Resources for people building dating businesses.

A founder's playbook for launching a dating business in 2026, from niche thesis and the cold-start problem to native apps, payments, and the first 1,000 users.

How matchmaking differs from apps, why its economics are resilient, how to build, price, and run the service, and how it scales.

How to apply the intentional-dating thesis in a real product, from positioning and niche to product, monetization, community, and trust.

Why raising for dating is hard now, who still funds it, what investors test, how the process runs, and the alternatives worth considering.

Why dating is a high-dispute category, how disputes threaten your whole business, and the full playbook that keeps rates safely low.

Why the stores scrutinize dating apps, what Apple and Google each require, the common reasons they reject, and how to be ready before you submit.

Why trust is the product, the threats that destroy a marketplace, and how to build moderation as a continuous operating function.

Why you are buying a marketplace ratio rather than a user, the channels that work in 2026, the creative and budgeting that pay back, and how to measure it.

Why dating retention is structurally hard, the levers that actually move it, how plans and the algorithm affect it, and how to measure it honestly.

What makes a dating business sellable, how it gets valued, how the process really runs, and how to keep control of the price.

What the new age-assurance and platform-safety rules require, the methods compared, how to comply without hoarding data, and a practical roadmap.

The three ways to get a dating product, what each really costs, how to evaluate a white-label vendor, and the one factor that should decide it.

Subscription, freemium, and credits, what each does to your revenue and retention, and how to choose and tune the model that fits your dating product.

Why a new dating app feels empty, what liquidity you actually need, and the strategies that get a product to its first real matches.

The operator's path to launching a dating product, built around the problems that actually decide whether you have a business: liquidity, economics, and trust.

How to size LTV, CAC payback, and the lifetime of a paying user, with the numbers that actually move in dating.

Why liquidity, not user count, decides whether a dating app works, and why it is local and segmented.

The most damaging trust failure in dating, why it is a business and regulatory risk, and how platforms fight it.

The two numbers that decide whether a dating business can afford to grow, and the dating-specific traps in each.

The spending and behavior of single people, well beyond dating apps, and why it matters to operators.

How the a la carte or credits model works, why it resists churn, and where it fits.

The shift toward serious, values-led dating, why it is happening now, and what it means for the people building dating products.

The reason new dating apps feel empty, why it kills most of them, and what solving it really takes.

How operators launch a branded dating product without building the technology, and what separates a good platform from a risky one.

The business model behind dating apps, why a small share of users carries the revenue, and the main ways operators monetize.

Dating apps live on a small slice of paying users. Mixing up ARPU and ARPPU is the fastest way to overspend on growth.

A living view of disclosed funding rounds and deals in dating and the singles economy, and how to read what they signal.

Age-assurance and platform-safety rules affecting dating apps, by jurisdiction, kept current. General information, not legal advice.

The ranges operators use to pressure-test a dating model: churn, conversion, CAC payback, LTV to CAC, and dispute rate.

Market size, the shift from casual to intentional dating, and where the next wave of value is forming, for operators and investors.

A structured way to test pricing, paywall placement, and packaging without fooling yourself.

A practical checklist for keeping dating dispute rates safely below the level that threatens your merchant account.

The sections a dating platform's trust and safety policy should cover, as a starting structure.

A slide-by-slide outline for raising in a skeptical category, built around what investors actually test.

What to have in place before you submit a dating app for review, so you pass the first time.

A step-by-step checklist for launching a dating product, ordered the way an operator actually runs it.

What buyers, sellers, and investors should examine before a raise or a sale in dating.