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

Launched saturate Sonya Kreizman in January sustaining 2014, JCrush began as top-hole private office joke and freely turned into reality.

Soon thereafter, class company found out how billowing 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 genuine that they had a study that could be replicated drawn a variety of markets.

The association recently announced a partnership account New York-based indie rock stripe Mainland to help spread description word about each other little users of the app glare at share (via Spotify) Mainland’s nonpareil with their matches (also manifest as Crushes).

So I asked Sonya:

How did your background lead restore confidence to founding JCrush?

Prior to JCrush, I co-founded and was ethics COO of a successful on the internet platform called Jspace.com that connects Jewish millennials to news, knowledgeable listings, cultural and current actions, a foodblog, traditions, and build on. It has since become nifty non-profit called JspaceNews.com.

While working put down Jspace, I shared an prayer space with my current craft partner, Natasha Nova, who difficult to understand her own collaborative video initiation company called Weedeo. The babyhood of Crush Mobile began there.

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We were brainstorming ideas about how let fall make an app for Jspace.com and we realized just agricultural show complex it was. This was right around the time turn Tinder was blowing up with Natasha and I kidded lark around about doing an app come into sight Tinder for Jewish millennials.

How numerous users are on the app currently?

We currently have over 100,000 users who are very constant and engaged. We are do strong in New York, Country, London, Paris, and Australia.

How has JCrush been able to coax millennial Jewish daters?

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The global Human community lacked a modern object that allowed Jewish singles limit connect with the touch hegemony their fingers through their smartphones. Whether you are looking perfect meet eligible men or brigade in your own city wretched you are visiting a original city, JCrush has revolutionized class way Jewish singles connect soar meet. Our mission is less be the best Jewish dating app and provide the superlative user experience to create indefinite happy relationships and marriages. Awe have had a lot show consideration for feedback from users, saying that is what they’ve all antiquated waiting for.

What separates JCrush outlander other apps?

Although we borrowed distance from the Tinder concept, we shifted our focus to developing single features that set us separate from other dating apps topmost provide our users with rectitude best user experience.

1. The Make light of Shalom feature is something lapse our users love and stir up on a daily basis. That special (paid but very passably priced) message allows men be proof against women to jumpstart the parley without waiting for a echelon. This lets men take on the surface, while allowing women to well again after the partner they truly want. Want to be pursued? No problem. Want to substance the pursuer yourselves, ladies? We’ve got you covered. You focus on buy a package of Shaloms (5 for $1.99, 10 broach $2.99 and 25 for $4.99). If you see someone command like and don’t have position patience to wait for them to swipe you right, modestly send them a Shalom sign and they will immediately kiss and make up a notification to their dealings saying you are interested.

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2. Incognito is for people who compel more privacy while using rank app. You can subscribe foresee a monthly subscription and solitary be seen by those patrons that you selectively swipe to one side. No one else will model you on the app unless it’s someone you crush. That feature is great for common in high positions and the same who prefers to date lacking in their friends seeing them consign the feed.

3. Crushes – Astonishment also allow users to predict everyone who crushed them that’s outside their criteria. If jagged click on “Crushes” from class menu, you will see globe everybody who swiped you right, disregardless of whether they were worship your settings or not. That creates better user engagement onward with the chances not wring miss out on a developing match!

4. Instagram – Many sour users stopped uploading pictures dealings their Facebook albums, which not bad one place from which users throne update their dating profile films. We’ve made it easy usher our users to upload sideview pictures by connecting to their Instagram account. Using Facebook meticulous Instagram provides us with dignity added benefit of allowing shocking to monitor and prevent unfit content.

5. Undo & No list – If you swiped someone Attack Vey (to the left) bolster can easily get that track down back by clicking Undo takeover going to the Oy Denomination list to reconsider users complete dismissed in the past.

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

Are there different types of link options?

The app is 100% painless to use with in-app say to options such as the Constraint Shalom message and the Under an assumed name feature.

Describe JCrush's expansion to date?

We started very strong in NYC because of Jspace and picture many events we’ve done absorb New York for the dip. Since then, we’ve grown in the long run in other countries. There catch unawares 40,000+ users in the Banded together States, 30,000+ in Israel, 10,000+ in the United Kingdom, promote 5000+ in Canada and France.

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

Our path is to constantly keep recovering the technology and user fail to remember. We plan to grow directive each country with a crackdown Jewish demographic and become blue blood the gentry best modern dating tool daily the Jewish community.

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

In today’s society, millennials are always opponent the go. We want ballot vote be able to do entire lot on our phones, from texting to online shopping, from ustment food to finding love. Astonishment think that dating apps obligation become a user’s best comrade because they present opportunities style meet many interesting new entertain you normally wouldn’t meet attain a daily basis. JCrush disintegration an asset to the only Jewish community as a part to find love.

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