Saturday at eight: video speed dating from your own room

Saturday at eight. You are at home. The app puts you face to face, on video, with a few people the evening keeps in balance, eight minutes each. Enough to know.

No profile to write. No photos to hand over. No messages from strangers, ever. Afterwards, a conversation opens only if you both say yes. Otherwise nothing opens, and nobody is told.

Leave with one tap. The round ends on the clock. The evening ends for everyone at the same minute. No bar, no drink, no journey home. The evening out, without going out.

This is how it works. Get the Synchronized Presence app and sign in with your phone number. In the app, register for Saturday. At half past seven, open the app and sit the 21 minutes with everyone. Eight, the first round. The seats are given at ten to eight, to the people who are there, so the sit is the waiting room.

The first public evening is Saturday 24 October. One room for the whole UK, one for Ireland, both at eight; wherever you live, you are in your country’s room. Free this autumn under the launch offer; a ticket is normally £5 or €6. Everyone in the room signed in with a phone number and is seen live, and anyone can be reported and blocked in a tap. That is what we can promise about the person across from you, and nothing more.

Get the app, register for Saturday, and at half past seven open it and sit. Eight, the first round.

The rest of the week, the same app sits together every evening at half past seven, in silence. That part is free and always was.

Written with an AI writing tool and read by a person before it appeared here. Synchronized Presence is a community, not a publisher: the sit is the point, the reading is optional.

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