ClassmateCatch.com a new dating website exclusively for college and university students. ClassmateCatch is currently open to students at the University of Ottawa, Carleton University, Algonquin College, and Queen’s University.
Christopher Gimmer says he came up with the idea when he was a Carleton student struggling to meet girls. “I found it was difficult to meet girls outside of my program, especially once I got into third and fourth year. The classes got really specific and I was always taking classes with the same people,” says Gimmer. “This site makes it much easier to interact and find dating partners outside of your faculty and even outside of your university.”
ClassmateCatch has a number of features that make it unique in the online dating world, site works as a simple search system rather than a complex match system. Users can see who’s online, who goes to their own school, who recently joined the network, and more.
“Obviously, the main difference is the fact that it’s a student-only dating website,” Gimmer says. “Users will need their school email to sign up, and you’ll get a confirmation email sent there, and that’s how you have to verify your account.”
Besides being exclusive to students, the site is also private. Only registered users are able to view other users’ profiles and contact them through live chat or by sending a message.
“It’s 100 per cent free,” says Gimmer. “Even though there are a lot of other dating sites, like Plenty of Fish for example, where you still have to pay for certain features on the site, there’s not one feature on our site that we charge for. It’s legitimately, absolutely, 100 per cent free.”
