GZV #45: Snapchat Should Build A Dating App
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This one is interesting, let me introduce you to Cher.
Website:
Problem:
I don’t exactly know if there is much of a problem as much as there is an opportunity. People rarely buy houses together, but maybe this is a promising future.
Solution:
Cher is a platform that easily allows you to buy a house with your friends or family.
But Why Share?
“Sharing can make homeownership affordable as the mortgage will be shared. You can save up monthly rent, increase buying power and credit score, and build up your home investment equity.”
Gen Z View:
This is interesting for sure, and with Gen Z it could become more of a possibility.
I don’t know about other kids, but my friends and I have talked multiple times about pooling together and getting a vacation house together later in life.
Cher won’t exactly benefit immediately, but I believe we are seeing a shift in the way we live and work since Covid.
More jobs are becoming remote, and some people are getting long term rentals for there jobs. Ex. renting a place in Miami over the winter to work from.
This is a crazy concept, but sometimes we know these crazy concepts actually work. (Airbnb.
Fundraising?
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Why Doesn’t Snapchat Have a Dating Feature?
I know it is more like Facebook to copy other apps, but I think that Snapchat really has room to built a juggernaut of a dating app.
Here is how I look at it from the Gen Z perspective. I have a considerable amount of friends who actively use tinder. Most of the time the conversation in Tinder ends with one sentence, “Can I get your snap?”. So why would’t the platform these relationships are moving onto just create a dating app for themselves?
Snapchat itself is a very easy introductory platform when talking to new people. It is easy to just send a picture of yourself instead of talking. Remember when people’s first dates were movies because you didn’t have to talk? Same type of thing but now Gen Z style.
As the conversations go on, usually someone starts talking, but for Gen Z, talking immediately isn’t exactly our favorite thing to do.
We never ask for numbers anymore when we talk to people. It is always Snapchat. We love to not have to engage in the beginning stages of a relationship conversation, so we just send a picture of our face instead.
Snapchat has a great product team and millions of Gen Z’ers are already actively using it’s platform. I believe they can make some big waves if they give a dating side of the app of a try.
That’s all for today. Cheers to my buddies for helping curate this idea one late friday night.
Tom