After indicating your preferred candidates, pick a time and area that you'll be available for a date the next day, and The Round will take it from there. It's simple enough: At 2pm every day, local users of The Round can log on and browse through the profiles of fellow speed-daters for 10 minutes. "I almost see our application more as a utility than entertainment," describes Casler. Where other services prefer to keep your attention on their app – hours of swiping, messaging, or obsessively adjusting your profile to perfection – rather than on potential dates, The Round hopes to cut to the chase.
The Austin-based co-founder and CEO of the new dating app, The Round, hopes to break the endless cycle of back-and-forth chatting and potential ghosting that plagues online dating.
Zachary Casler has a question for single Austinites: How much of your time these days (especially during doomscrolling quarantine) is dedicated to swiping left or right?