Connie and Kyle were two singles looking for love in San Francisco. One thing connected them: both used Notion to create “date-me docs”—profile pages that they could circulate to find love outside of the swiping turnstile of dating apps. After a chance encounter at a hackathon, they exchanged docs (one of which was famous). The rest is history.
Notion: Let’s go back to the beginning. How did your worlds collide?
Connie: The first time we met was at a hackathon, but I’d actually heard about Kyle a few weeks before. One of my (hard-to-impress) friends mentioned he met a “super dope guy who was showing us how to do handstands.” So I looked him up on Twitter, saw his date-me doc, and thought: This is really good.
Notion: Wait—tell us a little more about what a date-me doc is.
Kyle: I wanted a canvas to creatively broadcast exactly who I am. So instead of using any app with a rigid form, I made my date-me doc in Notion. It was essentially my homepage.
I had actually seen Connie’s date-me doc as I was making mine.
Notion: So you had date-me docs common. Connie, did you reach out to Kyle?
Connie: I didn’t message him at the time, but filed it away. A few weeks later, a friend was going to a hackathon, so I tagged along. I immediately recognized that the guy giving the demo was Kyle!
We exchanged Twitters, and when he opened mine, he said, “Oh, you have a date-me doc, too!” So he messaged me his doc (which of course I’d already seen), and I knew that was my shot.