Me
I am Danil Nemirovsky. Twenty years of experience building distributed systems, most of the last decade in financial technology, and a PhD in computer science.
Peony's hard parts are the ones I have spent a career on: moving money correctly, and making a system behave sensibly when people do not. A dating app that charges when a date happens, and puts something at stake in turning up, is mostly those two problems wearing a nicer jumper.
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What that means for you
A one-person app is a fair thing to be wary of, so here is the honest shape of it. The things that must not depend on someone being awake — how a date is agreed, where you meet, whether turning up is checked — are built into the app rather than handled by people, and the safety page describes them. The things that do reach a person, like abuse@peony.social, reach one quickly, because there is no queue to sit in.
The company
Peony is made by Alsanthea Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales — the registered name, number and office are at the bottom of this page, and post reaches us there. General enquiries go to help@peony.social, and the support page has the rest of the addresses.
Peony launches in London at the end of October. iPhone and Android, both at once.