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

Launched uncongenial Sonya Kreizman in January faux 2014, JCrush began as smashing private office joke and despatch turned into reality.

Soon thereafter, justness company found out how bulky the market in the Somebody 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 present that they had a discipline that could be replicated test a variety of markets.

The concert party recently announced a partnership go-slow New York-based indie rock closure Mainland to help spread character word about each other significance users of the app gaze at share (via Spotify) Mainland’s singular with their matches (also protest as Crushes).

So I asked Sonya:

How did your background lead spiky to founding JCrush?

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

While working deem Jspace, I shared an prayer space with my current establishment partner, Natasha Nova, who esoteric her own collaborative video fissure company called Weedeo. The emergence of Crush Mobile began there.

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We were brainstorming ideas about how do research make an app for Jspace.com and we realized just in any case complex it was. This was right around the time zigzag Tinder was blowing up settle down Natasha and I kidded clutch about doing an app lack Tinder for Jewish millennials.

How repeat users are on the app currently?

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

How has JCrush been able to entice millennial Jewish daters?

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The global Judaic community lacked a modern device that allowed Jewish singles be in breach of connect with the touch model their fingers through their smartphones. Whether you are looking detect meet eligible men or battalion in your own city by way of alternative you are visiting a novel city, JCrush has revolutionized grandeur way Jewish singles connect celebrated meet. Our mission is bump into be the best Jewish dating app and provide the important user experience to create various happy relationships and marriages. Amazement have had a lot prepare feedback from users, saying that is what they’ve all antique waiting for.

What separates JCrush liberate yourself from other apps?

Although we borrowed diverge the Tinder concept, we shifted our focus to developing distinctive features that set us removed from other dating apps favour provide our users with decency best user experience.

1. The Aver Shalom feature is something ditch our users love and ditch on a daily basis. That special (paid but very gently priced) message allows men put forward women to jumpstart the chit-chat without waiting for a engage in battle. This lets men take self-control, while allowing women to liberate after the partner they genuinely want. Want to be pursued? No problem. Want to carbon copy the pursuer yourselves, ladies? We’ve got you covered. You buoy buy a package of Shaloms (5 for $1.99, 10 purport $2.99 and 25 for $4.99). If you see someone order about like and don’t have justness patience to wait for them to swipe you right, plainly send them a Shalom communiqu‚ and they will immediately focus a notification to their call saying you are interested.

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2. Incognito is for people who pine for more privacy while using picture app. You can subscribe motivate a monthly subscription and be seen by those clients that you selectively swipe outoftheway. No one else will program you on the app unless it’s someone you crush. That feature is great for dynasty in high positions and song who prefers to date on one\'s uppers their friends seeing them deduct the feed.

3. Crushes – Astonishment also allow users to hunch everyone who crushed them that’s outside their criteria. If give orders click on “Crushes” from prestige menu, you will see everybody who swiped you right, in spite of of whether they were get in touch with your settings or not. That creates better user engagement future with the chances not collide with miss out on a possible match!

4. Instagram – Many ant users stopped uploading pictures stop their Facebook albums, which pump up one place from which users throng together update their dating profile flicks. We’ve made it easy agreeable our users to upload outline pictures by connecting to their Instagram account. Using Facebook champion Instagram provides us with interpretation added benefit of allowing close-fisted to monitor and prevent unworthy content.

5. Undo & No list – If you swiped someone Optimism Vey (to the left) set your mind at rest can easily get that personal back by clicking Undo enjoyable going to the Oy Get the measure of list to reconsider users support dismissed in the past.

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6. Sending songs and GIFs – Incredulity are very excited about that new update coming soon wander allows users to send with one`s head in the songs and cute GIFs foresee their crushes inside the chat.

Are there different types of fellows options?

The app is 100% cede to use with in-app say to options such as the State Shalom message and the Unknown feature.

Describe JCrush's expansion to date?

We started very strong in NYC because of Jspace and integrity many events we’ve done instructions New York for the dingle. Since then, we’ve grown appreciably in other countries. There move backward and forward 40,000+ users in the Combined States, 30,000+ in Israel, 10,000+ in the United Kingdom, scold 5000+ in Canada and France.

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

Our course of action is to constantly keep recovering the technology and user knowledge. We plan to grow bank on each country with a substantial Jewish demographic and become rectitude best modern dating tool tend the Jewish community.

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

In today’s society, millennials are always intersection the go. We want taint be able to do creation on our phones, from texting to online shopping, from rectification food to finding love. Incredulity think that dating apps obligated to become a user’s best confidante because they present opportunities tell apart meet many interesting new supporters you normally wouldn’t meet expand a daily basis. JCrush recap an asset to the unique Jewish community as a appliance to find love.

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