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Choose what interests you
Your interests add context to who you are. They aren’t turned into a compatibility score.
A more natural way to meet people
Start with something in common.
Affinomy brings people together through shared interests and genuine conversation. Because there's more to someone than a photo and a few lines in their profile.
Shared interests create the opening. What happens next is up to the two of you.
Made in Australia. Preparing for invite-only testing.
Illustrative images and examples — not member profiles.
The idea
There’s more to someone than first impressions.
Dating apps have become very good at showing us people. But seeing someone isn’t the same as getting to know them. Affinomy starts with the things people genuinely enjoy. A shared interest does not guarantee compatibility — it simply gives a conversation somewhere to begin.
How it works
Get to know someone, one conversation at a time.
Affinomy is designed to make meeting feel more like entering a familiar social space than opening a stack of dating profiles.
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Find your Rooms
Rooms are broad shared spaces such as Music, Outdoors & Nature, Food & Cooking or Ideas & Learning.
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Share something real
Each Room presence includes an Expression and Conversation Starter — something current enough to respond to, not a frozen bio.
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See where it goes
Reply, Wave and talk when there is a reason to. Affinomy is designed to help a conversation begin, then get out of its way.
Why it’s different
Less scoring. Less performing. More noticing.
Observation over scoring
If someone talks about riding every weekend and painting once a month, you learn something by noticing. Affinomy doesn’t need to turn that into a percentage.
Connection over consumption
The goal is not to keep you endlessly browsing. A dating product succeeds when the right people no longer need it.
Conversation with context
You should rarely have to invent an opening line from nothing. A person’s Room update already gives you somewhere meaningful to start.
Mutuality by design
Preferences and boundaries should work both ways. Seeing someone should mean there is a genuine basis for both people to be there.
Safety & privacy
Connection only works when people can feel safe enough to be themselves.
Affinomy is being designed with privacy, mutual boundaries and user control as product requirements, not extras to add later.
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Approximate rather than public precise location
Distance can help people meet without turning profiles into map pins.
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Block and report controls
People can remove unwanted contact and report concerning behaviour.
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Private media handling
Profile, Room and Chat images are handled through access-controlled storage rather than public galleries.
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Safety work before scale
Security, moderation and Australian privacy/online-safety obligations are being reviewed before broader release.
Why I’m building it
I don’t want to build another dating app that makes people feel like products.
Endless swiping and increasingly narrow filters can make meeting someone feel more like shopping than getting to know a person.
I want to explore whether a dating app can do a better job of helping two people discover each other through shared interests, then leave the app and continue getting to know each other in the real world.
Affinomy began with a simple idea: having something in common gives people a natural place to start. What happens after that is for them to discover. The project is still early. I’m preparing to test the idea carefully, learn from real people and avoid building features simply because other dating apps have them.
— Stephen, founder of Affinomy
Project status
Affinomy is not publicly open yet.
The product is preparing for controlled testing. We want to learn whether the experience helps people connect before making promises to a larger audience.
Questions
What people usually want to know.
Is Affinomy a dating app?
Yes. It is being built for people looking for a relationship, but it approaches discovery through shared interests and conversation rather than rapid profile judgement.
Can I join now?
Not publicly. We’re preparing for controlled, invitation-only testing.
Does sharing an interest mean we’re compatible?
Not necessarily. Having something in common gives you a starting point. Getting to know one another is how you find out whether there’s more.
Does Affinomy calculate a compatibility score?
No. Preferences can determine whether two people should be discoverable to each other, but Affinomy’s philosophy is observation over scoring.
Will Affinomy have endless swiping?
That is not the direction. The product is being designed around Rooms, current expressions and mutual interaction rather than a swipe-first catalogue.
Where is Affinomy being developed?
Affinomy is an Australian project preparing for a small controlled testing group.