00:04there are so many different dating apps but none of them have been created with a rural focus
00:11big sort of generic apps they their whole algorithm works on you know the whole quantity
00:18versus quality so that completely gets missed when you live in a remote town because they just
00:24aren't the numbers to be able to fulfill that you know like 100 kilometers that runs out pretty
00:30quickly so I just felt like there was a real gap from that side of things yeah it's really nice
00:36like
00:37even yesterday I got an invitation in the mail for a howdy wedding and you know it's really nice
00:44I've been sent ultrasound photos and yeah I always get told when people get engaged and
00:52married and all the exciting things yeah which in itself is very unusual like I can't imagine the
00:59CEO of tinder going to to weddings but I guess that's that's the perks of howdy is that it is
01:07it seems like this big company but it I've tried to keep the internal workings of it as small as
01:14possible like I just keep most things just me so when you do need a hand with something or you
01:19do
01:19want to tell me your success or ask a dating question or you just need a friend I can still
01:25provide that for people so that's just I guess another element of howdy that makes it just more
01:30more personal so there is there's just so many success stories it really does work and the beauty
01:37of it as well is that three quarters of the people that have found a relationship from howdy have been
01:43more than 300k's apart from one another so it's just a real testament that people are really open
01:50and willing to give long distance a go when it's the right person and it just makes it easy so
01:56yeah
01:56it's um it's pretty special we've got a pretty new um and exciting event little feature and it basically
02:04means that if you are out at an event we will just have qr codes up and it's like a
02:13different little
02:13version where it only lasts 24 hours your profile is really really basic um and you just fill out you
02:21know just your name date of birth and like your sexual preferences and gender and then you can only
02:27upload one photo um and it has to be just straight from your camera you can't use your camera roll
02:34so
02:34that's kind of fun that you just meet other people at that event with you um so it's just it's
02:41just
02:42doing lots of different things to try and combat the whole distance situation that people face trying
02:47to find connection in in rural areas and yeah just doing what I can to bring people together really
02:57like you know just having fun you know I've got a lot of different things like oh no
02:58yeah this is the name of the white guy is a good guy and you know what I can do
02:58yeah you know what i mean it's a great thing to do
