Built so you’ll talk to someone

Five is enough that someone in it is probably worth writing to, and few enough that you can give each of them a proper look.

Every introduction is mutual, so the people in your five are looking at you too. Nobody is one card in a pile, and nobody is shown to a thousand strangers at once.

Likes turn dating into a scoreboard: who liked you, how many, whether they’ll like you back. Arch skips to the part that matters.

If you want to talk to someone, you tell them so, in words. They decide whether to answer. That’s the whole mechanism, and it’s the same for everybody.

Sixteen questions decide who you meet, and none of them appear on your profile.

People answer more honestly when nobody is marking them, and honest answers make better introductions. So the questions shape who arrives in your five, and that’s all they ever do.

An arch is one of the oldest ideas in building: stones that couldn’t stand on their own, holding each other up.

Our mark is a bridge, a deck carried on an arch. And the five stones over your Daily 5 are the people in it. They’re all the same size, on purpose. None of them is the keystone.

• Sell your data, or share it for advertising.
• Show anyone your answers, your location or your date of birth.
• Tell anyone that you dismissed, blocked or reported them.
• Charge you to see who likes you. Nobody can like you.
• Show you an endless stack of people to keep you scrolling.

Arch is a small, independent team in Canada. It’s operated by Alwin Ning, in Ottawa.

We’re in beta, building Arch alongside the people using it. If something feels wrong or missing, we want to hear about it, and a person reads every message.