Finding love in the District isn't easy - especially as a black woman. We hear from our friend Shana, who's so sick and tired of the D.C. dating scene that she's moving to Denver. Plus: Someone's sliding into Anna's DMs.بقلم Under the Beltway hosts

"You up?" is now more than just the text you send to your late-night booty call - it's also a new dating app. Under the Beltway talks with the developers of YouUp?, and asks them why their new "casual dating" app only works from 9 PM - 6 AM, what "power swiping" means, and how their moms feel about it all. ​Plus: Why Reena got kicked off Tinder. ​…

Blogger Jesse Peterson, aka “Tinder District,” went on a blind date last year, courtesy of the Washington Post’s Date Lab. The not-so-forgiving headline: “He called the bars she frequents ‘college-y.’”We talked to Jesse about how Date Lab works, how her friends crashed her blind date, and how she became the talk of the town on an alt-right message …

Got dating advice? We do! Well, actually, scratch that: Erika Ettin does. Before the advent of Tinder, Ettin, a long-time finance consultant, decided to go rogue and start her own consulting business -- but of the online dating variety. So in 2011, she launched her D.C.-based company A Little Nudge armed with a few spreadsheets and a heaping of per…