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Tawkify and the curious value of having fewer choices
A dating service built around a small act of surrender: let someone else choose. Tawkify sells the search, the screening, and the reservation - while the chemistry remains stubbornly freelance.
Three Day Rule's $6,300 Cure for Swipe Fatigue - and the Awkward AI Bet That Could Change It
For 15 years, Three Day Rule sold busy singles a human antidote to endless swiping. Now its new owner is trying to bottle that judgment in an app - without turning romance into a chatbot relay.
Marriage Pact
Marriage Pact is a research-driven matchmaking company, born as a 2017 Stanford economics class project, that runs an annual values-based questionnaire on college campuses. Instead of judging looks or swiping, students answer roughly 70 questions about their deepest values, and a stable-matching algorithm pairs each person with their single most compatible 'backup plan' on campus. Founded by Liam McGregor and Sophia Sterling-Angus, it has expanded from one campus to more than 100 schools and over 600,000 participants, and raised a $5M seed round in 2022 to keep building relationship technology.