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Tinder

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Tinder

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With 55 billion matches to date, Tinder® is the world’s most popular dating app, making it the place to meet new people. observed

stale · evidence 6d ago 10 sources no confidence data
/100
Developer momentum
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Funding
no round
Adoption
no signal
downloads / week
Developer
not scored
momentum / 100
Hiring
no board
eng openings

New infrastructure surfaces

Subdomains appearing in public certificate-transparency logs — infrastructure standing up, dated at detection. Intent labels are deterministic (token map), not guessed.

api.speeddate.tinder.com product surface 09-06 staging.tinder.com launch prep 09-06

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Opportunity & risk

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Community chatter Hacker News · Tier 3 · unverified manip. risk low · 0.2

Gray-market attention, not quality. 50+ HN mentions (peak 1030 points). Claim-shaped headlines are rumors until corroborated — a Tier-3 factual claim carries no evidentiary weight on its own. Risk drivers: heavy gray-market attention. ▲ 1030 Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right 2025-07-23 ↗

Raw observations 23 records
AttributeValueKindSourceObservedStateConf.
common_name Tinder observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 normalized 0.60
common_name Tinder observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-24 normalized 0.60
community.hn.max_points 1030 observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 normalized 0.20
community.hn.mentions 50 observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 normalized 0.20
community.hn.rumors [] observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 normalized 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44664873", "title": "Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right", "points": 1030, "created_at": "2025-07-23"} observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44664873", "title": "Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right", "points": 1030, "created_at": "2025-07-23"} observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-16 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44664873", "title": "Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right", "points": 1030, "created_at": "2025-07-23"} observed artifact ↗ 2025-07-23 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44664873", "title": "Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right", "points": 1030, "created_at": "2025-07-23"} observed artifact ↗ 2025-07-23 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44664873", "title": "Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right", "points": 1030, "created_at": "2025-07-23"} observed artifact ↗ 2025-07-23 normalized 0.20
description It became the number one grossing app on the iOS app store during Jeff's time there. observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 normalized 0.60
description With 55 billion matches to date, Tinder® is the world’s most popular dating app, making it the place to meet new people. observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-24 normalized 0.70
domain tinder.com observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-24 normalized 0.95
index.ai_tie NOT_AI observed classify 2026-07-25 derived 0.60
sector emerging derived calc 2026-08-08 normalized 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M087GX4YJ68K37S7MDG2FXQR", "signals": [{"quote": "And then you look at Tinder and they're a design-driven organization and they do design really well.", "stance": "bull observed artifact ↗ 2021-04-06 promoted 0.50
source.document.reference {"kind": "video", "title": "TWiST E2312 — startup trying to buy PayPal — tinder", "source_id": "01KXRP7ZSCHCTYH7G6A3HGTHFJ-m-ca5e8bb93106e248", "extract_ref": "artifact:sha256:2563df2435760ca767cda329 observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 normalized 0.95
source.document.reference {"kind": "video", "title": "#AskJason: Zirtual lessons, launch tips, VCs & copycats bad behavior, crowdfunding v. raising — tinder", "source_id": "01KXRSPVA8BHNMBZAD3AXT2XWY-m-ca5e8bb93106e248", "extr observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-26 normalized 0.95
source.document.reference {"kind": "video", "title": "Student loan debate, Zuck copies BeReal, Twitter whistleblower + Blueprint Part 7 | E1543 — tinder", "source_id": "01KXRSPG30CXE890M204K8SWFZ-m-ca5e8bb93106e248", "extract_ observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-11 normalized 0.95
source.document.reference {"kind": "video", "title": "Snack's Kim Kaplan PLUS 3 key metrics for consumer, enterprise SaaS & marketplace startups | E1195 — tinder", "source_id": "01KXRSPMM77D6XCNH3MMV3TFX6-m-ca5e8bb93106e248", observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-17 normalized 0.95
website_url https://tinder.com observed enrichment 2026-07-24 normalized 0.75
website_url https://tinder.com observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-24 normalized 0.95
website.homepage.has_pricing_link false observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-24 normalized 0.80