Cherry

Cherry

2024 - 2026

“Find teammates for your next web3 hackathon.”

Cherry is closed. This page is what remains - the numbers, the tour, the lessons, and the person who built it.

578builders
21events
3continents
1,473likes sent
88matches
708messages

The story

Cherry was born in September 2024, hacked together over a weekend at ETHWarsaw. The idea was simple: hackathon teams form in the worst possible way - a message into a 600-person Telegram group at 9am on day one. Cherry let builders see who was actually in the room: what they could do, what they were building, and who they were looking for.

Over fourteen months it travelled to 21 events on three continents - hackathons in Warsaw, Rome, Dublin, Belgrade, Bucharest and Buenos Aires, pop-up cities in Chiang Mai and Patagonia, online buildathons in between. 578 builders made profiles. They sent 1,473 likes and 1,022 icebreakers, matched 88 times, and exchanged 708 messages.

Every spike in the chart below is a hackathon weekend. That was the lesson: events pour people in, but a network needs a reason to come back on Monday, and Cherry never found one. It never charged a cent and never raised. In June 2026 it closed the way it ran - cleanly. Every profile, photo, match and message was deleted.

The vital signs

Cherry's weekly KPI chart, March 2025 to April 2026: cumulative users climbing to ~500; likes, matches and messages spiking at each event, tallest at Aleph Buenos Aires in August 2025, flat from December on.
The final reading of the live KPI dashboard, taken 10 June 2026 - the day the database was deleted. Green is cumulative users; blue, purple and orange are weekly likes, matches and messages. The tall spike is Aleph, Buenos Aires, August 2025. The flatline is honesty.

How matching went

Pairs shown4,300
Likes sent1,473
Mutual matches88
Conversations213

708 messages over 213 conversations - 3.3 each. Getting people to match is easy. Giving the conversation a job to do is the hard part.

The tour

2024

  • ETHWarsawWarsawwhere Cherry was born
  • Edge City LannaChiang Mai

2025

  • Aleph MarchBuenos Aires37 builders
  • ETHBucharestBucharest
  • ETHWarsaw Spring HackWarsaw
  • ETHDublinDublin27 builders
  • ETHBelgradeBelgrade
  • Mantle Cook #1-4online
  • Celo Ship #6-8online
  • Urbe VillageRome27 builders
  • Aleph AugustBuenos Aires133 builders - the spike in the chart
  • ETHWarsawWarsaw52 builders
  • ETHRomeRome48 builders
  • Octant DeFi Hackathononline34 builders
  • Edge City PatagoniaPatagonia
  • Edge Vibe Buildathononline43 builders
  • ETHGlobal Buenos AiresBuenos Airesthe last one

The ledger

  • 10 June 2026 - every profile, photo, match and message permanently deleted. No copies kept; only the anonymous totals on this page survive.
  • Summer 2026 - Cherry Builders Limited dissolved. The code went home with its author.
  • Always - free for every builder who used it. No tokens were harmed in the making of this product.

One profile left

The matching pool is empty now. Almost.

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