KW

Kevin Wamba

Founder of Date Cards. I built it in Brussels because I wanted my friends — and myself — to actually go on dates again.

What I'm building

Date Cards is a dating app with one rule: your first move is a real date. No swipe feed. No first message. You see someone, you propose a venue and three time slots, they say yes or no. Once the date is set, the app gets out of your way.

How I got here

I built Date Cards alone, in Brussels, between 2025 and 2026. Engineering background. The kind of user who deleted three dating apps and decided to build the one I'd actually use.

Brussels is the launch city by design. Small enough that a few thousand users in Sainte-Catherine, Châtelain or Saint-Boniface make the network feel alive. Trilingual, so the app had to ship in three languages from day one. And a European hub — what works here travels to Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin.

Why this, specifically

I've been on both sides of the problem. I've spent hours swiping when I should have just asked.

I've also sat next to someone interesting in a café and walked out as a stranger. Both moments share a root: asking someone out had become a performance. I wanted it to feel like sending a card.

So I built a way to ask that takes three taps — pick a venue, pick three time slots, send. And a way to receive that's just as quick: yes, no, or "different time?" That's the whole product.

Three taps. Three time slots. One real date.

Where to reach me

If you're a journalist writing about the loneliness epidemic, the EU/Brussels tech scene, or how product design can be a public good, this is the right address. Happy to go deeper on any of these. Interviews in English and French.