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Ship It Live · dating sprint
Profiles, matching and chat, on the stores in 30 days.
A real matching product for a real niche — because the general market is taken and the specific ones are not.
Quick answer
A dating or matching app can be designed, built and submitted to both app stores in 30 days for a fixed $2,500, covering profiles, photo verification, discovery and matching, chat, reporting and blocking, and subscriptions. Both stores review dating apps strictly on safety, so those tools are built in, not bolted on.
The plan
Day one to day 30, written down.
You get this schedule before you commit, not after. If a phase slips, that is mine to absorb — the price and the date were agreed before anything started.
- 1
Days 1–3
Scope lock
Who this is for and what a good match means in that community. The matching rule is the product — swiping is just one implementation of it.
- 2
Days 4–12
Design
Profile creation and discovery first, since they decide whether anyone completes signup. Then chat and the safety flows.
- 3
Days 13–24
Build
Profiles, verification, matching, chat and moderation. Photo handling and abuse-prevention are built alongside, not afterwards.
- 4
Days 25–28
Seed and test
Real profiles from your community, real matching, real reports. A matching app with ten profiles behaves nothing like one with a thousand.
- 5
Days 29–30
Submit
Both store listings finished and submitted. Dating apps get scrutinised on safety and age verification, and I handle those review questions.
What $2,500 gets you
Everything needed to launch — nothing padding the invoice.
Who books this
Built for
Founders building for a community the big apps serve badly
Professional or interest-based networks where matching is the point
Anyone quoted six figures for what is, structurally, profiles and chat
Real situations
Five ways this shows up, and what actually fixes it.
Not hypothetical — the shape of the problem before someone books this sprint, and the specific part of the build that resolves it.
Situation 1
The general dating apps serve this community badly
A founder sees a specific community — professional, cultural, interest-based — that general dating apps treat as an afterthought, leaving genuine matching demand unmet.
A dedicated app with matching rules built for that specific community launches to both stores in 30 days.
Situation 2
Quoted six figures for what is structurally profiles and chat
A founder received a development quote in the six figures for a dating concept that is, at its structural core, profiles, a matching rule, and chat.
That same structure — profiles, discovery, matching, chat, safety tools — ships for a fixed $2,500, because the complexity was never really the build.
Situation 3
Ten profiles doesn't behave anything like a thousand
A founder assumes launching quietly and growing organically will work the same way a mature dating app does, without accounting for how thin early density feels to real users.
Days 25-28 specifically seed and test with real profiles from the target community before public launch, to see how it actually feels at low density.
Situation 4
Worried about rejection from Apple over safety features
A dating app founder has heard that Apple scrutinizes this category heavily and isn't sure what's actually required to pass review.
Age gating, reporting, blocking and moderation tools are built in from day one — the exact requirements both stores enforce most strictly on this category.
Situation 5
Assuming swiping is mandatory for any matching product
A founder defaults to a swipe interface because it's the most familiar pattern, without considering whether it actually suits their specific community.
Discovery and matching are designed around what suits the niche — curated daily matches or search-based discovery often outperform swiping for a specific community.
The honest part
When 30 days is the wrong answer.
A fixed deadline only works when the scope genuinely fits inside it. These are the cases where I will tell you so rather than take the booking.
Anonymous or adult-content platforms. Both stores restrict them heavily and the moderation burden is a business, not a feature.
AI matchmaking that claims to predict compatibility. You can have sensible ranking; you cannot have a science that does not exist.
Live video dating at scale, which is a real-time infrastructure project with its own budget.
Inside the 30 days
- Profile creation with photos, prompts and the fields your niche needs
- Photo verification, because unverified dating apps fill with fakes fast
- Discovery and matching on your own rules — not necessarily swiping
- Chat, unlocked on mutual interest, with typing and read states
- Reporting, blocking and unmatching, plus admin moderation tools
- Safety features both stores expect: consent flows, age gating
- Subscriptions or paid features through RevenueCat on both stores
- Both store submissions handled, source code yours, 30 days of support
Quoted as one number before day one. A week running long is mine to absorb.
Outside the line
- Anonymous or adult-content platforms. Both stores restrict them heavily and the moderation burden is a business, not a feature.
- AI matchmaking that claims to predict compatibility. You can have sensible ranking; you cannot have a science that does not exist.
- Live video dating at scale, which is a real-time infrastructure project with its own budget.
Real work, sized and priced separately. You hear it before you book, not at handover.
Questions
Before you book
Yes — structurally it is profiles, a matching rule, chat and safety tooling, all of which fit. The hard part is not the build, it is getting enough people in one place for matching to work at all.
Other sprints
30 days from now, this could be live.
A 30-minute call decides whether the scope fits. If it doesn't, I'll tell you what would.