Launching today
PickleMatch
the dating app where your first date is pickleball
49 followers
the dating app where your first date is pickleball
49 followers
PickleMatch connects singles for pickleball dates. The app that helps you: • find people near you who also play • match based on skill level and where you play • turn that match into an actual game The first date is already planned, and it's pickleball. Time, place, and even doubles partners can be coordinated in the app. We launched in October on iOS and Android. Today we have 700+ active profiles, 1,500 people on the waitlist. People are already meeting every week.
PickleMatch
After getting out of a nearly decade-long relationship, I got on the apps and burned out fast. It was admin, forced small talk, and first dates that felt like interviews.
Then I found a simple workaround.
I had recently gotten into pickleball, so started only swiping on people who played. It gave me an easy opener. "Want to play sometime?"
It worked. I skipped the small talk and started going on actually enjoyable dates.
Most dating apps solve for the match, then dump you in a chat with a complete stranger. PickleMatch solves for meeting IRL. Your first date is sorted, and it's pickleball. It's social, fun, and affordable. You do not have to carry the conversation the whole time. The activity does that for you.
Since launching in October, the app has taken off. We have 700+ active users organising pickleball dates every weekend and have been featured on Yahoo News, Nightline, and we were even roasted on Jimmy Kimmel.
Correct me if I am wrong but the matching logic will be similar to other dating apps and instead of meeting at cafe we meet at Pickle ball? is this correct or we have a completely new logic for matching?
Value Sense
Gj Anneliese! Have a nice launch
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I think if more apps (dating ones) were including common sports activities, it would be pretty cool because:
at least one hobby you have in common
you are doing something good for your body/health
you can see the reaction of the other side when loses the match, so you can see the behaviour in his/her pure nature (I know some people who take defeat tragically. :D)
Also, love how you found parallel between sport and copywriting "Match"