Services · Mobile app development · Dating apps
Codeeo provides dating app development New York founders and matchmakers need when the audience is dense, diverse and impatient. We build the member app, the trust and safety console and the operations back office as one system. New York's Internet Dating Safety law requires a safety awareness notification for New York members, and the SHIELD Act requires reasonable safeguards for private information, including biometric data. Both are designed into the product from the first sprint, not added when a lawyer asks.
Codeeo has no New York office. We work remotely with clients in the city and across the state, and every workshop, review and demo takes place by video call. You get a single team for product, code and safety groundwork, and you own all of it.
200+ companies across the US and the UAEFrom a first store to a listed developer
Platform features
In New York, two people a mile apart might be one subway stop or a long transfer away, and many members never drive at all. Schedules are packed, so a match that cannot meet this week is often a match lost. Members also share apartments, offices and commutes with people they would rather not see on a dating feed. The law adds its own requirements. General Business Law section 394-cc obliges internet dating services with New York members to show a safety awareness notification at registration and link to it from the main page, with the attorney general as enforcer. The SHIELD Act requires reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards and prompt breach notices. These features answer both the city and the statutes.
When a member registers with a New York billing address or ZIP code, the app shows the safety awareness notification section 394-cc describes: caution with strangers, keeping identifying details out of early messages and planning first meetings in public. The same notice is linked from the home screen and website, and the text is editable by your team.
The state notice appears exactly where the law expects it.
Members can choose boroughs, neighborhoods and subway lines they use rather than a mileage radius, so someone in Astoria can prefer matches along the N and W or across the bridge in Manhattan. Exact locations are never shared, and distance shows as a neighborhood or rounded figure.
Matches that are easy to reach on the way home.
Members can upload a list of contacts or names to hide from, block whole employers or buildings, and pause visibility while traveling. In a city where colleagues and neighbors share apps, these controls often decide whether someone signs up at all.
Privacy from coworkers, roommates and exes.
Once matched, members can share free evenings, suggest a bar or cafe from a list of public venues and confirm a plan without trading phone numbers. Reminders and a trusted contact share follow the meet in public advice from the New York notice.
Fewer matches fade out before a first date.
Encryption in transit and at rest, role based access for staff, vendor assessments, logging and an incident response plan form the reasonable safeguards the SHIELD Act describes. Selfie templates and account credentials are covered as private information, so we keep them to the minimum and test the breach notice process before launch.
A documented security program you can show a regulator or investor.
New Yorkers date in Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Bengali, Haitian Creole and many other languages. We support member chosen languages for the interface and safety notices, and route reports in other languages to reviewers who can read them properly.
The safety notice is understood, not just displayed.
For firms that introduce clients personally, matchmakers get private client profiles, notes, introduction history, feedback after dates and scheduling, with access limited by role. Clients review introductions and give feedback in a polished app that reflects the service level they pay for.
Personal matchmaking with records kept secure.
Reports, flagged photos and scam patterns arrive in queues ranked by risk, with full account history and a required reason for each action. Appeals, law enforcement requests and repeat offenders are tracked, and moderation decisions are logged so they can be reviewed later.
Consistent moderation across a large, busy member base.
Premium plans run through Apple and Google, with Apple Pay and Google Pay on any web checkout the stores allow. New York's automatic renewal rules expect clear terms before purchase and an easy way to cancel, so both sit in the account screen in plain words.
Members trust the billing and stay longer.
A selfie check against profile photos awards a verified badge, and members can choose to see only verified people. Behind the scenes, reused stock photos, sudden requests to switch to another messenger and talk of investments or money transfers raise a flag for moderators, while the person receiving the message sees a short warning about common New York romance scams.
Fake accounts are slowed down before they reach real members.
Who we work with
New York supports more kinds of dating businesses than almost anywhere else, from Manhattan matchmaking firms to community introductions in Brooklyn and Queens and speed dating nights downtown. Custom dating app development New York operators ask us for tends to start from one of these four positions, each with different safety and privacy priorities.
Firms serving busy professionals hold detailed client files, preferences and sometimes background information supplied by clients. We replace spreadsheets and email threads with a secure workspace, role based access and a client app for introductions and feedback, while matchmakers keep the personal judgment their clients pay for. Introductions can be staged so a client sees one match at a time, with a reminder to give feedback after each date.
Records secured under the SHIELD Act, service kept personal.
Many communities in the city, including Orthodox Jewish, South Asian and Arab American families, arrange introductions with relatives or a matchmaker involved. We build optional family or guardian roles that members turn on themselves, community specific questions and strict controls on who can see photos and details. Language preferences and dietary or observance details stay visible only to the people the member approves.
A founder with a fresh idea, such as dating by neighborhood, by activity or by shared commute, needs a first release that proves demand without cutting safety. We scope sign up, verification, matching, chat and the 394-cc notice first, then add features once density is real in the launch neighborhoods. Early members in Brooklyn or the Lower East Side give the feedback that shapes the next release.
Companies running singles nights in Manhattan and Brooklyn want ticketing, check in, mutual match selection after the event and a way to keep attendees engaged between nights. We build those tools so contact details are shared only when both people say yes. Hosts can see who attended, who matched and which venues bring people back.
Events feed the app and the app fills the events.
How engagements work
Codeeo has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US. Our team of 80+ works from Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, and we are rated 4.7 from 23 Google reviews. As a dating app development company New York clients reach by video call, we work fully remotely. Most founders begin with a fixed scope first release covering safety notices, verification, matching and chat. After launch, a monthly retainer keeps apps, security controls and moderation tools current. Established operators may prefer dedicated developers who join their own team and process. Scope and estimates are agreed in writing before any build is charged.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
We select native or cross platform frameworks, US cloud regions and vendors for verification, moderation and messaging according to your audience and your team. Each vendor is assessed for security controls, the data it keeps and how it would notify you of an incident, since SHIELD Act duties stay with you.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
A safety awareness notification for New York members, among other duties.
General Business Law section 394-cc applies to internet dating services offering services to New York members, identified by billing address or ZIP code. The service must provide a clear and conspicuous notification listing safer dating measures, including statements on caution with strangers, protecting personal details and meeting in public. It must appear at registration and be linked from the main page. The attorney general enforces it. We keep the notice text in the back office so your counsel can adjust it without shipping a new build.
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