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Bryan Haggerty and his partner Jeannie Choe call themselves “Romantech” because they’re geeks at heart. So it only made sense for him to propose to her this week with an iPhone app, which he designed by himself.

The technological Casanova on Wednesday asked the big question, only after putting his girlfriend through a video scavenger hunt of sorts guided by his iPhone app.

“I thought about all the typical kinds of ways, and they all kind of just weren’t working for me,” Haggerty said. “I said, ‘That’s not really how I would do it.’ So I came up with the idea.”

Haggerty designed the web app, befittingly titled Romantech, to display a map containing location points throughout San Francisco. Each point was accompanied by a video of Haggerty giving clues on where to go next.

Eventually the two met at Dolores Park, where all the dots connected to form the shape of a <3 symbol. There, Haggerty sat on top of a hill, greeting her upon her arrival. And he proposed.

“I kind of had a feeling,” Choe said. “When I first saw the app I knew what was going to happen.”

The caret-heart symbol harbors a lot of sentimental value for the tech savvy couple. When the two first starting dating two and a half years ago, Haggerty gave Choe a necklace containing <3.