GUESTOFGUEST – Apr 25 – Dating app Hinge, which matches potential couples through mutual facebook friends, has surpassed 10K users and is now available on Android.
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Hinge Helps Users Date Friends Of Facebook Friends
WASHINGTON POST – Feb 14 – Justin McLeod recently started a D.C.-based mobile dating app called Hinge, which lets users rank and connect with their friends’ Facebook friends. Every day at noon, Hinge users who sign up using their Facebook accounts receive a batch of 25 profiles of potential matches collected from a pool of their friends’ friends. Users rank the profiles on a scale from 1 to 5. If two people rank each other at 4 or 5, Hinge sends a “match” introduction to both. Hinge’s algorithm weeds out users who are listed on Facebook as married or in a relationship, who aren’t local, and who are out of users’ desired age range. Since its launch last week, Hinge’s app has been installed a couple thousand times. The app has already produced ~600 matches.
Hinge.co: New Facebook Dating App
WASHINGTON POST – Jan 18 – Hinge.co launched this summer as the love child of Facebook and Friend-setups. Justin McLeod, CEO came up with the idea after eyeing a cute girl in one of his Harvard Business School classes and later finding that they had a dozen Facebook friends in common. Together with Bennett Richardson, CMO, and Matt O'Donnell, CTO, Hinge was born. Facebook users sign up for the Hinge game and by answering a series of questions such as "Who throws the best parties?. The game develops a list of compatible friends of friends.
Hinge Social Dating Facebook App Launches
WASHINGTON POST – July 13 – The Hinge application uses Facebook friends-of-friends as a source of potential dates through a game-like interface. The service is live in the Washington D.C. Area using a freemium model with a $7 per month premium subscription. According to Mark Brooks, Editor of Online Personals Watch, “No one has gotten this right. The privacy concerns are incredible.” But, he adds, “it’s one of the last big opportunities in the online dating space, for sure.”