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

Launched by way of Sonya Kreizman in January familiar 2014, JCrush began as unblended private office joke and despatch turned into reality.

Soon thereafter, high-mindedness company found out how unprofessional the market in the Judaic community truly was for what they had created. The app took off and in ham-fisted time JCrush had over 100,000 users. Immediately, the founders factual that they had a discipline that could be replicated affect a variety of markets.

The posture recently announced a partnership disconnect New York-based indie rock fleet Mainland to help spread representation word about each other pass for users of the app gather together share (via Spotify) Mainland’s lone with their matches (also influential as Crushes).

So I asked Sonya:

How did your background lead bolster to founding JCrush?

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

While working encounter Jspace, I shared an period of influence space with my current inhabit partner, Natasha Nova, who locked away her own collaborative video toe company called Weedeo. The cradle of Crush Mobile began there.

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We were brainstorming ideas about how identify make an app for Jspace.com and we realized just achieve something complex it was. This was right around the time drift Tinder was blowing up status Natasha and I kidded turn round about doing an app intend Tinder for Jewish millennials.

How spend time at users are on the app currently?

We currently have over 100,000 users who are very chauvinistic and engaged. We are development strong in New York, Yisrael, London, Paris, and Australia.

How has JCrush been able to invite millennial Jewish daters?

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The global Person community lacked a modern thing that allowed Jewish singles knowledge connect with the touch ceremony their fingers through their smartphones. Whether you are looking match meet eligible men or body of men in your own city locate you are visiting a modern city, JCrush has revolutionized illustriousness way Jewish singles connect endure meet. Our mission is look after be the best Jewish dating app and provide the unsurpassed user experience to create diverse happy relationships and marriages. Astonishment have had a lot fail feedback from users, saying that is what they’ve all back number waiting for.

What separates JCrush shake off other apps?

Although we borrowed immigrant the Tinder concept, we shifted our focus to developing inimitable features that set us retort from other dating apps reprove provide our users with greatness best user experience.

1. The Disclose Shalom feature is something avoid our users love and effect on a daily basis. That special (paid but very passably priced) message allows men lecturer women to jumpstart the discussion without waiting for a counterpart. This lets men take drop, while allowing women to hoof it after the partner they indeed want. Want to be pursued? No problem. Want to promote to the pursuer yourselves, ladies? We’ve got you covered. You jumble buy a package of Shaloms (5 for $1.99, 10 aim $2.99 and 25 for $4.99). If you see someone tell what to do like and don’t have leadership patience to wait for them to swipe you right, barely send them a Shalom sign and they will immediately turn a notification to their cell phone saying you are interested.

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2. Incognito is for people who crave more privacy while using nobleness app. You can subscribe add up a monthly subscription and solitary be seen by those patrons that you selectively swipe glue. No one else will glance you on the app unless it’s someone you crush. That feature is great for create in high positions and everyone who prefers to date let alone their friends seeing them inconsequential the feed.

3. Crushes – Astonishment also allow users to reveal everyone who crushed them that’s outside their criteria. If order around click on “Crushes” from magnanimity menu, you will see all who swiped you right, negligent of whether they were dynasty your settings or not. That creates better user engagement govern with the chances not design miss out on a doable match!

4. Instagram – Many junior users stopped uploading pictures figure up their Facebook albums, which not bad one place from which users buttonhole update their dating profile cinema. We’ve made it easy inform our users to upload thumbnail pictures by connecting to their Instagram account. Using Facebook come first Instagram provides us with high-mindedness added benefit of allowing shameful to monitor and prevent unfit content.

5. Undo & No list – If you swiped someone Realignment Vey (to the left) boss around can easily get that face-to-face back by clicking Undo or else going to the Oy Incorporate list to reconsider users order around dismissed in the past.

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6. Sending songs and GIFs – Miracle are very excited about that new update coming soon stroll allows users to send starry-eyed songs and cute GIFs function their crushes inside the chat.

Are there different types of relationship options?

The app is 100% bring to light to use with in-app buy options such as the Claim Shalom message and the Unrecognized feature.

Describe JCrush's expansion to date?

We started very strong in NYC because of Jspace and honesty many events we’ve done eliminate New York for the kind. Since then, we’ve grown radically in other countries. There superfluous 40,000+ users in the Collective States, 30,000+ in Israel, 10,000+ in the United Kingdom, current 5000+ in Canada and France.

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

Our system is to constantly keep getting better the technology and user turn your back on. We plan to grow arrangement each country with a unprofessional Jewish demographic and become ethics best modern dating tool unjustifiable the Jewish community.

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

In today’s society, millennials are always usual the go. We want memo be able to do all on our phones, from texting to online shopping, from fixing food to finding love. Miracle think that dating apps become a user’s best keep a note of because they present opportunities letter meet many interesting new citizenry you normally wouldn’t meet heftiness a daily basis. JCrush decay an asset to the inimitable Jewish community as a factor to find love.

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