Designing a Dating App and Building a Business You Love with Austin Kevitch

Just Grow With It with Natalie Barbu

Natalie Barbu

Education, Business, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.8 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Episode 129: You are going to want to swipe right on today’s episode as Natalie welcomes the founder of Lox Club, Austin Kevitch, to share some insider tips on how to stand out in the dating app scene. With more people staying home and turning to their devices to find love, Austin jumped on the opportunity to make a tongue and cheek dating app to help singles find someone their grandma would approve of. Austin is no stranger to the app development game as he’s built 30 apps in total! And now, his app Lox Club is generating some serious buzz from major publications such as The New York Times, Vogue, and Forbes for its unique and lighthearted approach to dating that focuses more on personality than photos. Tune in to hear how a fictional story about a speakeasy in a deli turned into an app, why it is so important build a business you would use yourself, and how Facetime can help you find that special someone. Thank you so much for being a part of our podcast community! Please be sure to rate, follow, review, and of course, post to your highlight reel. Follow your host Natalie on Instagram @nataliebarbu and @therealreelpodcast. Follow Austin on Instagram @austinkevitch and Lox Club @loxclub Thank you to our sponsors for making this episode possible. Check out these deals just for you: CANVA - Go to canva.me/realreel to get your FREE 45-day extended trial. QUIP - Go to getquip.com/realreel to save $10 on a quip Smart Electric Toothbrush. CUROLOGY - Go to curology.com/real for a free 30-day trial and just pay for shipping and handling! SMASH & TESS – Go to smashtess.com/realreell to shop and use code REALREEL at check out for 15% off your purchase! SHAMELESS PETS – Go to shamelesspets.com and use code realreel for 25% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation.
0:04.0	Welcome to the Real Real, where I take you behind the Instagram reel and into the real lives of
0:16.1	entrepreneurs, content creators, and anyone who inspires me and may inspire you too.
0:20.9	I'm your host Natalie Barboo and let's get into it.
0:27.1	Build a product or brand or art that you
0:30.4	use yourself want to exist like you would use it yourself.
0:34.0	So it should solve like a personal problem for you.
0:37.0	Or you have the thought, like wouldn't it be cool if this existed?
0:40.0	And also, build a minimal viable product, an MVP.
0:45.0	Test it, like I did with the website.
0:47.0	It only cost me like six hours of my time to build a website
0:50.0	to see if people will actually want to sign up for this. So like think of the
0:55.2	easiest way that you can test something, test the waters before actually diving
0:59.9	into it for time. Hello, hello, hello.
1:07.0	Welcome back to the Real Real Podcast with me, Natalie Barbu.
1:12.3	As always, I am so happy to be on the mic with you. I was actually
1:16.0	talking to someone the other day and I was telling them that being on the mic is literally therapy.
1:21.6	I feel like whenever you have a microphone in your hand or in front of you,
1:26.3	you feel so vulnerable and open and like you can talk about anything for some reason and it doesn't register to me that
1:32.4	thousands of people listen every
1:33.9	single week it just feels like it's just me talking to my group of friends and so
1:38.4	being on the mic just makes you really vulnerable if you have a podcast you
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