№ 01 · dating-season
Live
Season
Cohort dating. Thirty strangers, six weeks, no browsing.
30 strangers join a six-week season together. Daily prompts, weekly group activities, pair off through real interaction or don't. The pool closes at season start. Alumni recruit the next season — "I met X in S4." Week 4 is the week your roommate notices.
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Want it for a smaller group — 15 people, three weeks, a different cadence? Fork it and change the cohort size, the duration, and what happens in week four.
№ 02 · vouched-dating
Live
Vouched
Sponsored entry. You can't sign up — someone has to nominate you.
An existing user stakes their reputation on you; bad behavior costs them visibility too. Every match shows "introduced by [name], who has vouched for 7 others, all still active." The pool is the trust graph of all sponsors. Trust-network expansion is the recruitment mechanism.
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Running it as a closed community for a specific friend circle rather than open nominations? Fork it and seed the initial vouchers yourself.
№ 03 · date-slot-board
Live
Slot
Post the date, not the person.
"Ramen Tuesday 9pm Mission, I'll be wearing red." People claim the slot, not the profile. After the date, both decide if there's a second. Unclaimed slots disappear at the time they were scheduled — the listing dies if no one shows. The slot itself is shareable beyond the app.
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Want it for a specific neighborhood or activity type — coffee only, gallery openings, outdoor stuff? Fork it and narrow what kinds of slots people can post.
№ 04 · slow-dating-letters
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Letters
Async deep correspondence. One reply per day.
Write to one person at a time, long-form, over two weeks. No photos until you both agree to meet. The app rate-limits to one reply per day. The day-7 prompt is "what would surprise me about you." People share their best letters as essays — the writing itself recruits.
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Want the rate limit at once a week for a slower, longer arc — or the day-7 prompt changed to something specific to your community? Fork it and adjust the pacing and the prompts.
№ 05 · group-dating-mixer
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Foursome
Group-date primary. No 1:1 until the four-person mixer.
1:1 dates are structurally forbidden until you've been on a four-person hangout together — you, your match, and one trusted friend each. First contact is always a curated mixer of two pairs. Friends are required to participate, so they become the recruitment vector.
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Want to adapt it for polycule coordination or a chosen-family social structure where the group dynamic is the whole point? Fork it and describe your group's specific rules.
// read me
Each of these breaks one structural assumption built into every dating app shipped this decade.
The open pool, the self-listing, the 1:1 default, the photo-first ritual, the anonymous signup.
None of them are pretending to be the next category-killer.
They’re shapes to remix — fork Letters and change the rate-limit, fork Foursome for polycule coordination, fork Season for your friend group.
Start with the one that bothers you most about how things usually work.
These five were built around five specific structural breaks. Your situation probably has a sixth one nobody’s named yet. Clone whichever is closest and describe the rule you want to change.