Are dating apps dead?

This really made me think and is what triggered me to come up with the concept of Not a Date. I have a lot of single friends, I suppose I am at that age where second (or even third) time around is the norm either by divorce or tragically widowed, and so the topic of dating is discussed as regularly as menopause in my circles!

Seeing most of my single friends (male and female) go from some hope to no hope, telling me stories that range from us falling about with laughter to genuine recoil about their experiences with dating apps, online sites, no-shows, ghosting and complete incompatibility with physical dates is painful, to say the least. This made me want to help.

I feel that the dating scene is crying out for something different. Reading report after report about online safety - or the lack of it and listening to the fact that even millennials and Gen Z want to go back to old-fashioned and more traditional ways of ACTUALLY meeting people in a face-to-face way made me question and look what solutions are out there - and it's not pretty.