Press kit

Everything journalists, researchers, and writers need to cover Date Cards: founder bio, paste-ready boilerplate, brand assets, key facts, and direct contact. Built for working press on deadline.

About the founder

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One-line bio

Solo founder of Date Cards. Brussels-based engineer who built a dating app where the first move is a real date.

Short bio

Kevin Wamba is the solo founder of Date Cards, a Brussels-launched dating app he built between 2025 and 2026. Engineering background, dating-app-tired user, and stubborn about making meeting someone feel like one decision again — taken once, kept simple.

Long bio

Kevin Wamba is the solo founder of Date Cards, a Brussels-launched dating app he built between 2025 and 2026. Engineering background, dating-app-tired user, and stubborn about making meeting someone feel like one decision again — taken once, kept simple.

Date Cards proposes a single 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. Brussels is the launch city by design: small enough to reach usable density at a few thousand users, trilingual, and a European hub from which a working cohort propagates to Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin. The app launches in 2026 with a GDPR-first architecture and EU-only data.

About Date Cards (paste-ready)

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One-liner (≤140 characters)

Date Cards is a Brussels-launched dating app where the first move is a real date — no swipe feed, no first message.

Short paragraph

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. Launched in Brussels in 2026, available across the European Union, in French, English, and Dutch.

Long paragraph

Date Cards is a Brussels-launched dating app that rebuilds courtship around the act of proposing a real date. Users send a Date Card — a venue and three time slots offered to someone they actually want to meet — and skip the swipe-and-message loop. The recipient picks a slot, declines, or counter-proposes. The app's job is to disappear once the date is set.

Date Cards is built around three principles: in-person meetings are the goal, specificity is the discipline (one card a day), and EU users come first (GDPR-first architecture, EU-only data, user behavior stays private). The app launches in 2026 in Brussels, with French, English, and Dutch support, and expands across European cities in the months that follow.

Key facts

Founded
2025
HQ
Brussels, Belgium
Launch market
Brussels — Sainte-Catherine, Châtelain, Saint-Boniface
Launch date
2026
Languages at launch
French, English, Dutch
Founder
Kevin Wamba
Team
1 (solo founder)
Data residency
European Union only
Press contact
hello@getdatecards.com
Website
getdatecards.com

Brand assets

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Logo

Wordmark and icon variants in PNG.

App icon

Vector source plus raster sizes for app-store contexts.

App screenshots

Discover, Date Card composer, and confirmation screens.

Store badges

Official App Store and Google Play badge SVGs.

Topics I can speak to

Three areas Kevin is available to discuss in interviews, panels, or written contributions. Each topic includes a quotable sample — use it as background or pull it directly.

The loneliness epidemic

European loneliness has worsened steadily since 2010. Dating apps grew alongside that curve. Many users describe leaving them lonelier than they arrived. The question worth asking is what these apps optimize for: matches (the metric that drives revenue) or first dates (the metric that actually changes someone's life). Date Cards picks the second — every product decision is measured against whether it shortens the distance between two people who'd like to meet.

The EU and Brussels tech scene

Brussels is underrated as a launch market for consumer tech. It's small enough that a few thousand users in three neighborhoods create real network density, trilingual by default, and a European hub from which a working cohort propagates to Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin. The EU regulatory environment — often framed as a burden — was a design opportunity for Date Cards: GDPR-first architecture, EU-only data, and the absence of behavioral profiling were not constraints, they were the product.

Product design as a public good

When most European singles aged 25–40 use dating apps and most report dissatisfaction, the design choices of those apps become public concerns. They shape millions of people's social lives, mental health, and ability to form relationships. Date Cards is built on the premise that a dating app's success metric should be in-person meetings — measured in lives changed — and that the distance between that metric and screen-time is the distance between a product that helps and a product that extracts.

Press contact

Email
hello@getdatecards.com
Suggested subject
[PRESS] [Your outlet] – [Topic]
Response time
Within 48 hours, weekdays
Interview formats
Video call, phone, written exchange
Languages
English, French

Open to embargoed previews, off-the-record background, and quoted comments for stories on the loneliness epidemic, European tech, GDPR-first product design, or solo-founder consumer mobile.