Justin Macleod's dating app Hinge wants to be the anti-Tinder. Raising $12 million in December 2014 Hinge is set to expands its reach to new cities across the US in 2015. It's niche? It only connects people with mutual friends on Facebook.
The popularity of Tinder and Grindr demonstrate that we have become more comfortable with connecting, both online and in real life, with strangers. But what if you crave human contact of the more platonic kind? Cuddlr is a sex-free alternative to ‘hooking up’.
How do high net-worth individuals meet people online? Not through Tinder, but through Luxy - an online dating app aimed specifically at the well-off. Billing itself as "Tinder, minus the riff-raff", the app launched in October 2014 on both iOS and Android.
Mobile dating app Tinder simplifies an increasingly complicated hookup culture, appealing to online dating sceptics and millennials alike by minimising the chances of rejection.
An evolution of dating apps and websites, the hookup app is a tool designed specifically for users to get laid and get out. But what does the rise of never-see-you-again sex mean for real relationships?