Press kit
Everything journalists, researchers, and writers need to cover Date Cards: an overview, paste-ready boilerplate, brand assets, key facts, and direct contact. Built for working press on deadline.
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Date Cards is a Yaoundé-launched dating app where the first move is a real date. Built between 2025 and 2026, it proposes a single rule: no swipe feed, no first message. You see someone, you propose a venue and three time slots, they say yes or no.
Yaoundé is the launch city by design: dense enough to reach usable density at a few thousand users, bilingual French and English, and a natural starting point to expand toward Douala, Abidjan, Dakar. The app launches in 2026 with a privacy-conscious architecture and data hosted in the European Union under GDPR.
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Date Cards is a Cameroon-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 privacy comes first (data hosted in the EU under GDPR, user behavior stays private). The app launches in 2026 in Yaoundé, in French and English, and expands across French-speaking African cities in the months that follow.
Key facts
- Founded
- 2025
- HQ
- Belgium
- Launch market
- Yaoundé: Bastos, Ngoa-Ekelle, Nlongkak
- Launch date
- 2026
- Languages at launch
- French, English
- Team
- Independent studio
- Data residency
- European Union (GDPR)
- Press contact
- hello@getdatecards.com
- Website
- getdatecards.com
Brand assets
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App icon
Vector source plus raster sizes for app-store contexts.
App screenshots
Discover, Date Card composer, and confirmation screens.
Topics we can speak to
Three areas for interviews, panels, or written contributions. Each topic includes a quotable sample: use it as background or pull it directly.
The loneliness epidemic
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.
Launching a consumer app in Africa
Cameroon is underrated as a launch market for consumer tech. Yaoundé is dense enough that a few thousand users in a handful of neighborhoods create real network density, bilingual French and English by default, and a natural starting point to expand toward Douala, Abidjan, Dakar. Designing for mobile-first adoption, mobile money payments, and sometimes-slow connections was not a constraint, it was the product.
Product design as a public good
When most singles aged 25 to 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
- 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, consumer tech in Africa, privacy-conscious product design, or launching a consumer dating app.