Our Mission

Designed to end at dinner.

Eight is the first love app built to disappear from your screen the moment you're sitting across from someone real. Eight minutes. Twice a week. 20:00 Lisbon.

The problem

The category stopped producing dates.

Dating apps optimized for time-on-app, not time-with-people. The product turned strangers into inventory and conversation into work. 78% of matches never convert to a single message exchanged.

Match Group's stock is down roughly 80% from its peak. The product broke before the people did. We don't believe the answer is another swipe deck with a new color palette. We believe the answer is a different shape entirely.

Three principles

How Eight is different.

★ 01 / Principle

Faces, not feeds.

Live video. Humanos verificados. No catfish, no bots, no Tinder swiper fatigue. The first thing you see is the person.

★ 02 / Principle

Less app, more life.

The room is open 60 minutes a week. The other 167 hours are yours. Eight is the only love app designed to be closed.

★ 03 / Principle

Trust is product.

ID verification is not a feature, it's the foundation. Every face has a real human behind it, reviewed within 24 hours.

Our commitments

What we promise never to do.

★ Never

Build for time-on-app.

Our retention metric is "did you meet someone in real life this month," not "minutes spent swiping." Every product decision is measured against that.

★ Never

Skip identity verification.

Every account passes a real human review within 24 hours. No paid tier shortcuts it. The face you see is the face you'll meet.

★ Never

Steal your evening.

The room closes at 21:00 Lisbon. Always. The product cannot keep you up past midnight, because the product is closed past midnight.

Where we're going

One million people fall in love between 20h and 21h.

One city tonight. Six cities by Christmas. By 2030, the largest synchronized first-date hour in the world.

Miguel · Afonso

A note from the founders

We built Eight because the dinners were not happening.

We were tired of watching our friends, smart, kind, beautiful people, stay single because the apps had quietly trained everyone to scroll instead of show up. We were tired of dating products that treat humans like inventory. Tired of conversations that died in the chat. Tired of dinners that never happened.

So we built the opposite of a swipe deck. A room that opens twice a week, at the same hour, for the same eight minutes. A product designed to end the moment a real plan begins. The night is the metric. Everything else is noise.

If we do this right, you'll forget the app exists somewhere between the second drink and the walk home. That's the point.

— Miguel & Afonso, co-founders

Designed to end at dinner.

The category stopped producing dates.

How Eight is different.

Faces, not feeds.

Less app, more life.

Trust is product.

Success is offline.

What we promise never to do.

Build for time-on-app.

Skip identity verification.

Steal your evening.

One million people fall in love between 20h and 21h.

We built Eight because the dinners were not happening.

Meet people, not profiles.