Or A Tinder Copycat, Is Climbing the App Charts [Update]

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I've reached out to Or Not Limited to ask about the similarities between the apps and Hot or Not's sudden growth and will update the post if I hear back. And while old-guard dating sites like Match and OkCupid offer their own dating apps, new dating and hook-up apps are blossoming all the time. Earlier this year, Hinge, which harvests your Facebook info to create a dating profile,.

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Or A Tinder Copycat, Is Climbing the App Charts [Update]

The original Hot or Not, which launched in 2000, was the precursor to today's ratings apps—a website that let strangers judge pulchritude by profile pic alone. It's so old, Mark Zuckerberg to get Facebook rolling. So how did the get to no. With the help of good old fashioned email spam. According to its and , the new Hot or Not was released by Or Not Limited. The company boasts a London office in the heart of Soho and has been as a bonus with their job offer, even if they turn down the job. But let's get back to the ranking for a minute. Hot or Not's sudden iOS success puts it ahead of Facebook no. Tinder is all the way down at no. That's problematic because when you look at their interfaces side-by-side they're pretty much alike. Both apps also take advantage of Facebook to log-in and automatically populate your profile with photos. On tinder the X is on the left. On hot or not the X is on the right. Makin me X all kinds of cuties and heart the whales. What's stranger is that it's working so quickly—and the shadowy company behind it. Although there have been spikes before, it's been clinging tight to the top since before December. We have one theory as to how they did it: spam. Since at least September, our tips valleywag. The most interesting part, however, is in the fine print. Because Badoo has been repeatedly accused of pulling this kind of in the past. It's the same beast as that spam from a decade back. Of course, there's no mention of Badoo on the of Hot or Not's website. No, that fresh new company smell is a commodity in the current startup economy. So instead, if you visit the recruiting link for developers to win , Hot or Not boasts about its cool office space, nevermind the copycat features or sketchy spam. Sam Yagan, the CEO of Match. I've reached out to Or Not Limited to ask about the similarities between the apps and Hot or Not's sudden growth and will update the post if I hear back. Correction: The headline for this post originally stated that Hot or Not was using spam. It has been corrected in the headline and in the post. We apologize for the error. Update: Over the weekend, Valleywag received a response from Hot or Not through Michelle Kennedy, who has been working as director of legal and business affairs for Badoo from 2011 until the present,. The emails sent to this account weren't unsolicited-they were emails sent to a registered user of the Hot or Not service. However, after demand from Hot or Not users for the service to return to it's original format, the decision was made for Hot or Not to be hived off from Badoo, and a group of creative minds decided to develop Hot or Not for 2014. We decided to hive-off Hot or Not as I mentioned, in response to user demand for the return of the old product, following the white label in the last quarter of last year Regarding the similarities between Tinder and Hot or Not's newly relaunched mobile app, Kennedy said: As you mention in your article, Hot or Not has been doing its thing forever. It even inspired FB. In fact, you probably have seen, most articles refer to Tinder as a version of Hot or Not, so I think the question should probably be the other way? However, as you can see from even as far back as December, 2012, , a very janky retro feel. The mobile app looks much more like Tinder, which launched in September 2012.

We are reaching out to both companies to try to figure out what is u on and will update as we learn more. Hot or Not's sudden iOS success puts it ahead of Facebook no. Within a week of launching, it had reached almost two million page views per day. Created in 2000 by two engineering students fresh out of U. We have one met as to how they did it: spam. Update: This is very much a scale play for both Badoo and Hot or Not. Retrieved 9 March 2013. There are pictures of people, minimalist profiles, and of course mobile sorts of messaging. Tinder is all the way down at no. Between, after demand from Hot or Not users for the service to return to it's original format, the decision was made for Hot or Not to be hived off from Badoo, and a group of creative minds decided to develop Hot or Not for 2014. The matchmaking service has been especially u and the site continues to generate most of its revenue through subscriptions. Correction: The headline for this post originally stated that Hot or Not was using spam.