Did you ever think to yourself, “Online dating is great, but I wish it was more like Chatroulette!”? Probably not! After all, if you’re swiping in bed or on the toilet, you might not want your potential paramours to be able to video chat.

But the new D.C.-based app Spottle makes the case for the feature.

“It’s so easy to craft a clever bio or use your friends to come up with clever responses [on most dating apps]. Then you actually sit face to face with someone and realize there’s no chemistry,” says Spottle co-founder and CEO Max Rosenberg. “We wanted a way to be able to do that—get that first interaction—but make it fast, easy, and fun.”

To participate, Spottle users need to sign on at 9 p.m. on Thursdays or Saturdays for a virtual game of “Spin the Bottle.” That’ll set up two people for a 30-second video chat. If they’re feeling the vibes, they land a digital smooch on one another, meaning they “match.”  (“You’ve been kissed!” Spottle will alert users, in a message laden with pink lips.) From there, they can message, see one another’s bios, and video chat or call within the app. “If there’s no chemistry, then you spin again,” says Rosenberg, who has been in D.C. for five years. “You’re not stuck with them for an hour.”

When he was single, Rosenberg was on all the apps, he says, though he had much better luck meeting love interests out at the bar. “I went out all the time, four to five nights a week,” he says. “It was exhausting and expensive.” Rosenberg used to live and go out on 14th Street. “When I was a little younger, I was going to Hawthorne, Lost Society,” he says. “I feel like I’m a little too old for them now.”

These days he has a girlfriend that he met, thanks to his competitors. “We matched on two apps but because the apps are kind of fickle, we didn’t meet up for another five months,” he says. “We’re lucky it worked out, but we could have easily never met. We’re trying to make apps better than that.”

The Spin the Bottle game is only active twice a week: Thursdays and Saturdays from 9 p.m.-9:15 p.m. They chose those times for video chatting, Rosenberg says, because those are times when people are likely to be looking good and getting ready to hit the town. Once you match, you can chat at any time (even from the toilet!).

The app, available for download starting this week, is available for people of any sexual orientation, though he acknowledges that the pool for same-sex matches will likely be smaller on Spottle. Still, he says that “because we’re only open for two 15-minute blocks per week, you can only see about 30 people at a time,” which makes the threshold smaller. On apps that involve swiping, users could see 30 potential matches in a minute if their fingers were fast enough.

For anyone who’s ever spent five minutes on Chatroulette, though, there’s one thing that constantly appears: penises. Rosenberg says Spottle has facial recognition, so “if there’s no face on the screen, then the screen is fully blurred out. Even if you take away your face for a second, it’ll blur.” But if, somehow, the genitalia evades the facial recognition, he says Spottle has a reporting tool, and “anyone who gets reported for something like that will be banned immediately.”

Aside from those concerns, he says one reaction he hears is: “Wow, this is kind of scary to actually have your face on the screen.” Rosenberg acknowledges that, compared to apps that allow people to swipe quickly through potential matches, “the threshold for people to use [Spottle] is a little higher, but the threshold to meet someone and have a real interaction is lower than on a real date.”