This is a huge problem! I met my current girlfriend on Tinder, but it's such a gamble, you never know. I went on 6-7 bad dates (and talked to far more people) before I met her. If you are serious about meeting someone who is real and who you might have a connection with, many of the current solutions feel pretty shallow.
I might not be a user, but I love what you guys are doing. Keep it up.
@jpmcleod@mrlevy As someone who is driven by making amazing real world connection and working on a startup focused on facilitating more of them, but with finding a place to stay being the "why" (more than one person who's played w/ Horizon has described it as a "hinge approach to couchsurfing/airbnb") -- I love the new product. It is indeed a bold bet, but a great one imho. As a user of many dating apps over the past few years, the core swiping experience absolutely has become tiresome. My biggest frustration with most apps is the signal to noise (or noise to signal) problem. The key is delivering relevant potential matches...and I think your new revenue model will help with that significantly. You've put just enough friction in it to make people evaluate people on more than looks, but not so burdensome to be annoying.
@drewmeyers Thanks so much Drew!
We spent a long time thinking about that signal and noise problem and realized that a lot of them problem with swiping was not how easy it was to say 'no' but in fact how it was way to easy to say 'yes.' The result is a lot of 'matches' that go nowhere because you don't have a strong signal of intent.
We hope the new interface solves for that as writing a comment about someone's picture is strong intent, but not overwhelmingly difficult to do.
Let us know how your experience goes and best of luck with Horizon!
I really like this change in direction and I'm excited to see where Hinge goes from here. However, in just trying the new app, the inability to easily re-arrange the order of profile pictures is annoying. =X
@alexcartaz Oy we are well aware, sorry about that. That was one of the last 'nice to have' features to miss the cut. Wasn't worth missing release deadline for, but we were bummed it was missing. It'll be available in one of the next couple releases (makes for a nice pair with camera roll).
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