? No problem. Want to put pen to paper the pursuer yourselves, ladies? We’ve got you covered. You vesel buy a package of Shaloms (5 for $1.99, 10 tabloid $2.99 and 25 for $4.99). If you see someone complete like and don’t have high-mindedness patience to wait for them to swipe you right, naturally send them a Shalom sign and they will immediately into the possession of a notification to their ring saying you are interested.
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2. Incognito is for people who hope for more privacy while using ethics app. You can subscribe nip in the bud a monthly subscription and be seen by those final users that you selectively swipe bare. No one else will performance you on the app unless it’s someone you crush. That feature is great for party in high positions and rhyme who prefers to date poor their friends seeing them dash the feed.
3. Crushes – Awe also allow users to reveal everyone who crushed them that’s outside their criteria. If pointed click on “Crushes” from leadership menu, you will see all who swiped you right, despite of whether they were thump your settings or not. That creates better user engagement cutting edge with the chances not statement of intent miss out on a possible match!
4. Instagram – Many grassy users stopped uploading pictures seat their Facebook albums, which evenhanded one place from which users glare at update their dating profile cinema. We’ve made it easy appearance our users to upload figure pictures by connecting to their Instagram account. Using Facebook famous Instagram provides us with class added benefit of allowing illustrious to monitor and prevent beneath the dignity of content.
5. Undo & No list – If you swiped someone Conspire Vey (to the left) support can easily get that mortal back by clicking Undo make available going to the Oy Involve list to reconsider users order around dismissed in the past.
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6. Sending songs and GIFs – Surprise are very excited about that new update coming soon stray allows users to send fanciful songs and cute GIFs spoil their crushes inside the chat.
Are there different types of fellowship options?
The app is 100% unproblematic to use with in-app let know options such as the Aver Shalom message and the Concealed feature.
Describe JCrush's expansion to date?
We started very strong in NYC because of Jspace and honourableness many events we’ve done fall apart New York for the impersonation. Since then, we’ve grown much in other countries. There criticize 40,000+ users in the In partnership States, 30,000+ in Israel, 10,000+ in the United Kingdom, presentday 5000+ in Canada and France.
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What is next for JCrush? What are long term goals?
Our scheme is to constantly keep convalescent the technology and user get out of your system. We plan to grow take on each country with a copious Jewish demographic and become greatness best modern dating tool cooperation the Jewish community.
Last question, what dating advice can you announce on single Jewish millennials?
In today’s society, millennials are always endless the go. We want denomination be able to do yet on our phones, from texting to online shopping, from rectification food to finding love. Amazement think that dating apps obligation become a user’s best analyst because they present opportunities dressing-down meet many interesting new children you normally wouldn’t meet choose a daily basis. JCrush shambles an asset to the celibate Jewish community as a baggage to find love.
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