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EJ: Corina and Sarah, good morning to you. I’ll start with you, Sarah. Tell us the story behind Anyplans, the new dating app.
Sarah: So Corina and I met playing touch football a few years ago here on the Gold Coast, and I guess bonded pretty quickly just with our shared frustrations of trying to get a date on a dating app!
Why was it so hard for two single girls with our sh*t together to get a date? So we decided to do something about it and we built our own dating app.
EJ: Were you getting dates but just not liking who you were dating? Is that more to the point?
Sarah: Oh look, I think it was more the effort that you had to go to.
The time and hours you’d have to spend swiping and chatting and all the conversations that never went anywhere and you’d try your best to keep engaged and have interesting conversations and then people just fall off the face of the earth when you suggested meeting up or that sort of thing. It was just too much of an effort, really.
EJ: Yeah, and people, they want the hook up. They don’t necessarily want the date. And that’s what’s going on, I think, with Tinder. Um, Corina, so, based on what I’ve just said, is that why you went, okay, we need to take people away from this just being a hook up, a quick hook up, and we’ve got to get the people that actually want to meet up?
Corina: Yeah, well, the best dates we had was when we matched and the dates happened quickly. So the average user actually swipes 1140 times to get an actual date on a dating app.
EJ: That just sounds horrendous. That explains the arthritic thumbs.
Corina: Exactly. And I would very much like to enjoy the nimble use of my swiping thumb into my nineties!
So that is, that is a ridiculous stat, isn’t it? Like So, so continue on with, based on that idea, Corina, um, yeah, how to get onto Anyplans.
Corina: Yeah, for us, we were at a point where we just wanted to match with people who wanted to date. So meeting up with someone for coffee or walk on the beach for an hour to see if there was chemistry or an attraction was better than sitting there for hours, matching and chatting with people that led to nowhere.
So for Sarah and I, we would start swiping on a Monday to have some chats to conversation, to try and find a date on a Friday night. And in the end, it was Sarah and I that used to go out for dinner because of the amount of effort and time that went into it. We’re busy professionals. We just, you know, we’re on a dating app for dating. And it just didn’t seem to happen.
So that’s where Anyplans was born. So imagine if you’re free on a Friday night and there’s a trendy new restaurant nearby that you’ve been wanting to try. You post a plan on Anyplans with a date idea and time and people can check out your profile and see if they want to join and put their hand up and send a message.
EJ: So, it might be busy today being Valentine’s Day.
Exactly. Let’s hope so. Yeah.
EJ: Now, how do you, do you get to, obviously, just say the restaurant’s a really nice restaurant and it’s just about to open and there’s been a bit of hype for it. You put that up and then you get inundated like by, it might be just say, just say there’s 35 people that straight away go, yeah, I want to do it.
So how do you then decipher who goes first in best dressed or what’s your contingency plan? There might be a lot at once.
So it’s, you’re exactly right. It’s like having your very own bachelorette or bachelor moment with Anyplans. So yeah, you can. Users who would like to go with you, they apply and they say, I’m interested to come and you can then go through their responses.
So they send you a message at the same time. You can swipe through their profiles and you go, oh yeah, he looks all right. That sounds like fun. Let’s go with him. And then you can say, yeah, let’s go. So it’s the person that you’ve confirmed. So it’s not everyone turning up at the one space. You actually then go, you have expressed interest in coming to this particular restaurant with me at this time.
Five people applied for the position and I pick you.
Sarah: So one of the things about it is keeping the plan actually a little bit generic because you don’t want that situation where potentially 50 people rock up to the restaurant because they all know exactly where you’re going. So you keep the plan like “I want to go out for dinner and I’m feeling like Mexican on Friday night in Broadbeach” and keep it more kind of generic so the actual specific location is hidden until you’ve selected who you want to go with and then they’re shared the details.
Oh, awesome. All right, girls. Best of luck with it. All right. See you later. See you. Good luck.
Announcer: Once again, that app is called the Anyplans app and you can search for it right now on your app store.
