There are different types of dating apps in the market, some of which target niche audiences.
Among these, the ones that focus on creating a secure environment in which the LGBT community can come together to build serious relationships needs special mention.
Compared to the dating apps for straight men and women, LGBT dating apps have some special features.
These features allow gay men to connect with other like-minded people without feeling threatened.
To give you a better perspective, we have done deep research and found four key features present in most of the leading LGBT dating apps in the market.
You should include these features in your gay dating app to ensure its greater chances of success in the market.
Here we go:
4 primary features that make a gay dating app successful
The four features that we have shared with you in this article go a long way in creating a secure platform for the LGBT community.
On this platform, they can openly meet people of similar sexual orientation without being judged.
1). Find your match nearby
One of the big problems that gay men face when they are trying to look for a partner is finding all the available matches nearby.
Your app should help the users to easily find and connect with others of similar sexual orientation who live nearby.
It should help the gay community to create a network through people’s discovery to find other gay men with whom they can establish a relationship.
It should include advanced filters using which the can find the right person that matches the expectation.
The search should include various categories under which the user can search for a date based on the region, language, relationship, body type, and others.
This will help them to find someone who matches their frequency perfectly so that they can establish a long-term relationship (or even a quick hookup).
2). Secure messaging
Finding the right person is just one part (a very important one at that!) of a dating app.
To establish a relationship, the user of the app should be able to interact with others with a secure end-to-end secure communication feature.
Your app should include a live chat option for the matched profiles.
The chat feature will allow the users to send and receive private messages to take their relationship forward.
You must make this communication between the users of your gay dating app secure from prying eyes.
To improve the security of the messages, you should give them an option to create an anonymous account on the chatting platform.
This will allow them to communicate freely with the person with whom they have been matched on your dating app.
To make it more exciting and ensure that the users find out instantly whenever they receive any message on the dating app, you can include a feature that would send them reminders through push notifications.
Furthermore, it has been observed that a large number of gay men use the dating app as a social media platform.
You should keep this fact about your target audience in mind when you are creating a dating app for gay men.
We suggest that you should include a group chat option as a part of your messaging feature that would allow people to find and establish new contacts through the app.
To give the users more options, you should put categories like chat, networking, relationship, dates, not specified, and others, so that the users can classify their contacts.
3). Maintain private photo album
While it is important to initiate a conversation to know another person through messaging, the visual aspect of attracting another person cannot be overemphasized.
To do this, the gay dating app should have an option to create a private photo album that they can share with the people they want.
This is a very important feature for the users of your app if they want to take their relationship forward.
Just like messaging, we cannot emphasize more on the need for stringent security features that should be put in place so that the users can safely store and share such a private photo album with the person(s) of their choice.
4). The feed
For a dating app, the “feed” feature is very important.
This feature allows the users to either stream or explores the latest activities of their matched profiles on social media platforms.
Furthermore, it also allows the user to explore new matches as well as look for any topics that interest them.
Conclusion
To make your gay dating app successful, you shouldn’t miss adding any of the key features discussed in this post.
Besides this, for building a gay dating app, you should focus on the attractive UI/UX of the app and the safety and security of the user data.
If you have a great idea about a dating app for gay men but aren’t experienced enough to develop an app based on that idea, reach a dating app development company.
They will brainstorm on your idea and build a modern gay dating app that would attract your target audience and help you achieve your business goals.
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