Another dating app! Seriously? Have you lost it?
Yeah, pretty much every well meaning person in our lives said something to this tune when they learned we were creating Sunday; and they weren't wrong. There are so many reasons why creating a dating app is a terrible idea.
So we asked them this one question before they formed a judgement, and we ask you the same:
Q. How many people do they know who met through a dating app and got married later?
What did we find? Sometimes, some rare set of people had a second or third degree connection with some couple that met through a dating app, but most people didn't know anyone.
So like any sane scientifically inclined people, we attributed this to our small sample size, and looked online. But every rabbit-hole took us to the same conclusion - a lot of people are getting married every day, but most didn't find their partner through a dating app.
It was clear that something isn't working. After all, dating apps have been around for more than a decade now. Yet, people aren't meeting their partners through them. It's like saying Zomato is really popular but people are still ordering in via phone calls. Something's broken, and somebody needed to be the agent of change, so we took it upon ourselves to fix it!
Dating Apps: Episode IV - A New Hope
(For the uninitiated, this is a Star Wars reference)
And thus was born Sunday - a Relationship App that just operates with one mission - helping people find stable long-term partners
How Sunday works
Principles behind Sunday
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Privacy First: We really care about your privacy. You are discovered by who you want to be discovered by. Your photos are seen by who you want to see them.
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Verified Users: We understand what skewed gender ratios and the wrong kind of men do to the experience of women on dating apps. We keep both under control.
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Meaningful Relationships Only: The meaningless swipe-and-forget experiences are anathema to us. We will always actively discourage relationships that don’t compound.
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Verified Information only (WIP): This one is the hardest, but we aim to verify every single piece of information so that you can trust what you see blindly.
These principles form our north star which helps us make decisions when building the product that we believe will prove to be even better than finding a partner offline!
If you have made it this far, dear reader, know that whether we succeed on our mission is contingent on just one factor - how well Sunday solves the problem for you. Let us know the type of person you're looking for, and we'll try to find them for you. All you have to do now? Join the waitlist so we can let you know when we're all-set (which by the way would be in a few weeks)!