A Dating App for Queer Gamers: Kevin on Building Gamily
Sep 2, 2026 ·
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Davey is flying solo one more time, and this week he is talking to someone building something that arguably should have existed years ago. Kevin is the founder of Gamily,...
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Davey is flying solo one more time, and this week he is talking to someone building something that arguably should have existed years ago. Kevin is the founder of Gamily, a dating and friendship app built for gamers with LGBTQIA people front and centre. He built it with his husband Will and their co-founder Gabe, starting as a nights-and-weekends project during the pandemic, on the premise that the best way to get to know somebody is by playing with them. In this episode:
Gamily is available now in the US and Canada at gamilyapp.com, and on Instagram at @gamilyapp.
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- What Gamily is, who it is for, and the gap Kevin saw between apps for gay people, apps for straight people that merely allow gay people, and apps for nerds
- Why there is both a dating mode and a friends mode, and why they are kept completely separate
- Squeezing into a crowded dating app market, and why niche apps are having a moment
- What people are actually looking for when they want a partner who games, and why being able to pretend together as adults is rarer than it should be
- How the matching works, from the four games you are playing right now to unlimited favourites, board games and genres, with conversation starters built in
- The technical challenge of designing gender identity properly, so it is not just man seeking man or man seeking woman
- Why Gamily does not sell data, track users or run ads, and why that matters more when your users hold vulnerable identities
- Where the app is now, why New York City is the current focus, and what it would take to reach Australia
- Success stories so far, including a Valorant team and a queer streamer squad
- The feedback that genuinely surprised him, and what it says about what people will trade for free
- Why marketing turned out to be the hardest part, and the message that finally worked
Gamily is available now in the US and Canada at gamilyapp.com, and on Instagram at @gamilyapp.
Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fqC2FeHSUr
Support the BQN Network on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bqn
Support BBG directly on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/bargainbingaymers
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