Hotpot

A voice-first dating app

London, October

Hear people before you see them

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How it goes

  1. You speak first.

    Signing up is a conversation. It opens with one question: say hello, and a little about who you are.

  2. You listen.

    Browsing is other people's recorded answers. The photo comes last.

  3. A like is a recording.

    To like someone you record a voice note for them. No tap does it for you.

  4. A match is two.

    Two people, each having spoken to the other. Only then does chat open.

  5. Chat is voice.

    Hold to record, release to send.

Know a few people well.

Matches stop at six.

When six are full, the like control goes quiet. Unmatching someone opens a place.

Three things are looked at before they reach anyone

Things take their time here, because your safety is paramount for us.

Every photo is checked before anyone else sees it, and a person looks at the ones the check cannot clear.

Answers are spoken, and the ones set to everyone are checked before they reach anyone.

The first voice note anyone sends you is checked before it reaches you.

Everyone here is 18 or over. That is a legal floor, not a preference.

A like costs a recording, so nobody sends a hundred of them.

Block and report sit wherever a person is on screen. More on safety.

London, in October.

Leave your email and you will hear when Hotpot opens.

One letter when Hotpot opens, and nothing else. Every letter carries a link that takes you off the list.

Anywhere is fine. London is only where it opens first.