I built a dating app with no swiping. You meet over a real plan instead of a photo. Looking for honest feedback.
Full disclosure: I built this, solo. I'm a software engineer in Paris and this is my side project.
The idea came from my own frustration with dating apps: endless swiping on faces, dead-end chats, no one ever actually meeting. So I flipped it. On Hayia there's no swiping on people at all. One person posts a real plan, a coffee, a walk, a play, a museum, and anyone interested asks to come along. The person who posted chooses who joins, and then you actually meet.
A few decisions I'd like feedback on:
The activity comes first, the person is discovered through the plan. No profiles-first browsing.
No one can message you first. You always open the door.
No likes, no match scores, no popularity ranking. Success is a plan that happens in the real world, not time spent in the app.
It's live on Google Play (Android only for now, iOS is next). It's genuinely new, so I'm looking for people who'll tell me what's broken or confusing. Of course, I still don't have many users.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.hayia.mobile&pcampaignid=web_share
Happy to return feedback on your projects too. What would make you distrust an app like this?