About Ember

Built for the room, not the feed.

Ember turns the room you're already in into the night's best introduction.

Get Ember Why we built it

Meet where you already are.

One venueOne nightPrivate waves

The opposite of endless swiping

A real night out already has the people. Ember makes the first hello easier.

Dating apps ask you to swipe through strangers who are miles away and weeks from ever meeting you. Ember does the opposite. Walk into a participating venue, join the room for the night, and see who else is actually there. Wave at someone, and if they wave back, you match, right there, in the same building.

Rooms last one night and one venue. There are no endless feeds, no distance sliders, no waiting three days for a reply. The people you see are the people you could walk up to, and a matched pair even gets a match reward to break the ice.

Ember is a PubCrush™ app, built with venues, for the kind of night out where the best thing that happens wasn't on your phone at all.

Warm lights above a pub bar before the night begins

Why we built it

Interest should feel private. Meeting should feel natural.

Every pub already has the thing dating apps are trying to simulate: a room full of people who chose to be out tonight. What it does not have is a way to say hello without walking across the floor and putting the whole evening on the line. So most nights nothing happens, not because nobody was interested, but because nobody wanted to be the one who found out.

Ember is the small nudge in between. It lets you say you are curious without anyone learning about it unless they are curious back. Nothing is broadcast, nothing is public, and a wave that is not returned is never seen by anyone. The worst thing that can happen is the night you were already having.

From the door to the bar

How a night works

Four small steps. The phone handles the uncertainty, then gets out of the way.

01
Find tonight's room
Scan the code on the door or the table, or open the nights list to see which venues are open near you. One tap and you are in.
02
Show that you're there
Ember checks you are actually at the venue before it shows you anybody. No joining from the sofa, no profiles from three towns away.
03
Wave at someone
Waves are private. If they wave back, you both find out in the same moment. If they don't, nobody ever knows you waved.
04
Claim your reward
Every match comes with a single-use code you show at the bar together. It gives you a reason to stand up, and something to talk about while you wait.

A few non-negotiables

What we believe

Being in the same room is the best filter there is. No distance sliders, no algorithm guessing who you would get on with.
A night should end. Rooms close when the venue does, and what happened inside them goes with the night.
Turning someone down should be invisible. A wave that is not returned stays between you and your phone.
The point is to put the phone down. Ember has done its job the moment you stop looking at it.

Closing time is a feature

By morning, it's gone

When the venue closes, the room closes with it, and within a day everything that happened inside is deleted: who was there, who waved, who matched, and every message between them. All that is left is a count of how busy the night was, with no names attached to it.

Your account and profile stay, so you are not setting them up again next weekend. Everything else is built to be temporary, because a good night out already is.

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