Zari is a dating app with an economy. Tokens are earned by showing up. Completing your profile, holding a streak, scanning a barcode at a real meetup. The biggest payout, by design, is for the date itself.
Algorithms optimised for time-on-app made the chat the product, the date an after-thought, and the user the inventory.
Every reward in Zari ladders up to one moment: two people scanning a barcode at a table. It pays roughly seven times what a like does.
The token isn't a gimmick. It's an incentive structure. Used right, it turns a dating app back into a dating tool.
A 3×3 grid resets every 24 hours. Choose one cell. If a compatible person taps the same cell within the window, Zari opens a chat. If not, your token is refunded.
Permanent partner venues live on the map. Walk in, scan the barcode at the bar, and Zari credits your wallet. Spend the same tokens at the same place: free drinks, table reservations, owner-scanned discount codes.
A Zari Night turns a Saturday into a happening: reserved tables, our music, palm trees and a pink neon sign at the door. Open the map, see who already checked in, walk over.
Inside a chat, suggest a place and a time. The other side accepts or counters, once.
At the table, one user generates an HMAC-signed barcode that lives for ninety seconds.
The other scans. The server checks signature, freshness, GPS proximity and one-shot rule.
Treasury debits, both users credit. Two ledger lines per side. Done in under a second.
+100 tokens · eachZari is in preview. Side-load the Android APK, sign in with your phone, and earn your first twenty tokens by the end of the page after this one.
