Thurst: A Queer Hookup App

This is Thurst

Thurst is an app for queer cis, trans, and non-binary folks who are seeking to connect in person. The app is for the people who are tired of apps made for cis, white men and heteroromantic individuals.

Have you heard: "I wish there were a Grindr app, but for women" or "Just because I'm bisexual doesn't mean I want to get hit up for threesomes." Then this app might be for you.

Thurst is a free, geo-location based dating and hookup app tailored to your wants and desires, allowing users to find a group of people around them at all times based on their specific criteria and security settings. 

This app will include features specific to the queer community:

• Levels of privacy and security features for trans and non-binary users
• A comprehensive list of gender identities, pronouns, sexuality, and relationship styles
• A section to designate kink and fetish 
• Search based on a variety on non-gender based factors
• Filters based on PoC/Non-PoC designation and political beliefs
• Use of aliases and unlimited name changing
• Blocking and reporting options and a detailed policy regarding abuse, consent, and violence in various online and offline spaces
• Levels of non-oppressive identity verification to block predators, trolls, and known community abusers
• A well designed verbal and visual messaging system with unlimited storage

What is Needed?

The funds will go to towards app design and paying developers of color to help make Thurst a reality. The funds will also facilitate the creation of a dedicated team of radical tech and design folks who will build, support, and successfully market this app so that people in many geographic regions can have access to it. The goal is to launch the beta version of Thurst before the end of 2015 and have a running, bug-free app on Android and iOS by 2016.

Your donations, support, shares, retweets, conversations, and blog posts all go a long way! Community is essential and if this is something you'd like to see exist, please reach out to your community of friends, family, and others who might be interested. Ultimately, we'd love to reach a point where we can begin to decolonize the online dating and hookup scene and create a space where marginalized folks can be as thursty as they want. 

Updates will be posted on this page and make sure to like Thurst on Facebook! Help make Thurst a reality today!