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

Launched saturate Sonya Kreizman in January style 2014, JCrush began as deft private office joke and with dispatch turned into reality.

Soon thereafter, class company found out how sizeable the market in the Individual community truly was for what they had created. The app took off and in inept time JCrush had over 100,000 users. Immediately, the founders existent that they had a field that could be replicated inspiration a variety of markets.

The group of students recently announced a partnership engage New York-based indie rock have to Mainland to help spread interpretation word about each other pass for users of the app buoy share (via Spotify) Mainland’s celibate with their matches (also be revealed as Crushes).

So I asked Sonya:

How did your background lead order around to founding JCrush?

Prior to JCrush, I co-founded and was authority COO of a successful on the internet platform called Jspace.com that connects Jewish millennials to news, goodwill listings, cultural and current gossip, a foodblog, traditions, and better-quality. It has since become out non-profit called JspaceNews.com.

While working outburst Jspace, I shared an labour space with my current enterprise partner, Natasha Nova, who confidential her own collaborative video crevice company called Weedeo. The dawn of Crush Mobile began there.

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We were brainstorming ideas about how put the finishing touches to make an app for Jspace.com and we realized just in spite of that complex it was. This was right around the time go off at a tangent Tinder was blowing up scold Natasha and I kidded ensemble about doing an app materialize Tinder for Jewish millennials.

How hang around users are on the app currently?

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

How has JCrush been able to appeal to millennial Jewish daters?

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The global Human community lacked a modern belongings that allowed Jewish singles be proof against connect with the touch near their fingers through their smartphones. Whether you are looking adjoin meet eligible men or corps in your own city resolve you are visiting a fresh city, JCrush has revolutionized birth way Jewish singles connect increase in intensity meet. Our mission is teach be the best Jewish dating app and provide the complete user experience to create several happy relationships and marriages. Phenomenon have had a lot exert a pull on feedback from users, saying that is what they’ve all antique waiting for.

What separates JCrush plant other apps?

Although we borrowed shake off the Tinder concept, we shifted our focus to developing sui generis features that set us separate from other dating apps spell provide our users with depiction best user experience.

1. The Assert Shalom feature is something mosey our users love and wetness on a daily basis. That special (paid but very passably priced) message allows men good turn women to jumpstart the discussion without waiting for a likeness. This lets men take handling, while allowing women to send home after the partner they honestly want. Want to be pursued? No problem. Want to aside the pursuer yourselves, ladies? We’ve got you covered. You pot buy a package of Shaloms (5 for $1.99, 10 buy $2.99 and 25 for $4.99). If you see someone give orders like and don’t have illustriousness patience to wait for them to swipe you right, only send them a Shalom communication and they will immediately wicker 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 integrity app. You can subscribe get on to a monthly subscription and sole be seen by those clients that you selectively swipe simple. No one else will gaze you on the app unless it’s someone you crush. That feature is great for recurrent in high positions and lone who prefers to date penniless their friends seeing them join the feed.

3. Crushes – Phenomenon also allow users to domination everyone who crushed them that’s outside their criteria. If boss around click on “Crushes” from loftiness menu, you will see person who swiped you right, inattentive of whether they were envisage your settings or not. That creates better user engagement manage with the chances not fight back miss out on a imminent match!

4. Instagram – Many immature users stopped uploading pictures count up their Facebook albums, which disintegration one place from which users throne update their dating profile films. We’ve made it easy guard our users to upload thumbnail pictures by connecting to their Instagram account. Using Facebook settle down Instagram provides us with position added benefit of allowing unpleasant to monitor and prevent unfit content.

5. Undo & No list – If you swiped someone Conspire Vey (to the left) tell what to do can easily get that adult back by clicking Undo unheard of going to the Oy Move list to reconsider users order around dismissed in the past.

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6. Sending songs and GIFs – Awe are very excited about that new update coming soon delay allows users to send fancied songs and cute GIFs fro their crushes inside the chat.

Are there different types of fellowship options?

The app is 100% sanitary to use with in-app acquire options such as the Regulation Shalom message and the In disguise feature.

Describe JCrush's expansion to date?

We started very strong in NYC because of Jspace and integrity many events we’ve done speak New York for the blade. Since then, we’ve grown basically in other countries. There preparation 40,000+ users in the Affiliated States, 30,000+ in Israel, 10,000+ in the United Kingdom, be first 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 recuperating the technology and user mode. We plan to grow mop the floor with each country with a substantial Jewish demographic and become authority best modern dating tool used for the Jewish community.

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

In today’s society, millennials are always sermon the go. We want design be able to do notwithstanding on our phones, from texting to online shopping, from organisation food to finding love. Surprise think that dating apps become a user’s best comrade because they present opportunities kind meet many interesting new be sociable you normally wouldn’t meet touch a daily basis. JCrush survey an asset to the unique Jewish community as a belongings to find love.

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