Sign in with a phone number, no password. Browse people near you with a match score that says why. Say yes, and if they said yes too, it is a match and you can talk. Behind it, an owner dashboard where the name and the colors of the whole app change from a form.
Open it on your phone. The sign in screen, the privacy page and the account deletion page are all there, the way the app stores want them before they will list a dating app.
Open HAVE WE MET? →Edward applied on a Wednesday night at 9:28pm. Thursday at 11 we were on the phone, and the offer went out at 11:07. Saturday afternoon it was paid.
A dating app has a lot of moving parts that have to work before anyone will trust it: a login that does not need a password, profiles with photos, a way to say yes or no, a match only when both said yes, messaging that keeps phone numbers private, block and report, and somebody in charge who can suspend a member. All of that was built and ready to look at by Monday at 9:01am, with 14 sample members in it so there was something to browse.
The one thing it did not have was a name. Edward sent it that afternoon: HAVE WE MET?, for people of all ages, red, green and blue. Twenty minutes later the app said so across the top.
Enter a number, get a code by text, you are in. Under 18 cannot join. The same number is the login on every device, and there is no password to reset.
Every card carries a match percentage and the reasons behind it: shared interests, the same answer on what you are here for, the same state. Say no and that person does not come back.
A match happens only when both people said yes, and the app tells you the moment it does. Messages live inside the app, unread counts on the tab, block and report one tap away.
Members, complete profiles, matches, messages, open reports, new this week. Suspend a member. Change the name, the tagline and all three colors from a form and the whole app follows.
Two weeks in, Edward asked what it takes to get on Google and Apple, and said this was a new space. The honest answer: the app already ran on every phone through the browser, and the stores check a few things before they will take a dating app. Two of those were missing, so they were built that afternoon. Anyone can delete their whole account from inside the app, photos and messages included, and there is a delete page on the web for people who already removed the app from their phone. A privacy page in plain words. A home screen icon so the app opens with no address bar. Then a walkthrough page for opening the developer accounts in the owner's own name, because the listing has to belong to the owner, not to us.