SF News Meet SOON: The SF-Only Dating App Startup That Wants You to Meet Your Matches In Person ASAP The app, with 6,000 users in the past four months, has pictures and prompts like other dating apps — but the first messages after matching are invites to meet in-person.
Business & Tech SF-Based Dating App Adds Vaccination Status to Profiles An all-important criterion for singles on the prowl in the coming months will likely be whether or not a prospective mate has been vaccinated against COVID-19. And one San Francisco-based dating app has already added vaccination status as a profile item.
Business & Tech Bumble Deleted Sharon Stone's Profile Because They Thought It Was Fake Bumble, the dating app that lets women make the first move in hetero pairings, just made a gaffe when it deleted sometime Bay Area resident Sharon Stone's dating profile, believe it was a fake. It was not!
Arts & Entertainment Secret Members-Only Tinder 'Select' Is Just Tinder For Hotter, Richer, Shallower People Just when you thought Tinder could be no shallower, TechCrunch breaks it to you that within the dating app is a secret members-only version "for celebrities and people who do really well on
Arts & Entertainment Eff-ing In SF, Vol. 11: Meet 'Bubby', A Dating App For Nice Jewish Boys, Girls, And Goys, Too Sex, love, and other mysteries in the city your mother warned you about. Most actual Bubbes, or Jewish grandmothers, prefer to do their well-meaning nagging and cajoling in person or over the phone.
Arts & Entertainment Consulting With Trans Activists, Tinder Opens Up Nearly 40 Gender Options For Users Well what do you know! Tinder's CEO Sean Rad, who famously did not know what the word sodomy referred to, isn't a total idiot! In fact, he and his company have made a
SF News Eff-ing In SF, Vol. 10: Hinge Is Going To Charge For Membership, How Will You Swipe? Sex, love, and other mysteries in the city your mother warned you about. To rebuild Hinge, a relatively small dating app that's often invoked as an alternative to Tinder, the company first plans
Arts & Entertainment Report: It's Not (Just) You, Your Favorite Dating App Is Full Of Dudes When it comes to online dating, your average 20- or 30-something has a lot of options. Think Tinder, OKCupid, or Grindr to only name a few. The prevalence and variety of dating apps,
Arts & Entertainment Eff-ing In SF, Vol. 7: How Do Dating Apps Make Money? I'll admit I hadn't been swiping very carefully on Tinder when I got a match, so, as one does, I went back to look at her profile. "Let's match and never message each
Arts & Entertainment UC Berkeley Study Reveals How To Get More Action On Tinder April showers bring weekend nights staying home and swiping on Tinder, so the timing is right for an academic study published this week analyzing what types of profile picture poses and body language
SF News Tinder CEO Sean Rad: A Case Study In Why 29-Year-Old CEOs Shouldn't Run Their Mouths A hilarious profile published Wednesday in London's Evening Standard raises a lot of questions about Tinder CEO Sean Rad's intelligence, and his fitness to be a CEO not to mention their PR person's
SF News 'Thrinder', Tinder For Three-Ways, Raises $500K If you're of the (closed) mind that two's company and three's a crowd, dating app 3nder, pronounced "Thrinder," would like you to "Kink Different." Like Tinder, but with a partner or solo, you
Arts & Entertainment Dating App Finds Opening Lines That Work Best In SF Don't Work So Well In Boston "We're asked all the time if we have some kind of inside scoop as to what openers work best," said Karen Fein, VP of Marketing for the dating app Hinge, after SFist asked
Arts & Entertainment New Terrible Dating App Dubbed 'Tinder Without the Poor People' by Eric Wuestewald Let's be honest: Even in a city with the second highest percentage of millionaires in the country, finding that special someone can be exhausting. You've tried the yacht parties, the
SF News Now There's A Tinder Just For Tech Elites A Stanford business school graduate has launched a new members-only dating app for “high-caliber...people," which we can pretty much assume to mean people like her. The 29-year-old co-founder, Amanda Bradford, tells Forbes
SF News Online Hookup In Bernal Heights Turns Into Robbery Setup, Leads To Car Chase A guy was trying to hook up online in Bernal Heights last night, and when he went to meet up with the girl, she turned out to be bait for an armed robbery.
Arts & Entertainment There's A Tinder For LinkedIn Now If you've always though there was a little romance in those endless "Invitation to Connect" emails from LinkedIn, then LinkedUp! might be your new favorite dating app. Although not officially affiliated with LinkedIn,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Women Reading Grindr And Scruff Messages Thank you to Second City for giving us these dramatic readings from women using actual message threads from gay men on the apps Grindr and Scruff. Yes, they are full of misspellings, both
