How Gausser works

The six rules

These are the whole product. Everything else is detail.

1. Hard dealbreakers gate both ways. You never see someone who fails your dealbreakers, and they never see you if you fail theirs.
2. Your filters come with a receipt. Before you commit to a filter, we show you what it costs you — in members, as a percentage, in the open.
3. Your deck is built from people likely to like you back, with a couple of hopeful reaches beyond it.
4. An attention thermostat paces how often you are introduced to others, so nobody's inbox becomes a firehose.
5. Everyone gets 8 likes a day. No more, no rollover, no exceptions.
6. Nobody can pay to skip any of the above. There is nothing to buy.

What we optimise for

We show you people likely to like you back — we optimise for dates, not browsing.

That means we are not trying to maximise your time in the app, your swipe count, or your match count. If those numbers go up while real dates do not, we treat that as a problem, not a win.

We never show you a desirability score, a rank, or a percentile. Not on your profile, not on anyone else's, not in any part of the app. Those numbers exist to sort a queue and they stay inside our servers.

What “active member” means

An active member is someone who has opened Gausser in the last 14 days.

Every percentage in your Filter Receipt is measured against active members only. We publish this definition because a receipt measured against dormant accounts would be a flattering lie.

Why there is sometimes a line

We admit new members at the rate that keeps the ratio of men and women fair in each city. Right now that usually means a line for men. It's the same rule that makes your likes land when you're in.

If you are on the side a city is short of, you are admitted straight away. Same-sex matching is not ratio-gated at all.

How your likes are spent

Your 8 covers everyone — Deck and Queue. Liking someone back from your Queue spends from the same daily 8 as liking someone from your Deck.

Passing is always free, and it stays available when you have run out of likes.

Your likes reset at midnight where you live. They do not roll over. There is no way to buy more, and there never will be.

Your queue

Everyone who likes you appears in your Queue, in full, for free. There is no blur, no paywall, and no “see who liked you” upsell.

Queue items never expire. Waiting costs you nothing and costs them nothing.

We never send you a push notification for a single incoming like. At most you get one quiet daily summary, and you can turn that off.

Pacing and the thermostat

If your queue gets ahead of you, we ease off introducing you to new people until you have caught up. It re-opens on its own as you work through it.

New profiles start at a measured pace while we learn what your inbox can hold.

You control the target yourself with a slider in Settings. There is no recommended setting and no nudge toward a particular number.

Passing and dealbreakers

Pass means not now — people you pass may return after 30 days. Dealbreakers are the permanent no.

You can demote any dealbreaker to a preference at any time. A preference changes the order of your deck; it never hides anyone.

There are no paid exemptions from fairness

No boosts. No extra likes. No paid queue-jumping. No paywall on seeing who liked you.

If we ever charge for something, it will not be an exemption from any rule on this page. That is a commitment, not a current pricing decision.

There are no streaks, no expiry timers, no read receipts, and no invented urgency of any kind.

Safety and your data

You can block or report anyone from their profile or your chat. Reporting also blocks them, immediately and in both directions.

Every new or changed photo is screened before another member can see it.

You can delete your account from the app or the web, and export your data at any time. If an account is part of a safety report, we keep that report's evidence for as long as the law and our moderation policy require — even through deletion.

Race, religion and orientation are stored only if you explicitly consent, are used only for matching and filtering, and are never sold or used for advertising. “Prefer not to say” is always available.