Mystery is not an app that finds you a date. It’s for people who already have a date and want to know what the hell to do together. Co-founders Vince Coppola and Shane Kovalsky had noticed that everyone around them had sort of given up. Not in general, but with leisure time. The same old story of being tired and opting for Netflix instead of going out into the city and trying something.
“I just think the best part of life is experiencing things and being able to get out there and do something new,” Kovalsky told me. “And the problem is, it takes a lot of planning, and planning is like homework.”
Mystery officially launches on Valentine’s Day, but my boyfriend, Harry, and I tried it when it was in beta. Right now, Mystery is just a website (trymystery.com), but the app launches in March. On the website, we entered our information, our preferences, and our budget—and then we left our Saturday night up to chance. All we knew was that the attire was casual and that a Lyft would pick us up at 6:30 p.m.
