A Letter to Dating Apps Swiping Survivors: Why 2026 will be the year of meaningful connection

Hi Product Hunt community!

As 2025 comes to a close, I’ve been reflecting on a term our team uses often: "The Swiping Survivor."

If you’re like me, your 2025 dating retrospective might look like a graveyard of "Read" receipts, "Hey" opening lines that went nowhere, and the exhaustion of repeating your life story for the 20th time.

We built LoveActually.ai because we realized that traditional apps optimize for your engagement (keeping you swiping), not your connection.

I asked our two AI mascots, Astute Kitty and Loving Kitty, to give their "Year-End Review" of the current dating scene, and the results were... predictably different:

• 😼 Astute Kitty (The Strategist): "2025 was a disaster of 'social suicide.' Most of you treated your profiles like job resumes and your chats like HR interviews. My resolution for you in 2025? Stop guessing. Use data. If they don't align with your 9D Compatibility Profile, move on. Efficiency is the ultimate form of self-love."

• 🧸 Loving Kitty (The Emotional Support): "It’s okay to be tired. Ghosting isn't a reflection of your worth—it's a failure of the system. My 2026 resolution is to be your Long-term Memory. I’ll remember your favorite coffee, your boundaries, and your heartbreaks so you never have to feel like you're starting from zero again."

Our 2026 Mission: We are launching LoveActually to turn these reflections into a reality. We want 2026 to be the year you finally stop swiping and start connecting.

I’d love to hear from you: What is one dating habit or "algorithm trap" you are leaving behind in 2025? And what are you looking for in a partner (or an AI companion) for 2026?

Let’s help each other build better resolutions. 👇