Invite-only · opens September 1st
One connection, at a time.
A dating app built to make you stop shopping. While you’re connected to someone, the rest of the app disappears. No swipe stack. No what if.
App Launch in
Connected · just you two
Maya.
The way to win me over
Tell me the long version. I have nowhere to be.
Illustrative mockup · person shown is AI generated
The problem
Most dating apps are slot machines.
Pull, see who’s next, pull again. The good ones get buried under the maybe-better ones, and the maybe-better ones get buried too. Nobody is choosing. Everybody is shopping, and everybody is tired.
The absence of everyone else is the feature.
Inside Sole
Bright while you look. Warm once you stop.
Sole has exactly two modes, and the whole design lives in the difference between them.
- Sole.Search
Ananya.
29 · JUBILEE HILLS“I will happily argue about the best biryani in the city.”
NextLikeSearch · one at a time
Maya.
Connected · day 3
Subhan, near the Charminar. That’s my answer and I’m not moving.
Bold, for someone who has never been to Nimrah.
Saturday. Bring an appetite and a rebuttal.
Ten o’clock. I’ll be the one already ordering.
Deal. Don’t be late. I won’t wait, but I will save you one.
Everyone else is hidden while you’re here
Write something…Connected · the world for two
- Profile
Arjun.
29 · 4 kmThe way to win me over
Tell me what you’re reading, then actually lend it to me.
0:21Ask to connectProfile · read, not scanned
Illustrative mockups · people shown are AI generated
Verified, once
Everyone here is real.
We check that once, at the door, so nobody inside has to wonder who they’re talking to. It is a protection, not a wall, and no one is turned away because a haircut confused a camera.
How the check works, screen by screenAbout thirty seconds
A short video and a face match, once, when you sign up. Good light, no hat. Take your time. There’s no clock.
The video doesn’t stay
We match it against your photos, then delete the recording. What stays is a face map: numbers, not pictures, and it goes when your account does.
A ban means something
Bans attach to the verified person, not the email address. A new inbox doesn’t get anyone back in.
Opens September 1st
Be first through the door.
The first 1,000 people to sign up after we open get a month free. The list is how you find out we’ve opened: an email, that morning, with a way in.
Sole opens on .
Questions
Short answers, honest ones.
Is Sole free?
The first 1,000 people to sign up after we open get their first month free. After that Sole is paid, because we would rather charge you than sell your attention back to you, and pricing lands before launch. The waitlist doesn’t hold one of those 1,000 places for you; it means you hear the morning we open, which is how you get there first.
Why do I have to verify my face?
Because everyone else did. It is a short video and a face match, about thirty seconds, once, at sign-up. It is what lets us say that every person you meet on Sole is a real, unique human, and it is how bans actually stick.
When does it open?
September 1st. Everyone on the waitlist gets an email that morning with a way in. Before then we write to you about the list and about launch, and nothing promotional unless you have asked us for it.
Why only one connection at a time?
Because a full inbox is why good matches get dropped. There is always someone taller, funnier, closer. When the rest of the app disappears, the person in front of you gets read properly. The absence of everyone else is the feature.
What do you keep?
For the waitlist: your email address, nothing else. No name, no password, no social sign-in. We use it to confirm you joined and to tell you the morning Sole opens, never for marketing unless you ask for it, and you can have it deleted at any time at hello@soledating.app.