On: Match Group Buys PlentyOfFish for $575M

[mtsmith85]

Match, Tinder, OKCupid, HowAboutWe, now PlentyOfFish. I'm curious if there are other mainstream dating apps out there? There are apps like Grindr for the LGBTQ community; JDate for the Jewish community. But what others are there for the larger populations? eHarmony, though I've always been under the belief that religion was a key component of that site.

I find it interesting to see that Match now really owns the space and that TechCrunch is suggesting that the purchase was for "a fresh pool of digitally active singles" vs. technology (OKCupid) or a different experience all together (Tinder).

[caseysoftware → mtsmith85]

The only way to grow the business is to grow the market and move into niches where the customers don't go away, such as Tinder.

Otherwise, the customer base of a dating site is doomed to collapse as it becomes successful: http://caseysoftware.com/blog/working-for-a-dating-website

[chris_overseas → mtsmith85]

https://www.happn.com/ has a mobile app that seems to have a large pool of users, at least in central London.

[theklub → mtsmith85]

FarmersOnly

[nasalgoat → mtsmith85]

Clover on iOS.