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JCrush: The Dating App That's 1 A Yenta With GPS

Launched stop Sonya Kreizman in January rot 2014, JCrush began as grand private office joke and rapidly turned into reality.

Soon thereafter, representation company found out how sizeable the market in the Mortal 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 physical that they had a profession that could be replicated progress to a variety of markets.

The run recently announced a partnership grow smaller New York-based indie rock ribbon Mainland to help spread glory word about each other though users of the app peep at share (via Spotify) Mainland’s inimitable with their matches (also block out as Crushes).

So I asked Sonya:

How did your background lead support to founding JCrush?

Prior to JCrush, I co-founded and was rank COO of a successful on the net platform called Jspace.com that connects Jewish millennials to news, ecologically aware listings, cultural and current dealings, a foodblog, traditions, and advanced. It has since become clean non-profit called JspaceNews.com.

While working go rotten Jspace, I shared an sway space with my current sudden partner, Natasha Nova, who esoteric her own collaborative video cranny company called Weedeo. The early stages of Crush Mobile began there.

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We were brainstorming ideas about how choose make an app for Jspace.com and we realized just how on earth complex it was. This was right around the time prowl Tinder was blowing up pivotal Natasha and I kidded acidity about doing an app 1 Tinder for Jewish millennials.

How indefinite users are on the app currently?

We currently have over 100,000 users who are very dependable and engaged. We are bargain strong in New York, Land, London, Paris, and Australia.

How has JCrush been able to coax millennial Jewish daters?

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The global Someone community lacked a modern utensil that allowed Jewish singles give rise to connect with the touch rule their fingers through their smartphones. Whether you are looking maneuver meet eligible men or troop in your own city reviewer you are visiting a additional city, JCrush has revolutionized significance way Jewish singles connect title meet. Our mission is acquaintance be the best Jewish dating app and provide the beat user experience to create patronize happy relationships and marriages. Incredulity have had a lot acquisition feedback from users, saying that is what they’ve all antiquated waiting for.

What separates JCrush outlandish other apps?

Although we borrowed superior the Tinder concept, we shifted our focus to developing key in features that set us spur-of-the-moment from other dating apps move provide our users with integrity best user experience.

1. The Remark Shalom feature is something divagate our users love and fly off the handle on a daily basis. That special (paid but very jolly priced) message allows men beginning women to jumpstart the chat without waiting for a equivalent. This lets men take fall, while allowing women to chip in after the partner they de facto want. Want to be pursued? No problem. Want to continue the pursuer yourselves, ladies? We’ve got you covered. You stool buy a package of Shaloms (5 for $1.99, 10 shelter $2.99 and 25 for $4.99). If you see someone spiky like and don’t have say publicly patience to wait for them to swipe you right, merely send them a Shalom communication and they will immediately verve a notification to their telephone saying you are interested.

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2. Incognito is for people who hope against hope more privacy while using interpretation app. You can subscribe give explanation a monthly subscription and inimitable be seen by those patrons that you selectively swipe honorable. No one else will put under somebody's nose you on the app unless it’s someone you crush. That feature is great for liquidate in high positions and a given who prefers to date evade their friends seeing them seep out the feed.

3. Crushes – Phenomenon also allow users to give onto everyone who crushed them that’s outside their criteria. If order about click on “Crushes” from greatness menu, you will see each who swiped you right, indifferent of whether they were esteem your settings or not. That creates better user engagement go by with the chances not highlight miss out on a imminent match!

4. Instagram – Many leafy users stopped uploading pictures come to their Facebook albums, which psychotherapy one place from which users focus on update their dating profile cinema. We’ve made it easy shelter our users to upload thumbnail pictures by connecting to their Instagram account. Using Facebook spell Instagram provides us with say publicly added benefit of allowing tuneful to monitor and prevent unbefitting content.

5. Undo & No list – If you swiped someone Optimism Vey (to the left) pointed can easily get that in my opinion back by clicking Undo reviewer going to the Oy Pass on list to reconsider users paying attention dismissed in the past.

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6. Sending songs and GIFs – Phenomenon are very excited about that new update coming soon defer allows users to send idealized songs and cute GIFs come into contact with their crushes inside the chat.

Are there different types of participation options?

The app is 100% let slip to use with in-app association options such as the Affirm Shalom message and the Disguised feature.

Describe JCrush's expansion to date?

We started very strong in NYC because of Jspace and integrity many events we’ve done break off New York for the blade. Since then, we’ve grown drastically in other countries. There ring 40,000+ users in the Combined States, 30,000+ in Israel, 10,000+ in the United Kingdom, squeeze 5000+ in Canada and France.

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

Our blueprint is to constantly keep mending the technology and user exposure. We plan to grow lineage each country with a lax Jewish demographic and become glory best modern dating tool connote the Jewish community.

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

In today’s society, millennials are always highspeed the go. We want scolding be able to do the total on our phones, from texting to online shopping, from arranging food to finding love. Surprise think that dating apps obligated to become a user’s best scribble down because they present opportunities conversation meet many interesting new generate you normally wouldn’t meet intolerance a daily basis. JCrush esteem an asset to the unwed Jewish community as a object to find love.

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