Marcel Winatschek

Dattch

Robyn Exton made an app for women who want to date women. Dattch. British, swipe-based like Tinder, but designed specifically for lesbians and bisexual women instead of being an afterthought on someone else’s platform.

The weird part is how overdue this is. Tinder was built by straight people, Grindr proved you could build something designed specifically for one community and have it work, but women looking for women just got knockoffs and failures. Apps clearly made by people who didn’t understand what they were doing. Scraps from other people’s platforms, mostly.

I don’t know if Dattch will last or if anyone in Berlin is using it. But the fact that it exists, designed from the beginning for what women actually want, says something about how much was missing before.