Connect with us

Hi, what are you looking for?

Jewish Business News

StartUps

New Dating app lets you talk anonymously with matches

The new dating app, Datling, offers “the unique experience of real-time VOIP conversation with potential partners, which doesn’t exist elsewhere.”

Dateling cofounders L-R Matan-Cohen , Gal_Abramovitz

You know how the popular Tinder dating app works: It alerts you to other Tinder users of a specified age range, gender and geographic distance of your location. If you don’t like the look of a person, swipe him/her off your list. If you’re both interested, Tinder’s messaging function offers you a private chat thread in which to talk.

Two Israeli guys tweaked the Tinder concept and came up with Dateling

The main difference is that instead of texting in a secure space, Dateling matches can talk securely using Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol (VOIP).

Please help us out :
Will you offer us a hand? Every gift, regardless of size, fuels our future.
Your critical contribution enables us to maintain our independence from shareholders or wealthy owners, allowing us to keep up reporting without bias. It means we can continue to make Jewish Business News available to everyone.
You can support us for as little as $1 via PayPal at office@jewishbusinessnews.com.
Thank you.

“In other dating apps, when people have a lot of matches they don’t approach the less attractive matches first and that’s not fair,” says Gal Abramovitz, cofounder of Dateling with Matan Cohen. The first minute of the call is anonymous. If the couple continues talking longer, their photos are revealed to each other. Users can talk for five minutes free a day; if they want to talk longer they will pay a fee — unless they feel secure enough to hang up and exchange actual phone numbers.

Abramovitz is a graduate of the elite Unit 8200 intelligence corps and now is studying computers and linguistics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Cohen is a programmer living in Tel Aviv. “I am very interested in voice communication,” says Abramovitz.“We offer the unique experience of real-time VOIP conversation with potential partners, which doesn’t exist elsewhere. By allowing this intuitive medium of communication we hope to change the world of connecting people,” Abramovitz says.

The bootstrapped venture is available only in Israel for now but the founders are hoping to get investments that would enable a launch in a US city in a couple of months.They teamed up with a designer friend, Barak Avidan, to get a beta version of Dateling ready for a month of testing among 100 users. Then they launched in the App Store and Google Play in late June. Within a couple of days they had 300 users and by the end of July it was 700 and counting.

Meanwhile, a similar dating app, AppDate, is doing a pilot in Israel for its Tinder-like service that enables users to add a nine-second selfie video to their profiles.

Newsletter



Advertisement

You May Also Like

World News

In the 15th Nov 2015 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:   ·         A new Israeli treatment brings hope to relapsed leukemia...

Entertainment

The Movie The Professional is what made Natalie Portman a Lolita.

Travel

After two decades without a rating system in Israel, at the end of 2012 an international tender for hotel rating was published.  Invited to place bids...

VC, Investments

You may not become a millionaire, but there is a lot to learn from George Soros.