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You meet your soulmate every day but have you never acted on it? Our mission is to give you the power to start a conversation with the stranger ‎next to you.
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What is Basbes?

Basbes is a chat/dating app that gives you the opportunity to create a conversation with the nearby person you feel attracted to without the guilt of disturbing someone’s privacy and without embarrassing yourself.

You don’t need a dating app that claims to know more than you and can choose the best fit for you. All you need is just a way to enhance your reality and give you the chance to make the most of the potential lovers you meet every day.

You can think of Basbes as a ring for bachelors that the world forgot to invent, a ring that tells you that the person sitting in front of you is not in a relationship, is actively looking for a partner, and may welcome talking to you.

Frequently asked questions

No, Basbes doesn’t know anything about your GPS location.

Basbes uses ultrasonic sound to determine nearby devices. Think of it like whales’ songs, whenever your device hears the ultrasonic sound of another device it means there is a user close to you, now all what your device has to do is fetching the data of the found user.

GPS isn’t reliable indoors, underground, or at transportation (because both of you are constantly ‎moving), moreover the GPS wide range will probably fetch people who are living in the same block, and ‎that’s not what Basbes is built for, remember it only finds people you can see by your bare eye, ‎ people you are desperate to start a conversation with but you usually freeze due to social norms or embarrassment‎. Basbes doesn’t aim to suggest people for you like conventional matchmaking apps. ‎

Yes, you can switch your visibility off at any time, in case you are at a place you don’t want to be ‎detected, or if there is someone shouldn’t know you are using Basbes app.‎

Unlike other dating apps, Basbes doesn’t have any mechanism for matchmaking, Basbes doesn’t claim to know what is the best for you and it doesn’t suggest suitable people for you based on your profile information that doesn’t reflect your real character. The only thing in common between you and someone you find in Basbes’s search result that you both at the same place, and that’s the only reliable way to find someone shares the same interests with you.

Yes, you can start a conversation right away, unlike other dating apps which requires approval of both parties before initiating a conversation.‎

The searching process goes on for maximum 10 minutes, if you can’t find your target by then, ‎maybe ‎he/she chooses not to be visible right now, or maybe he/she doesn’t use Babses in the first ‎place. Of ‎course you can repeat the search process as many times as you want, but remember, if you can’t find ‎you targe within 10 minutes probably you will never find it.‎

Since you receive messages from strangers without your consent, those messages must be covered ‎to ‎protect you from accidently reading annoying messages from someone you are out of his/her league. ‎‎Scratching the message accomplishes two things, the first thing is you are not only favoring the ‎sender, ‎but also you like every single letter he/she sends you, and if you don’t like where that conversation is ‎going, you can stop scratching the rest of the message. The second thing is the sender ‎won’t suffer ‎from the guilt of disturbing your peace, as you will never exert this ‎effort unless you are ‎so into ‎him/her.‎

Yes, you can specify a privacy setting for each social media link, whether it should be public or private.‎

No, Basbes doesn’t use Wi-Fi or Bluetooth to search for users around you.

The maximum range you can detect others is about 12 ‎meters with no barriers between both of you. ‎‎No walls, doors, windows, glasses or any barriers in between, don’t even ‎put your device inside your pocket.‎

The range of Bluetooth or Wi-Fi is up to 100 meter and it’s waves can penetrate walls, which means it ‎‎can find people not in the same room as you‎, and ‎that’s not what Basbes is built for, remember it only ‎‎finds people you can see by your bare ‎eye, ‎ people you are desperate to start a conversation with but ‎‎you usually freeze due to social norms or embarrassment‎, ‎Basbes doesn’t aim to suggest people for ‎you like conventional ‎matchmaking apps. Besides, iPhone smartphones can’t find the Bluetooth of ‎android devices.‎

Yes, it effects your battery life, Basbes app uses sound to determine proximity, so when you set ‎yourself visible to others, your device will keep playing a short ultrasonic sound every now and then, ‎which consumes the battery to some extent. It’s preferred to disable visibility when you don’t need to ‎use Basbes.‎

Because Basbes is actually considered to be a chatting app ‎more than a dating app, it’s just a tool gives ‎you the ‎ability to communicate with a stranger you already see face to face without embarrassing ‎yourself, it enhances your real life to make the most of the chances you already have, the chances ‎you ‎usually forsake. You are the one who chooses the person you like, you are the one who chooses ‎what ‎to say and when, it’s all about the connection you feel with the chosen one, it’s all about you, ‎your ‎crush, and your pick-up line, that’s all. ‎

Because love was never born between two people admirer each other in the same time, but ‎rather ‎begins with someone believes in another to an extent that he offers his heart, and someone ‎disbelieves in himself to the point of making him accept.‎ In real life, someone must risk revealing his ‎feelings without being able to predict the reaction of the ‎other one. This risk is the one thing that ‎separates those who came to buy and those who came to ‎bargain, it’s the big holes that let your net ‎skip small fishes.‎

All conventional matchmaking ‎apps have common flaws that make them fail before you even start ‎using them.‎

  1. All matchmaking ‎apps have the same reversed steps for love, first it finds you ‎‎someone suitable for ‎your educational, social and financial level, then arranges a meeting to make sure there is any ‎attraction may spark between both of you, unlike Basbes which works ‎‎in a more natural way, first you ‎see someone you are ‎attracted to, then you arrange a meeting to make ‎sure you two are suitable for ‎each other.‎
  2. All matchmaking ‎apps will make you meet people how are forcing their hearts to love you, when you ‎use conventional dating apps, you find a person who wants be loved immediately and will settle for ‎the first available choice, and that available choice happens to be ‎you, you are not ‎his/her soul mate, ‎you are just a hologram helps him to project his feelings. Basbes on the other hand is just a tool you ‎keep in case you cross by someone special, ‎you ‎are not forcing your heart, you only use Basbes ‎because your heart will be broken if you let that special person go.‎
  3. The problem with using dating apps for most people is the fact that they have to admit ‎they have ‎failed to find someone understands and cares for them by normal means, like if they ‎need a wizard or ‎some kind of magic just to be noticed, but on the other hand, Basbes is just an ‎enhancement to the ‎chances they have already, it’s like make-up which enhances the ‎face you already have, not a plastic ‎surgery that tells you your face is not working.‎

As it’s so cruel to block someone who already can see you, Basbes has to come up with a new feature ‎to set a timer for the conversation to be active, and once the period you specified ends, the sender ‎can’t send you more messages ‎unless you ‎‎reactivate the conversation by providing additional time, so ‎you basically consent to communicate with ‎the sender not only once, but over and over again. This ‎way you won’t feel the pressure to continue a useless conversation just because the person ‎you ‎‎neglect is setting in front of you, as the sender will always assume you just forgot to reactivate the ‎‎conversation.‎ ‎‎

You muse send the user a request to reveal the private links you selected, once the user approves ‎your request, you can access the private links as if they were public.‎

Our vision

Humans are no different than animals when it comes to breeding, first you feel attracted to someone ‎you see in front of you, then you check if you are suitable for each other, not the other way around. ‎That’s why starting a relationship with someone outside the circle of your acquaintances shouldn’t be ‎a stigma, it’s no different that going to a doctor you don’t know personally.

The only problem with ‎expressing your feelings to a stranger is that you might annoy him/her, that’s what we are trying to ‎solve, by making the process less annoying by organizing it using technology.‎

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We would be hypocrites‏ ‏if we let you contact strangers but not us. We are here to hear you.
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