Grindr, the significantly successful, male-only location-based hookup facilitator for homosexual, bisexual and gay-curious men, supplies authorized 2 million people in 2 many years. Today, the inventor of Grindr has actually actually developed a fresh app Blendr that replicates Grindr's template, with one crucial twist: allows woman to become listed on right up, and.

Grindr president and President Joel Simkhai promises that Blendr, which based through the iphone 3gs and myspace on Sep 8, is not about hookups, but friendships.

a€?we've viewed social media and believed it wasn't most social,a€? Simkhai claimed in employment interview. a€?With Blendr, we are getting a€?social' into social network. Your show up at fb and you can share goods, you simply cannot really meet new people. With Blendr there will be no much better way to write more recent providers.a€?

Absolutely cause to be skeptical of Simkhai's stated reason, considering that Grindr, which claims to become a€?quick, convenient, and discerning,a€? are far more dating site than social network. But Simkhai shows that Blendr and Grindr don't have plenty of in common pertaining to objective or need: Blendr likes a€?evolved from Grindr, they are cousins,a€? in accordance with him.

a€?Grindr concerns one interest, and that is acquiring gay,a€? Simkhai stated. a€?That's singular some interest. [For Blendr] we have brought in a huge selection of passions . That will be a friendship program, it is a gathering software. This could be for the 60-year-old man who wishes to execute poker and would like to get a hold of guys or women of any age-group which would also like playing online web based poker around him.a€?

Despite Simkhai's reported aspirations for the application, i must genuinely believe that Blendr helps to keep often are available set-up as, or will residing or expire because of the accomplishments as, a heterosexual hookup software.