On Thursday, the famous hook-up … I mean, location-based social network app, Grindr, will announce its newest venture. Via webcast, Grindr CEO Joel Simkhai will launch Project Amicus, which takes the Grindr idea of men meeting meN and opens it up to “everyone, whether you’re female, male, straight, gay, lesbian or bi,” according to an invitation to the webcast.
So finally, your non-gay male friends can leave you alone about how you’re hooking up all the time … err, making friends, because they can now do it for themselves.
In Thursday’s webcast, Simkhai will announce the app’s name (Project Amicus is a working title), key features and discuss how it will affect the socializing scene, which this guy isn’t all too fond of. But with Grindr’s bragging rights of having 2.6 million users, they have to be doing something right.
To get your invite to the Project Amicus app, click here to begin. If you’re interested in Thursday’s webcast at 10 a.m. Central time, email here to RSVP.
UPDATE: The new app’s name is Blendr. Simkhai tries hard to keep the app sounding G/PG rated by telling the New York Times today, ““If someone speaks the same language or is also into cooking, or crafts, that’s a strong basis of commonality and you might want to go meet them.”
so, it’s basically gonna have the same tricks that all of the others have? I mean…ya know…grindr, scruff, growlr..open all 3, search “nearby”…and its the SAME people…well…except growlr doesn’t have the pretty boy smooth twinks …its a bigger crowd..literally.
I prefer to go to the bars or dark alley to meet my potential exhusbands. Usually when I see someone in a polyester suit and bushy mustache on one of those profiles, I assume the pic was taken about 30+ years ago. Oh, by the way…5’8″ 350lbs is NOT an average body type! I hate being set up for disappointment. Afterall, who wants to go to someone’s run down apt with cats running around when you can see and smell for yourself in the safe surroundings of the gayborhood or your local Kroger?