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I’m not gay and I don’t use any dating apps (though I’m not sure that’s even what Grindr is) but it strikes me as odd that it has no real competition. I mean sure there’s technically gay options on the straight dating apps, but Grindr is apparently very different, it’s much more location based and more for immediate hookups. It also charges a lot more, but is still incredibly popular Why hasn’t a real competitor emerged, Lyft to Uber, Rivian to Tesla, Alibaba to Amazon?
Salesforce workers when they wakeup
“Why on earth aren’t there more apps for gay sex?” 🤔
🤣
Exactly
What is a straight person supposed to say?
Youre living under the rock. Check sniffies.com ;)
That’s a really weird name
Risky click of the day
My guess is that the community is too small. All the other apps still allow same sex dating so it seems overkill to release a competitor to a product which is essentially marketed off a niche within the dating world.
Yes but the straight dating apps are bleeding money, Grindr is the only dating app that is seeing stock growth (though maybe that’s just because it’s a new IPO) Regardless, it’s a different product and it’s flaws, it charges for everything. A budget gay dating app would likely do numbers
Match group just launched one call Archer
All dating apps have the option for lgbt. Grindr is the only one really solely lgbt. (Also I learned there’s a dating app for people with HIV - man there’s an app for everyone!)
Yup, same fir single parents, for black people, Asian Latinos etc, but for some reason people like a dedicated app 🤷♂️
I think it’s a concept that there are more people from their group on the dedicated app. (Also I noticed you can’t filter in tinder anymore on the free version… what’s up with that match?)
Grindr is the OG.
Grindr is a hookup app. There’s plenty of competitors Scruff Sniffies.com Recon Growlr To name a few.
Had to scroll this far down to see this. OP is living under a rock.
These are still startups though, right? Seems like with proper management one of them could IPO and make bank
There’s a real network effect- the more people who use grindr, the more useful it becomes and any competitor would need to build a larger unique audience not on grindr to cause anyone to switch.
Business time…