Love Bug (The Prescotts Book 3) by Tara Wyatt (electric book reader .TXT) 📗

beta test will be joining us via Zoom in about five minutes and I’ll walk them through the functionality of the app, the test parameters, reporting bugs, everything.”

“Sounds like you’ve got it all handled. I admire the way you took this project on and ran with it,” he said, and every head in the room swiveled in his direction. Okay, so he didn’t exactly hand out compliments on the regular. He knew that he had a reputation around the office for being grumpy and short and demanding, and he got away with it because it was his damn company.

Willa blushed, a pretty pink spreading from her cheeks and up into her hairline. It was very similar to the way she flushed when she came, and just the recollection of it had blood rushing to his cock. Fuck.

“Thank you, I appreciate that,” she said, a hint of wariness in her voice, and he knew she was wondering if he’d paid her the compliment because of her work or because they’d slept together and he was trying to smooth over the awkwardness between them.

“I mean it. You’ve done excellent work bringing this from conception to beta in less than a year.”

She stared at him for a second and then nodded. “I’d better get ready.”

She sat down in front of the laptop at the front of the room, spreading notes out to the side that Max was confident she wouldn’t need. The few other employees sat down around the table, off camera. This was Willa’s show this morning, one he was happy to let her run. She’d worked hard on this project. While the original idea had been his—it had come to him after a conversation with his younger brother Theo last year—he didn’t have time to run projects and write code like he used to now that Tapp had grown into a multi-million dollar tech company. Willa had shown interest and enthusiasm in the project from the start, so he’d been happy to pass it off to her. Although he had to admit, he missed tinkering and playing. His days were spent on big picture strategy, courting investors, marketing and development, networking, and supporting project leaders like Willa.

“Hi everyone,” she said from the front of the room, smiling widely, her gorgeous hazel eyes flashing. “Thanks so much for joining us this morning. We’re very excited that Tapp’s first ever dating app, Blind Date, is ready to enter the beta test phase. Thank you to all of you who volunteered to help us complete this final phase of testing before we take it to market, hopefully before the end of this year. You should’ve all received a link to download the app—if you didn’t, please email blind date support at tapp dot com and we’ll get you set up. Once you’ve downloaded the app, you’ll be prompted to log in with the username and password you were assigned. The usernames are generic—BetaTestAccount1, BetaTestAccount2 and so on—but you’re able to change it if you click on the gear symbol in the top right corner. We’ve had issues with updated usernames not saving, so if this happens to you, please report it. In the bottom right hand corner, you’ll see a symbol that looks like a little beetle. Click that to report any bugs you find—the reporting module will walk you through how to do that.”

She took a breath, smiled and then clasped her hands together. “So, first things first, let’s walk through the app. Blind Date is unique in that there are no photos allowed. The purpose of the app is to connect with someone without superficial judgement. This is the opposite of Tinder, where you see a photo, make a snap judgement and swipe left or right without knowing a single thing about the person. Blind Date encourages connection and in-depth communication.

“When you first activate your profile, you’ll be prompted to fill in a few details: your age, your location, the age range you’re interested in, geographical limitations, sexuality, and gender preferences. This is an area where we’re striving to be as inclusive as possible, so if you see something missing, please fill out a bug report. Then you’ll take a detailed personality questionnaire carefully designed by a team of relationship therapists and psychologists. For the best results, fill it out as honestly as possible. Your answers are private and won’t be shared with others or mined for data. It shouldn’t take you longer than thirty minutes to fill out the questionnaire. We’ve had some issues with questions not loading, so please report this bug if it happens to you. I think we have it worked out on iOS, but there were still some small issues on Android, especially devices running older versions.

“Once you take your personality questionnaire, sit back and wait for your matches. As more people complete the questionnaire, you’ll get more. Your matches are people with whom you have the best compatibility based on your personality profile and your set preferences. You’ll be shown anyone with whom you have at least seventy percent compatibility, and you’ll have the ability to message any of your matches.

“Now, I know what you’re thinking—wouldn’t it be easy for people to get matched and then just send pictures? We thought of that too, which is why the chat is specially designed and encrypted to only allow for text. No images, no GIFs, no media of any kind. At the start, you can’t even use numbers in the chat. I mean, if you want to exchange phone numbers by typing it all out so that you can then send pictures to each other, you can. But we’re hoping that the people using this app will be drawn to it for its unique focus on communication and connection.

“Once you start chatting with someone, your connection meter will grow, depending on the frequency and number of messages you exchange. You’ll see the heart icon beside the person’s username change from a light pink to a dark red. The