Overview

• What are seekers and blindas? 

  • Seekers are the friends or family that are playing matchmaker for the single people in their lives, the blindas.  Seekers help to create/edit unique profiles for their blindas and browse through potential matches.

• How does Blind'a work? 

  • First, a blinda must approve someone to be their seeker and accept the profile made for them.  Then that seeker will search for potential matches for their blindas.  When a match is made, that seeker will talk to the seeker of the matched blinda.  During the conversation between the two seekers, one of them can request to connect their blindas.  If this request is approved by the other seeker, then the two blindas will be put in a chat together.

• How do you pronounce Blind’a? 

  • Blind’a is a contraction of Blind Date and is pronounced Blind Duh.

• What if I have a question not listed on FAQ? 

  • Contact us directly with any questions and we can add to our FAQ if something is repeated asked about.

• What is the difference between a match and connection?

  • When two seekers like each other’s blindas in the matching process, a match is made. The seekers can then see these matches and a connection is made when the two seekers decide to connect their blindas in a chat together.

• How is Blind’a different from other “matchmaking” dating apps?  

  • There are several apps that operate on the concept of friends setting up their friends.  Blind’a gives the “matchmaker” the most control with creating/editing dating profiles and directly talking to other seekers.  Our batch-match feature also allows people to look for all of their single friends at once.

• Where is Blind’a operating?

  • Blind’a is currently operating in Southern California, but anyone anywhere in the US can be a seeker for a blind’a located in Southern California.  We will keep everyone updated on our city-by-city expansion plans.

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Signing Up and Account Settings

• How do I get started with an account?

  • After signing up with a phone number, you will be asked to choose to be a seeker, a blind’a, or both. From there you will be asked to either create a seeker profile, a Blind’a Basics Profile, or simply provide a name and photo.

• Do I have to be someone’s seeker or blind’a to be on the app?

  • Yes and no. You can sign up to be a seeker or blind’a and not add anyone and just be on the app. However, until you add someone else as your seeker or blind’a, you won’t be able to search through profiles or talk to any connections.

• How do I add someone to be my seeker?

  • Use the “+” button at the bottom of either home screen.  Then select a seeker from your contacts or by phone number.  You can choose to make a Blind’a Basics Profile, share access to one you’ve already made, or invite them to be your seeker and create a profile for you from scratch. 

• How do I add someone to be my blind’a?

  • Use the “+” button at the bottom of either home screen.  If you want to use someone’s Blind’a Basics Profile, then either request access or for them to create one.  Otherwise, you can make a profile from scratch and the blind’a will have to approve this profile.

• What is my Blind’a Score?

  • The Blind’a Score basically shows how many seekers and blindas you have.  You get more points when you invite someone onto the app who wasn’t already a user.  Later on, we will expand this score to include other activity in the app and these points will be redeemable with affiliates.

• Can I sign up with Facebook or other services? 

  • No.  At this moment we are just using phone numbers for logging in, though this may change in the future to include for login options.

• How do I delete my account?

  • Go to settings, and delete account.  At the moment, we will not save your data so if you delete your account, you will have to start from scratch if you return.

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Friends

• Can I edit the profile my seeker has made me? 

  • No.  Your seeker controls what is shown on the profile they have made you.  However, you have to approve the profile they make before anyone else can see, and you will get notified if they make any changes to it.

• What if I don’t want to be someone’s seeker or blind’a anymore?

  • Hold you finger on the seeker or blind’a you want to remove and the option will pop up.

• What is a Blind’a Basics Profile?

  • This is a profile template that blindas fill out, complete with pictures, preferences, and attributes. Seekers can then use this to help build their unique profiles for their blindas, without having to start from scratch.  Seekers can change any information or pictures that they want, but any changes they make won’t affect the original Blind'a Basics Profile.  Blindas still have to approve final profiles before they are live.

• How many seekers and blindas can I have?

  • At the moment you can have an unlimited amount of seekers and blindas.

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Matching

• Why don’t I see anyone available? 

  • You either have not added anyone to be your blind’a, so you can’t see any potential profiles, or you ran out of profiles in the area.  We are still growing, so over time there should be more and more profiles to see.

• When will my area become available? 

  • We will keep everyone posted on expansion plans through a newsletter and eventually we will have a roadmap showing specific dates for specific regions.

• Can I be a seeker for someone if I am not in an operating area? 

  • Yes!  The operating area only applies to the single blindas.  This is because we want the highest concentrations possible when starting out.  But someone in New York can be a seeker for a friend living in Los Angeles.

• How does batch-match work? 

  • Batch-match is our proprietary system that allows seekers to search for all of their blindas at the same time!  Our algorithm initializes blindas as yes’s/no’s based on location, sex, and age preferences.  These can be manually changed and anyone highlighted when a “like” is clicked, will be sent through as one side of the potential match.

• What happens when a match is made? 

  • Once two seekers have made one or more matches between their blindas, they are put into a chat together.  Here they can go into the Blind’a Library and see the results of their matching, and can propose connections.

• What is the Blind’a Library?

  • This is a grid showing the results from the seekers’ matching.  Your blindas are on the left, and the other blindas in the same row on the right are the ones that both seekers had initially liked for each other.  However, you can select any two blindas to propose a connection for. If the other seeker approves the request, then the two blindas are put into a chat with each other.

• Can I search for specific blindas? 

  • No.  At the moment you have to use the batch-match feature.  Once our user base increases, we will offer more filters to search for specific people, places, etc.

• Can I search for myself? 

  • No.  Blind’a is all about friends and family setting up the singles in their lives.  Eventually, we may offer single blindas to look for themselves, but will still have to talk to someone’s seeker before being connected.

• Can I see someone’s blind’a profile again? 

  • Once you like/dislike someone’s profile, the only way you’ll see their profile again is if you either add a new blind’a or a match is made.  If there is a match, you can view their profile again from the Blind’a Library

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Messaging

• Do I talk to people I don’t know? 

  • Yes.  We think one of the fun parts of setting someone up is making the case for why they are great, and this is impossible, if you are restricted to only talking to your own network.  Seekers will talk to seekers they don’t know and single blindas will talk to their new connections made by their seekers.

• When do I talk to another blind’a? 

  • You will talk to another blind’a when one of your seekers has made a connection for you.

• Do blindas talk to other seekers? 

  • Seekers can talk to their own blindas and vise versa, but at the moment seekers will not talk to random blindas.  Of course it’s possible the user is both a seeker and a blind’a, but the chats themselves will be either seeker-seeker or blind’a-blind’a.

• When can I see my match’s profile? 

  • In the essence of blind dating, after one of your seekers has connected you in a chat with another blind’a, you each have to send a minimum of 5 messages before you can view each other’s profiles.