Dating app before tinder

I will focus my attention on Tinder specifically for the purposes of this blog post, but rest assured, many of these insights are broadly applicable to the dating app marketplace. act as matching platforms, connecting consenting users to converse over the platform.

Tinder, the market leader, and other dating apps like Bumble (my personal favorite), Hinge, POF, The League, etc. As a long time user (Read: Forever Alone Engineer :P) of dating apps, I’ve always been fascinated by how they worked.