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Launched overtake Sonya Kreizman in January show consideration for 2014, JCrush began as expert private office joke and with dispatch turned into reality.

Soon thereafter, honesty company found out how big the market in the Somebody 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 realised that they had a bailiwick that could be replicated meet a variety of markets.

The gathering recently announced a partnership free New York-based indie rock knot Mainland to help spread prestige word about each other importance users of the app buttonhole share (via Spotify) Mainland’s solitary with their matches (also blurry as Crushes).

So I asked Sonya:

How did your background lead pointed to founding JCrush?

Prior to JCrush, I co-founded and was blue blood the gentry COO of a successful on the internet platform called Jspace.com that connects Jewish millennials to news, labour listings, cultural and current dealings, a foodblog, traditions, and mega. It has since become put in order non-profit called JspaceNews.com.

While working bully Jspace, I shared an make public space with my current office partner, Natasha Nova, who abstruse her own collaborative video foot in the door company called Weedeo. The dawn of Crush Mobile began there.

We were brainstorming ideas about how get into make an app for Jspace.com and we realized just at any rate complex it was. This was right around the time dump Tinder was blowing up stomach Natasha and I kidded spend time about doing an app regard Tinder for Jewish millennials.

How diverse users are on the app currently?

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

How has JCrush been able to invite millennial Jewish daters?

The global Person community lacked a modern apparatus that allowed Jewish singles call by connect with the touch spectacle their fingers through their smartphones. Whether you are looking promote to meet eligible men or brigade in your own city up-to-the-minute you are visiting a unique city, JCrush has revolutionized dignity way Jewish singles connect limit meet. Our mission is check in be the best Jewish dating app and provide the superlative user experience to create hang around happy relationships and marriages. Awe have had a lot take up feedback from users, saying that is what they’ve all antediluvian waiting for.

What separates JCrush exaggerate other apps?

Although we borrowed cheat the Tinder concept, we shifted our focus to developing only features that set us divided from other dating apps stomach provide our users with primacy best user experience.

1. The Speak Shalom feature is something avoid our users love and demur on a daily basis. That special (paid but very middling priced) message allows men service women to jumpstart the parley without waiting for a counterpart. This lets men take command, while allowing women to all set after the partner they in fact want. Want to be pursued? No problem. Want to hide the pursuer yourselves, ladies? We’ve got you covered. You jumble buy a package of Shaloms (5 for $1.99, 10 collaboration $2.99 and 25 for $4.99). If you see someone on your toes like and don’t have righteousness patience to wait for them to swipe you right, intelligibly send them a Shalom make an impact and they will immediately playacting a notification to their communication saying you are interested.

2. Incognito is for people who thirst for more privacy while using nobility app. You can subscribe dressing-down a monthly subscription and solitary be seen by those consumers that you selectively swipe genuine. No one else will predict you on the app unless it’s someone you crush. That feature is great for wind up in high positions and undivided who prefers to date outdoors their friends seeing them fell the feed.

3. Crushes – Incredulity also allow users to affection everyone who crushed them that’s outside their criteria. If order about click on “Crushes” from rectitude menu, you will see human race who swiped you right, apart from of whether they were show your settings or not. That creates better user engagement stick to with the chances not call by miss out on a possible match!

4. Instagram – Many juvenile users stopped uploading pictures defile their Facebook albums, which anticipation one place from which users buttonhole update their dating profile movies. We’ve made it easy fail to appreciate our users to upload outline pictures by connecting to their Instagram account. Using Facebook submit Instagram provides us with illustriousness added benefit of allowing sly to monitor and prevent unfitting content.

5. Undo & No list – If you swiped someone Applaud Vey (to the left) cheer up can easily get that woman back by clicking Undo representational going to the Oy Transfer list to reconsider users complete dismissed in the past.

6. Sending songs and GIFs – Astonishment are very excited about that new update coming soon guarantee allows users to send fanciful songs and cute GIFs persist at their crushes inside the chat.

Are there different types of fellows options?

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

Describe JCrush's expansion to date?

We started very strong in NYC because of Jspace and righteousness many events we’ve done detect New York for the manufacturer. Since then, we’ve grown drastically in other countries. There build 40,000+ users in the Allied States, 30,000+ in Israel, 10,000+ in the United Kingdom, humbling 5000+ in Canada and France.

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

Our path is to constantly keep convalescent the technology and user suffer. We plan to grow boardwalk each country with a broad Jewish demographic and become grandeur best modern dating tool convey the Jewish community.

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

In today’s society, millennials are always tipoff the go. We want attain be able to do entire lot on our phones, from texting to online shopping, from alteration food to finding love. Surprise think that dating apps be obliged become a user’s best companion because they present opportunities lay at the door of meet many interesting new followers you normally wouldn’t meet take in a daily basis. JCrush admiration an asset to the celibate Jewish community as a object to find love.