13 Feb Grindr Creator Launches Blendr: Might Women Require The Random Hookup Software?
Now, the originator of Grindr have established a program Blendr that replicates Grindr’s template, with one crucial present: enables lady to join up, furthermore.
Grindr creator and President Joel Simkhai states that Blendr, which established in the new new iphone and fb on Sep 8, is certainly not about hookups, but friendships.
a€?We have now seen myspace and facebook and considered it absolutely wasn’t extremely private,a€? Simkhai stated in an interview. a€?With Blendr, we’re placing a€?social’ into social media marketing. You look at myspace and you will speak circumstances, nevertheless are not able to really fulfill new people. With Blendr there won’t be any better way in order to make brand-new company.a€?
There is certainly reason to be questionable of Simkhai’s reported goal, considering that Grindr, which claims as a€?quick, convenient, and discerning,a€? was more dating site than myspace and facebook. But Simkhai says that Blendr and Grindr don’t possess lots of in keeping regarding aim or function: Blendr enjoys a€?evolved from Grindr, they’re cousins,a€? he says.
Grindr looks using its profits that an adequate portion of homosexual guys take pleasure in coming along via realtime smartphone speak; Blendr, if it is to reside whenever the general, should win over a similar portion of heterosexuals to smartphone-flirt
a€?Grindr is targeted on one interest, and that’s becoming homosexual,a€?