Welcome back everyone to Between Bells on cheddar news,
trying to meet someone online has become a predictable
routine from swiping left or right on someone's profile,
then meeting up for outings that aren't necessarily what you'd hope they'd be
one app.
Now switching up the whole room team there now allowing users to
swipe right on plans and outings rather than on someone's face.
So joining me now, are the co founders of pitch, social Daniel,
Antonio and Riding Snowden, gentlemen.
Such a pleasure to have you guys here, Daniel, let's start with you.
Break down the app for us. How does this work here?
Um Well, number one, really great to be here. Thanks for having us.
Um Our app is,
is very straightforward um instead of swiping on faces were swiping
on events and activities that you can place on the applications.
So let's say you wanted to go dog walking or hiking
or anything like that, you can make the plan, place it on the application,
other people can say I'm interested,
they might be able to like it and send a message also.
Um and then you get to choose who you want to go with at that point.
Um
uh
in addition, within the communities,
within the interest that you're that you're interested in,
your also gain interest into these communities that you become a
part of on our application um and within those communities,
in your local area,
um you can find someone whose profile matches
yours and actually shoot your shot at them.
So it turns it into a game of shoot your shot um D. M.
S with purpose and event based VMS interesting.
Okay, so Ryan, I want to bring you into this conversation also,
what was sort of the idea about how this all came to be and and
why sort of community outings here is there may be evidence or research to suggest
maybe we're gonna date somebody or find some commonality with somebody
who has similar interests rather than what they look like.
Yeah, thanks baker.
So we're seeing that a lot of conversations on existing,
mainstream dating platforms don't need to anything
fulfilling you spend all day swiping,
but you don't actually end up making plans.
So we think that switching the model completely and starting with the idea
of the event will help people get back out there are taglines,
make real plans and we were as three co founders,
very interested in calendar oriented planning from
the start,
that's how we managed our working lives as new Yorkers and we realized
that it was difficult to make friends as an adult as well,
so not just changing the way that people use dating apps.
We also realized that the markets bigger for people that
want more friends that are interested in joining a community
and making plans with other people that share those mutual hobbies.
I think that's also interesting, Daniel,
what Ryan was just saying is you're almost like meeting
friends that have similar hobbies here so many ways.
Is this a dating app or is this
just meeting new people here because we've been spending
the last two years at home here and
we've been talking really two computer screens here.
So
that's a great, that's a great question.
Um so really we're an app for making real plans.
When we, when we started building this app,
we we were hit with the pandemic and we spent two years building this um, in, in
not being able to even meet up. Um, so
when we look at that, when we look at that, we discovered that
other people are feeling this way too.
And we're facing a real crisis called the friendship crisis.
And uh we've also noticed that research and studies show that as adults get older,
uh they have fewer and fewer close friends
and we wanted to build something that alleviates that.
So this is really an application in which you can make friends, you can also date.
But at its core,
it's all about making real plans and getting back
out there and moving forward with our lives.
So Ryan,
let's talk about the security and the verification of
this app because no doubt the Tinder swindler is taking
up everybody's attention right now in terms of security
on these dating apps and and he's connecting apps.
So how do you sort of make sure that
privacy and security is still an important thing here.
Yes.
So we verify that people on the app, our real,
we require that all texts are encrypted.
We don't sell your information and we don't encourage anyone
to send money to a stranger on the internet,
like what happened with the Tinder swindler?
I don't think that will happen anytime soon on pitch.
You should definitely tell your friends when you're going to meet others and
be excited about those plans that you are making on our application,
we have industry standard safety features and reporting tools,
so we're launching out of the box with all of this
because we do realize it's important for people to feel safe.
So um, Daniel, what sort of tips maybe do you have for users,
maybe to get the most out of an app like this because look,
some people hire for dating apps, coaches to help them with their dating profiles.
Is there something that allows somebody to really get the most out of this app here?
Well, I think,
I think my personal advice for anyone looking to be
successful on our platform is to put yourself out there,
engage with the community, um say what you want to do and put it out there.
Um, also uh, shoot your shot at other other members, um obviously, you know,
having a filled out profile will aid in that and uh, will aid in your, your,
your success on the application, but ultimately,
um our app is about shooting your shot and empowering our users
and the more shots you make,
the more shots you take, the more shots you make, right, you what?
What is it you don't, you only miss the ones you don't take.
You know, the shots that you don't take. So clearly.
Something around there.
Daniel, Antonio Ryan Snowden co founders have pitched social gentlemen,
such a pleasure to talk to you guys, congratulations on all your success.