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The most amazing part of this acquisition was discovering there's a gay dating app called "blue" that I bet most americans, even those in the space, have never
by kristopolous 7y ago
The most amazing part of this acquisition was discovering there's a gay dating app called "blue" that I bet most americans, even those in the space, have never heard of with 10 times the traffic of grindr.
And grindr isn't obscure or known only among gays, I've heard it joked about on late night television and light-hearted NPR shows. It's part of the zietgiest whether you're in the target demo or not.
I guess the domain space is inherently regional since it's about meeting locals but I'm still continually amazed at how unknown some of the largest players are outside their market.
It's like the regional scooter/rideshare/delivery competitors. I listen to UK podcasts and they act like everyone on the planet has heard of and constantly uses a company named "Deliveroo", which I, even in the startup world had only maybe tangentially heard of, but not in any significant way. It serves in 14 countries and has 13,000 employees and 20,000 deliverers.
- calf 7y agoI have Blued, but I barely use it as loading pics and messages on it is so sluggish. There's literally a spinning cursor that comes up for actions that should be quite trivial for the user.
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- novok 7y agoThe servers are probably only in the great firewall, so any outside of china connection will be make horrible on purpose by the chinese government.
- this_user 7y agoBloomberg's 'Decrypted' podcast had an episode [0] about the company and founder behind Blue. They are also getting into the business of surrogacy abroad for gay Chinese couples. The interesting thing is that the company have managed to frame what they are doing as a business matter first and foremost. This is helping them avoid pressure from the government that are usually hostile towards LGBT causes. [0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2019-04-15/the-app-that-s-helping-gay-couples-have-kids-in-china-podcast https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2019-04-15/the-app-that...