DALLAS — Earlier this year Abbey Hagan deleted her dating apps. The 28-year-old sales specialist had been on them — mostly Hinge — for years, ever since she was a new college grad living in San Francisco. She was still swiping in 2022, when she moved to Dallas for a new job and proceeded to go on dozens of first dates in her new city.

“I’ve had many horror stories, and many crazy experiences, and a few good ones,” Hagan says. “But I just felt, especially this past year, so fatigued by them, and kind of like they’re just a waste of my time.”

Then one morning in June, Hagan was on her usual walk on the Katy Trail, a known hotspot for attractive young Dallasites, when a thought struck: “What if there’s a way to combine something that we’re already doing with dating?”

Hagan settled on an id

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