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dkulchenko | 5 years ago

Agreed. Why is there no Tinder/online dating equivalent for making new friends locally?

Instead of dating-specific qualifiers, it'd ask for your interests, hobbies, values, age and other demos, then match you based on overlap.

Not Meetup - it's not quite solving the same problem, and so it solves things differently (focusing on shared interests and on discrete meetup events).

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dpeck|5 years ago

Because every time someone builds this it turns into a dating (charitably) app. If there is a way to find sexual partners in a medium, people will do so.

tomjen3|5 years ago

Now I wonder how many people have hooked up via HN.

albntomat0|5 years ago

Bumble has both a friends and business section.

I've never used either, but I feel it likely suffers from "The problem with Tinder is that everyone on it thinks Tinder is a good idea" issue.

godtoldmetodoit|5 years ago

My wife met one of her best friends on Bumble BFF - it's the dating app but for friends.

kirso|5 years ago

I believe lunchclub.ai is solving for it (raised from a16z) - very tech focused though.

yoyonamite|5 years ago

I think there are enough ways to make friends and meet people that a general friend-making app just isn't a big enough need on its own.