First campuses go live this fall

Be the place the first date happens.

Sarx is a campus-only app, and it decides where a matched couple goes. Every student is verified with a campus email before they can see anyone, the night happens in a public room with staff in it, and your table is held. It opens one campus at a time.

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A note from the founder

The first dinners are on me.

I'm putting my own money where my mouth is. For the couples Sarx matches first, I pay up to $200 of the first date night bill, for whatever they order from your menu. The couple arrives having already decided to come; you serve your normal margin.

That is what "tonight, on us" means on the match screen. Sarx launches small: one matched couple, one dinner, one campus at a time.

Run a place a first date should happen in? Say hello — it comes straight to me.

Settings. Everything on it is invented for the demo.

The app, screen by screen

  1. Launch The half second before anything loads.
  2. Verify The gate. Nothing else in the app is reachable until this passes.
  3. Discover The main surface: people and events on one screen.
  4. Match It's a match. The night, and who is paying for it.
  5. Messages The thread opens first, carrying what Sarx proposes.
  6. Shortlist Seven vetted spots, one card at a time. Swipe it.
  7. Both of them Two answers, held until they have both chosen.
  8. The bill The end of the meal, and how the venue gets paid.
  9. Settings The third tab: account, notifications, safety.

What we would not compromise on

  • The campus email is the gate. Nothing is visible to anyone until it is verified, and it is the one thing that cannot be skipped.
  • Nobody ever receives anybody's coordinates. Only a distance band — and no operator screen shows them either. A database check enforces it.
  • Meetups happen in curated public places. A library, a campus green, a coffee shop. There is no custom-location field to abuse.
  • Showing up is what counts. A meetup is closed out by being there. A no-show is recorded against the pair, and they go on cooldown.
  • Every operator action is attributable. Written to an append-only log under a named person — including the ones that were refused.

Where things stand

Waitlist
Open at sarx.link/early. A campus stays shut until enough of it has signed up, and the quickest way to open it is to bring your chapter.
App
A native iOS app, in build. The screens in this section are the concept it is built to, drawn from the same components on every page.
Launch
First campuses go live this fall, one at a time.

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