https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/04/tinder-begins-testing-its-...
This is truly horrible. These kinds of looping gifs have all the appeal of watching 4-year-old pick her nose.
Is anyone doing “Tinder, but with video”? Why not?
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Re: Is anyone doing “Tinder, but with video”? Why not?
#22Thanks everyone - good feedback.
Re: Is anyone doing “Tinder, but with video”? Why not?
#23That's literally how "YouTube" was born. Registered on Valentine's Day as a way to share interesting videos of yourself to find dates.
Re: Is anyone doing “Tinder, but with video”? Why not?
#24I don't think most people would do this. They're likely too shy and/or don't want to put the effort in. In my city, about 25% of profiles are blank on Tinder. Tinder has gifs now, and you can connect your Instagram to most apps. The functionality exists and isn't used much. Even IG is still mostly photos.
I don't think most people would do this.
Sounds like a good filter then.
Re: Is anyone doing “Tinder, but with video”? Why not?
#25Dating apps are only valuable based off their user base. The coding is not the hard part. The app is not the hard part. Well over 90% of the difficulty of dating apps is successfully marketing them.
Yep and the fact that it's a terrible crowded market. If you told me you had 1M users and were growing 10% monthly I'd personally still probably be very reluctant to invest.
Re: Is anyone doing “Tinder, but with video”? Why not?
#26Adding video is pretty trivial from an effort standpoint, so this probably falls under a class of startups where the differentiation is not enough to justify a standalone service. Video costs are higher and probably no additional revenue, so Tinder isn't doing it on thier own. If you put a bunch of energy into such a product and it looked like it would take off... bam... Tinder now has videos and you're dead.
>...If you put a bunch of energy into such a product and it looked like it would take off... bam... Tinder now has videos and you're dead. Or he could be sufficiently irritating that he is approached for acquisition. There are segments of the consumer base out there he could go after and use cases we probably are not considering. Tinder is global and in my country, it has a (bad) reputation as hookup app i.e sex-for-…
Match group corp dev will buy essentially anything over 15k mau so the acquisition angle isn't wrong