There is no dating app for people who are divorced with kids — the logistics make standard dating apps useless

You are 38, divorced, with 2 kids on a 50/50 custody schedule. You have every other week free. Your potential match also has kids on a different custody schedule — they are free on opposite weeks. You will never have a free evening at the same time unless one of you gets a babysitter (expensive and hard to arrange for a first date with a stranger). Standard dating apps have no custody schedule awareness. You match, message for days, try to find a mutual free evening, fail 3 times, and the connection dies from scheduling friction. So what? 50% of marriages end in divorce. There are 14 million single parents in the US. They are the largest underserved demographic in dating. Their #1 constraint is not attractiveness or compatibility — it is logistics. Can we physically be in the same place at the same time? No dating app addresses this. You cannot filter by custody schedule, cannot see someone's availability pattern, and cannot coordinate babysitting. Every date requires solving a constraint satisfaction problem that the app ignores entirely. Why does this persist? Single parents are less attractive to advertisers (lower disposable income) and less engaged users (less time to swipe). Apps optimize for the 25-34 childless demographic who have time and money. Building custody-schedule-aware matching is a niche feature for a segment that mainstream apps do not prioritize.