I built an app that audits your dating matches for red flags before you get hurt 🚩
Hey everyone! First time posting here, so go easy on me 🙂
I'm a solo dev, and I just shipped Dating Counselor, an iOS app that acts like a brutally honest friend for your dating life.
The idea: we all ignore red flags in the moment and only see them clearly weeks later. So the app walks you through a short "audit" of a match, before or after a date, and gives you a Red Flag Score (0–100), a breakdown of what's concerning, and a straight-talking counselor's analysis. It even has a Ghost Meter that estimates how likely someone is to ghost you based on how the date actually went.
A few things I care about:
Privacy first! It never stores or shows the person's real name. Everything stays on your device.
It works in 6 languages (EN/PT/ES/FR/DE/ZH).
Free to try (your first match is on me); a one-time unlock opens the rest. NO subscription.
The most painful part wasn't the code, it was the release. Getting through App Store Connect for the first time took me over a week, with several rounds of back-and-forth emails. Half the replies were automated or copy-pasted and almost impossible to decipher, you're left guessing what they actually want changed. If you're a first-timer dreading that process, you're not alone, and it does eventually go through.
Honestly, the best part has been the small wins: first download, first sale ($4, and I genuinely celebrated), first stranger who said, "this is way too accurate." 😅
Would love feedback from this community, especially on the concept and what would make you actually trust a tool like this. Roast the red flags, roast mine, all welcome.
📲 App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dating-counselor/id6792997514
📸 Instagram: @datingcounselorapp
Happy to answer anything about building it solo.
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