INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Make space for another dating app in your single life: Blindlee is Chatroulette for dating but with female-friendly guardrails in the form
of a user-controlled video blur effect.The idea is pretty simple: Singles are matched randomly with another user who meets some basic
Though their interlocutor also has to agree to the reduction so neither side can unilaterally rip the screen away.Dating apps continue to be
a bright spot for experimental ideas, despite category giants like Tinder dominating with a much cloned swipe-to-match formula
Tech giant Facebook also now has its own designs on the space
the big dating apps (Tinder etc)
maximise their chances of finding a partner) and that is an advantage
For example Muzmatch, a YC-backed dating app focused on matchmaking Muslims, offers a blur feature to users not wanting to put their profile
photos out there for any other user to see.But Blindlee is targeting a more general dating demographic
Though Nasan says it does plan to expand matching filters, if/when it can grow its user-base, to include additional criteria such as
in real life with only a digitally mediated version of the person to go on
plunging into a full-bore videochat with a random might sound a bit much, a blurry teaser with conversation prompts looks fairly low
risk.The target user for Blindlee is also likely to have grown up online and with smartphones and Internet video culture
up was about 15 years older
founded in March and launched the app in October on iOS, adding an Android version earlier this month
