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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
No person- or entity-level identity check is on record for this company. A name match is not one.
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we have some meaningful interest
you must have massive massive interest from investors now it's very rare that a product takes off this fast
we increased their Viewership by 30% from the previous year and and that that was like directly correlated to Tinder because we their their season there was a 30% increase from their season opening to the next episode when in and in between that we had the Tinder campaign
we're we're we're focused on that and we heard about virtual goods from Dave is virtual goods and being a premium member something that would work in Tinder enhanced profile whatever you know we're not we're not there being in the space that we're in there's a variety of ways we could we could monetize um people are definitely I like to think when it when the value proposition is introducing you to somebody new that you could create a relationship with that people are willing to pay for that uh
I think I actually think that that social validation is a more stronger uh uh uh area of identity than actually you know you know physical Identity or or or credit card credit card or whatever I think I think if we could do more uh like Facebook has to um understand sort of your graph and understand your behavior within Tinder and the different touch points that you have there's all these signals that we can collect and sort of come back and decide you know not only how valuable you are to certa
the the the fascinating thing is there's all these unique use cases that people are creating for Tinder um and you know partially were we uh you know we have the singular Focus but there's all these little byproducts that we're closely watching uh out of curiosity to see if one of them might make sense for a broader feature that we might create uh but there's all these you know interesting use cases friendship business connections local businesses trying to connect with their customers
there's a lot of businesses local businesses that are creating Tinder profiles trying toch yeah they're trying to match with people in order to which that's actually something we haven't killed because I'm actually curious to see where that goes so I'm a local bar this is my uh host or Hostess and they're saying yes to everybody saying hey meet me at this bar yeah I happen to be the host or the bottle service person or it's the business or it's the manager trying to connect with people in the ar
oh there a lot of spam bots in the system yeah we're we're getting hit really hard by spam um but but luckily we got a great team that's that's responding
safer I think nothing is fully safe of course the world is not safe The World Is Not Safe Tinder is safer for a variety of reasons one uh we allow you to to only talk to the people that you have an interest in uh so you could sort of filter through the audience and you're not as exposed like I like I mentioned at the beginning of this conversation so if you're only saying I like one out of 25 people yeah you're limiting your exposure You' have to pick the psychotic crazy killer exactly or you co
we break our entire experience into pre-match and postmatch... helping you categorize organize and make more sense out of you know your history of matches over time
we get a very few number of requests related to safety... the requests that we do get have less to do with Tinder and more to do with the circumstances
we're launching a whole new experience... visual experience is really going to evolve
we're growing internationally at a pretty surprising rate actually it's all organic
scalability has been our primary focus right now
in New York City... 620,000 profile ratings in one hour, 18,000 matches, 50,000 messages... 20,000 requests hitting the server every second
we have 200 million matches... growing at 20 million a week
Android is about one-third of new signups... trending to be about 50/50
day one that we launched it our organic registrations went up by like 70% every day
we've had 20 billion ratings in that time and that's growing at an exponential rate... now we're doing 1 billion a week
the social graph is a powerful tool to help you discover new people
we let you go as deep as a mile right yeah as close as a mile
the predominant result of these matches is dating or romance but what we found is there's a lot of people who are moving to cities and then using Tinder to meet friends right or just make friends in that City or um there's constant emails that we get uh uh about people telling us that they've created business relationships on Tinder
it's giving control back to both the pursuer and the person who's being pursued and saying you're not going to feel like you're putting yourself out there and and as as somebody's being pursued you don't need to feel overwhelmed
we're taking the people around you and we're prioritizing them based on their relevance to you
it'll be a joke on uh Conan O'Brien this year
it gives control to both sides of the equation makes everyone feel comfortable and it has a really unique behavioral hook
it starts every relationship at sort of a heighten level
what Tinder does uh is where our goal is to overcome some of those barriers those physical and social barriers to you you meeting new people
this is just two of the most um important social companies right now
two of the hottest absolute lightning uh in a Bottle apps currently on the market of course Tinder
Tinder is is a little bit more casual, Match is a little bit less casual. And so, uh And OkCupid is in between. ... And so, Tinder, those curves move even further apart.
I think honestly Tinder has really been um has has kind of knocked down or destroyed that last bit of stigma around meeting someone through a device or through a computer. ... and that that kind of eliminated it, I think, permanently. ... And I think it's a great uh service. Um and I think it's just it's introducing people to I mean, to get busy, it's just kind of growing the segment, you know? So, it's been very good for us.
Tinder came out uh and they actually iterated and they made some very smart decisions right they the mutual match uh the Facebook import uh some other key aspects of it that we you know for us for men don't really matter but for the comfort of women uh that Facebook import is so important right uh gay guys we don't care as much so they they they evolved on the concept uh and I think made it made it acceptable and comfortable for women
the most important thing in tinder who knows but it might be that actual matches and people starting a conversation in tender are more important
And then you look at Tinder and they're a design-driven organization and they do design really well.
| Attribute | Value | Kind | Source | Observed | State | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.max_points | 0 | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-10-08 | normalized | 0.20 |
community.hn.mentions | 50 | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-07-18 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.mentions | 0 | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-10-08 | 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 | 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 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.top_story | {} | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-10-08 | 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 |
platform.index_excluded | true | derived | calc | 2026-09-28 | normalized | 0.99 |
sector | emerging | derived | calc | 2026-08-08 | normalized | 0.50 |
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signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2XBABQ277YEK154EX7RNE20", "signals": [{"quote": "what Tinder does uh is where our goal is to overcome some of those barriers those physical and social barriers to you | observed | artifact ↗ | 2013-10-18 | promoted | 0.50 |
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signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2XBABQ277YEK154EX7RNE20", "signals": [{"quote": "you must have massive massive interest from investors now it's very rare that a product takes off this fast", "stance" | observed | artifact ↗ | 2013-10-18 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2XBABQ277YEK154EX7RNE20", "signals": [{"quote": "we have some meaningful interest", "stance": "bullish", "confidence": 0.9, "signal_class": "assessment", "speaker_name | observed | artifact ↗ | 2013-10-18 | promoted | 0.50 |
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