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Candle

Candle helps couples and friends grow closer daily in just 5 minutes.

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About Candle

Most relationships, romantic or platonic, don’t end in one moment, they drift apart over time. Missed check-ins, surface-level conversations, busy lives, and routines replace real connection. Candle helps couples and friends stay close through 1-minute daily rituals that bring back presence, play, and curiosity. Candle gives couples and friends a daily, low-pressure game designed to create emotional momentum: the most essential, and often most neglected, ingredient in long-term connection. What started as a swipeable questions game has grown into a full platform and private space for your relationship: - Daily Prompts & Games: Thoughtful, funny, and unexpected questions, couple quizzes, audio and photo challenges that update and adapt monthly - Shared Canvas Widget: Leave notes, doodles, or drawings right on each other’s home screen - Now in beta: Date Ideas Swiping**: Get 60 curated date ideas based on your area (yes, even San Francisco :)), updated weekly. Swipe to match on what you both want to try. From pop-up events to hidden gems, it’s the easiest way to try something new together or even with friends or family! We’d love feedback here! - Streaks & Shared Progress — Build accountability and a shared rhythm - Adaptive Decks: Smarter, more relevant questions over time - Shared Photo Albums & Memories: Keep track of all your photos and logged memories

Quick facts

YC Batch
Fall 2024
Founded
2024
Headquarters
San Francisco
Team size
2
Industry
Consumer • Consumer
Tags
artificial-intelligence, consumer, ai
Website
www.trycandle.app
Profiles
LinkedIn · Twitter · Crunchbase

Founders

Alex Ruber
Co-Founder and CEO
Co-founder, CEO @ Encore, building design-first consumer AI products that help people build better habits Ex iOS/Arch Engineer @ Apple Ex Flight Systems/Sequencing Engineer @ NASA JPL Non-technical hobbies: soccer, sur…
Parth Chopra
Co-Founder and CTO
Co-founder & CTO of Encore - building for the future generation of consumer AI. Prior to this, worked on ads relevance & ranking @ Twitter, and architected changes to the sharing/permissions framework @ Asana. Hobbies:…

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