About Junebug

What is Junebug?

Junebug's a new kind of dating site. Our only goals are to figure out what you want and how to provide it to you in a way that makes sense. We're not here to tell you who you should date or what kind of person you'd be happiest marrying. And we're definitely not going to overwhelm you with a search list of matches that you couldn't possibly be less interested in. We just want to provide you with some good options and then let you decide for yourself.

How we match people

We've got a totally new approach to matching people, but we need your help. We need you to give us basic some basic information about yourself. Then we need you to rate a bunch of the profiles we show you. When you've rated 50 profiles or so, we'll have enough information to start really customizing the site to your preferences. As you rate even more profiles, we'll get better and better at inferring your preferences. To make sure we're doing a good job, we'll even ask you whether or not we're getting anywhere from time to time. Please do let us know if we're doing a good job.


Think of us as a real matchmaker that will get to know your tastes in potential dates over time. In the real world, your friends can usually tell who you're going to like right off the bat. And they definitely know who you're not going to have any interest in. We think that we can learn the same things about you if you give us a chance.

To do all this, we do have to collect information about you and your tastes. We guarantee you that you'll never have to worry about this information being shared with any outside parties. We may customize the ads we show on the site, but this is done entirely in-house. We definitely will not give any information out about you to anyone at any time. We think that websites that give away your personal life to the highest bidder are pretty scummy. We'd like you to think of us as totally trustworthy, because that will help us give you what you really want, instead of what you'd being willing to admit to in public.

Protecting your Privacy

Only your profile is public to other users. We ask you for information about your personality through quizzes, but your answers to those quizzes are totally private unless you tell us you want to be sharing them. If not, we use that information behind-the-scenes.

Because our site's entirely based on customizing our matches to your personal preferences, the results you get will be pretty generic at the start. It takes some time to customize things to your taste. You can help speed up the process by telling us what you want by e-mail, by rating more profiles and by telling us which profiles you don't want to ever show up in search results again.

Before you decide to sign up, you can always play around on the site as much as you'd like. Once you tell us where you're looking to meet people, you can search through other people's profiles on our site. You won't see profiles from users who've chosen to hide their profiles to the outside world, but you can convince yourself that you might find someone you like here. If you think you'd like to join, it's completely free. And it will always be completely free. We hate websites that charge for their services when the cost to them is nearly zero for each new user. It seems unfair to us, and we think it's bad business for the websites themselves.

And, besides, we pretty sure that we've got a better platform than the paid dating sites anyway. We'd like to think that we can give you something better than they offer for free. And if we don't give you what you want, or you see something that annoys you, just let us know so that we can fix it as soon as possible. We can only succeed if we give you what you want, so the more often you tell us what you want, the better we'll be doing.

We'd love to hear from you.
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