Julie: I was completing a clinical rotation and dating. In my bio on the apps, I would tell guys only to match if they had a single friend they could bring on a double date. Over 30 guys in the first week were telling us this was so much fun and a better way to date. They joked we should start an app.
Danielle: It was really bad timing for us, but it actually gave us the time that we needed to really flesh out what is the business, and what are the values of the business, because we hadn't done any of that before. We relaunched the app in January 2021.
Julie: We started getting the first few 1,000 sign-ups, but the timing was awful. We launched in 2019 and COVID-19 shortly followed.
Julie: I literally Googled "How to start a business." And from there, we Googled how to get an app started. We learned the term "MVP" [minimum viable product] we kept being like, "What does that even mean?" We started reading and learned about the concept of a dev shop, where you can outsource the work to a company who will build it for you. It took about nine months and we spent around $25,000 to have our MVP built.
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