Rematch
Founder
Dating app algorithms are rigged. They are designed to make money off your insecurities. They are made for people who look like Tom Cruise, which isn’t the reality for average people. This is why I built Rematch, where you can take control of your dating life.
My experience with dating apps
I downloaded Tinder for the first time in 2016, and after much efforts, hue and cry, I was able to secure one match, just one match which led me to believe that I was not that good looking. Now, I am not saying that I am the best looking person on the planet, but I have a brain, a personality and I can talk to anybody on the planet without hesitation. So, I tried again in 2018, I studied the apps extensively, did a lot of A/B testing with my profiles and finally found the recipe that works.
But, the truth of the matter is that 90% of the people who don’t see success on these apps go into a spiral of purchasing premium plans and hoping for the best to happen while it never does. These apps are skewed and these people deserve to meet somebody they can love and receive love from.
Identifying a market gap
When I came up with the idea, I wanted to see what the competition was, so I started scouring the internet using keywords like dating apps for ugly people because that's what these ungodly apps do to regular people, make them question their own identity. I scoured google, reddit and realised there was nobody in this space and people were yearning for a solution, with just one player in the market which was a website dormant since 2 years with an organic traffic of 20k every month, and multiple reddit thread of people looking for a solution to this problem. So, I started building, and thinking how can we solve this problem?
Building for a cause
People deserve to be loved. Love fixes people, love gives them the power to go through the best and the worst times of their lives. Love should be accessible to everyone and not just a few gatekeepers who’ve got the resources to buy and unlimited amount. With this app, I aim to help every single person on this planet go on a date, without being stood up and being only and only judged for their personality. Utopian, but only till the time it works!
Quick MVP
The idea was simple, get a similar amount of people from the opposite genders onto the app to start it up and match people. I’ve created a waitlist that I will be taking live soon, once I have enough people in a certain geography (going to start with california).
Once I have a 1000 users, I will launch a very simple app that will facilitate conversations and video calls and allow people to set up their dates. I have high hopes and fingers crossed!