Date Cards

What we're 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 we got here

Date Cards started from a simple observation: asking someone out had become complicated. We spent hours swiping when a real invitation would have done the job. So we built the app we actually wanted to use.

Yaoundé is the launch city by design. Dense enough that a few thousand users in Bastos, Ngoa-Ekelle or Nlongkak make the network feel alive. Bilingual French and English, like Cameroon. And a natural starting point to expand next to Douala, Abidjan, Dakar.

Why this, specifically

We've been on both sides of the problem. Hours spent swiping when a simple invitation would have done it.

And the times you sit next to someone interesting in a café and walk out as a stranger. Both moments share a root: asking someone out had become a performance. We wanted it to feel like sending a card.

So we 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 us

• Email / press: hello@getdatecards.com
• For Date Cards specifically: Google Play · iOS waitlist

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