To share briefly our journey, we started by launching this simple website: https://lonelyworld.info as a mini MVP. Then we got a tremendous response from various forums including Hacker News and Reddit, that we decided to pursue this idea further and develop into an app. Our team is me, my wife, and a friend from South Africa that I met on the LonelyWorld website! I realize that had I never launched that mini MVP, I wouldn't have met my friend to work on my mission together! The mantra is right: one should always build in public :)