JigTalk
| This is the JigTalk logo. | |
| Developer(s) | JigTalk App Ltd |
|---|---|
| Initial release | April 2018 |
| Engine | |
| Operating system | Apple iOS (iOS 10.0 or later), Android |
| Type | Social Networking |
| Website | jigtalk |
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JigTalk is a gamified location-based dating application which covers each user’s face in a jigsaw puzzle. After two ‘JigTalkers’ anonymously swipe right to declare interest on each other’s puzzled photo, a mutually opted-in match is created, allowing both to begin exchanging messages to reveal each other’s face, piece by piece.[1]
History[edit]
Founded by long-term school friends Max Adamski[2][3] & Alex Durrant, the application officially launched in late April of 2018. After beta-testing in Leeds and Manchester[4][5], with 10,000 university students signing up in 2 months[6][7], development then began on the beta application in the Winter of 2016, eventually being launched in Northern England as the final test platform before launching nationally. Before it's beta had even launched, it was touted as the download of the week by Tech City UK[8], ranked as one of the top dating apps for men by the Telegraph [9], and upvoted above almost all existing dating platforms on Product Hunt within only 24 hours of profiling.
After reaching their test user target (a period which saw the brand become the first ever mobile app to co-create a TV series)[10], both iOS and Android versions were pulled from the App Store as key platform improvements began. Ranked as one of the 101 Rising Stars of Tech[11], over the course of 6 months, the pair, after opening an office in Manchester as a team of 7, had initiated an investment partnership with the UK’s leading mobile app developers Apadmi to programme the newly-designed application[12][13], graduated as the first ever British company through NASDAQ’s prestigious San Francisco based ‘Milestone Makers’ accelerator[14][15], and raised further funding to execute a full UK launch and to test within international markets.
Operation[edit]
Features[edit]
Connect with Facebook[edit]
Users are required to make a JigTalk account through their Facebook ID Token, which lends to the platform the user’s name, age, photo albums and gender, streamlining the signup process, and, alongside SMS verification, validating each user as genuine.
Facial recognition overlay[edit]
Recognizing the key facial points of the user’s uploaded display image[16], a bespoke perspective and size of puzzle is overlaid, until a user unveils it piece by piece.
Swipe[edit]
Users are presented with profile cards one by one, which showcase a puzzled photo, name, distance away from the viewer, occupation, and an optional biography of up to 500 characters. Swiping left rejects the profile, whilst swiping right anonymously declares interest.
Match[edit]
When two users anonymously opt in to ‘Get Jiggy’ with one another, a match is formed, allowing the pair to begin exchanging messages and consequently reveal each other’s face in full.
Unveil[edit]
Each new JigTalk begins with the full 16 piece puzzle visible over each user’s face. One of the 120 ‘icebreaker questions’ is presented at random, which both users must answer before entering into free-flowing conversation. One message set (whether that is one message or multiple) from one user unveils one piece, and so on, resulting in 8 mutually exchanged message sets unveiling the full 16 piece puzzle. At this point, up to three extra photos become visible to each side of the match.
JigTokens (in-app currency)[edit]
In April 2018, to coincide with the full UK launch, JigTalk announced their introduction of JigTokens, the in-app currency for purchasing optional premium features. The three features being; Peepers, allowing pieces to unveil on the discovery screen, Colour Schemes, allowing customization of the user’s jigsaw puzzle, and JigTicks, allowing users to surpass the daily allowance of 25 positive swipes on the discovery screen.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ Co, Jigtalk. "JigTalk - The Dating Game". JigTalk. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
- ↑ "First Dates viewers heartbroken and angry at story of man forced to live in shed as a child". Radio Times. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
- ↑ "First Dates viewers heartbroken over man who was forced to live in garden shed". Metro. 2018-06-01. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
- ↑ "Love at first type: meet the messaging-led dating app taking on Tinder". TechRadar. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
- ↑ "Experience Delayed Gratification With The New Slow Dating Apps". HuffPost UK. 2017-05-29. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
- ↑ Roue, Lucy (2017-08-21). "Blind dating app JigTalk receives investment from Apadmi Ventures". men. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
- ↑ "Picking up the pieces with dating app JigTalk". Retrieved 2018-04-12.
- ↑ "UK ranks second for tech exits in 2016, Airbnb responds to Trump's Muslim ban & more in the Week in Tech". UKTN (UK Tech News). 2017-02-03. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
- ↑ Blagburn, Francis (2017-05-18). "The best dating apps and sites for men in 2018". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
- ↑ Storey, Katie (2017-02-07). "The Jump star Josie Gibson lands NEW dating show". OK! Magazine. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
- ↑ "Introducing the 101 rising stars of UK tech scene". BusinessCloud.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
- ↑ Roue, Lucy (2017-08-21). "Blind dating app JigTalk receives investment from Apadmi Ventures". men. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
- ↑ "Apadmi Ventures invests in blind dating app JigTalk". BusinessCloud.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
- ↑ "Dating app JigTalk wins place on San Francisco accelerator". BusinessCloud.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
- ↑ "Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center celebrates 2-year anniversary as Guy Kawasaki rings the bell remotely". VentureBeat. 2017-10-12. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
- ↑ "JigTalk: This 'moral' dating app reveals your profile photo piece by piece | The Memo". The Memo. 2017-02-01. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
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