The Three Phases
Wildfire is built around a simple belief: real connection requires offering something of yourself first, before you know how it will be received. The whole app flows from that.
You browse profiles as Six Chapters — six photos, each paired with a written prompt response. When someone interests you, the only action available is to write them a message. No tapping a heart. No swiping. You compose something real, about something specific in their profile, and you send it. That message is the entry price.
Nothing unlocks until both of you have written. Until then, your message is in a pending state — visible to you, but the full conversation is closed. The moment they write back, a correspondence begins. Not a “match”. A correspondence — two people who both chose to reach toward each other at the same time. The Where You Align panel also unlocks, showing your shared first date preferences.
When the conversation is ready, the Invite them button sends a date invitation built from your shared preferences — the place type you both chose, the bill arrangement that works for both of you, the distance you’re both comfortable with. You go on a date. If it worked, you delete the app. We send you a memento card. That is our success metric.
Your Six Chapters
Your profile is not a bio. It is six cards — each one a photo paired with a written prompt. The photos are themed so that what someone sees is not a curated highlight reel but an honest cross-section of who you actually are.
“On a regular week, you’d find me ___”
“I got into this because ___”
“The story behind this photo is ___”
“This place matters to me because ___”
“The idea that changed how I see things ___”
“What’s actually happening here is ___”
The Vocabulary
The words an app uses shape how you feel inside it. We chose ours carefully.
Write to [Name] — not “Like.” Because you are offering something of yourself, not approving someone like a product.
A correspondence begins — not “It’s a match!” Because what happened is that two people both chose to reach toward each other. That is not a match. That is a beginning.
Not Interested — not “Pass.” Honest without being harsh. The person who receives this decision never sees it.
It worked. — What we call the delete button. Because if you’re leaving, that’s probably why.