Sydney Bradley

But basically how it works is if you're going to an event, you can signal in the app that there's someone you have a crush on.

And if they also in the app say that they have a crush on you, then Partyful will connect you over DMs in this very Tinder style way where it'll say it's a match and you'll get like a notification on your phone saying that someone has a crush on you.

Well, also there's the boop on Partyful that has been around for a minute now.

Yeah, it's a bit more cheeky and clean, but you can boop people as well.

So that was like maybe the first initial flirtation device on Partyful's app, but now...

You can make it very straightforward.

Say you have a crush.

No, because then you can DM in the Partyful app.

Yeah, I think a lot of why this is maybe

Partyful's trying to experiment with this is that Gen Z really wants to date in this sort of way that feels nostalgic.

We want to go to a party, meet someone the way like parents used to, or being at an event.

Like there's so many, there's a rise of all these dating events as well.

So I think Partyful's trying to streamline that in a way.

It does sanitize the process though of

Like, you're totally right.

Why don't we just go up to someone and say, hey, I have a crush on you in person.

But people are shy and awkward and this generation is so used to swiping and matching in an app that maybe it feels horribly more natural to be matched together on an app than it is to go get someone your number in real life.

There's a lot of fatigue, especially around the swiping apps.

The swiping apps, you

It's sort of this gamified version of dating where there's an endless bounty of people you could potentially be with.