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The "both people have to like" feature was on Hot-or-Not close to 15 years ago, Tinder didn't create it.
by dx87 7y ago
The "both people have to like" feature was on Hot-or-Not close to 15 years ago, Tinder didn't create it.
- dvtrn 7y agoHot or Not had a matching feature? I legitimately never knew this. Then again I only spent enough time on the site to grok “ok this exists” and never going back.
- stagger87 7y agoThe parent did not say that Tinder created this, only patented it.
- Reelin 7y agoPrior art (ie publicly published examples) invalidates patents, at least in the western world. To that end, if you invent something that you don't intend to patent you should publicly write about it if possible.
- stagger87 7y agoYou can always review the claims of the Tinder patent. I suspect the application of the "both people have to like" concept is applied differently. https://patents.google.com/patent/US9733811 https://patents.google.com/patent/US9733811
- sib 7y agoThe parent literally called it "Tinder’s big innovation"...