Bloom is a dating community that creates a secure online environment for sex-positive, gay, and edge-of-culture individuals. Based in Oakland, California, and initially known as Together, this YCombinator-backed startup focuses on facilitating social connections through organized group dates in parks. Members specify their preferences for potential partners, and Bloom arranges meetups involving 6 to 8 participants, fostering a welcoming atmosphere. The platform emphasizes a strong culture of consent and relies on referrals, ensuring that users can safely and comfortably engage with new friends and partners.
Bloom is a dating community that creates a secure online environment for sex-positive, gay, and edge-of-culture individuals. Based in Oakland, California, and initially known as Together, this YCombinator-backed startup focuses on facilitating social connections through organized group dates in parks. Members specify their preferences for potential partners, and Bloom arranges meetups involving 6 to 8 participants, fostering a welcoming atmosphere. The platform emphasizes a strong culture of consent and relies on referrals, ensuring that users can safely and comfortably engage with new friends and partners.
tbh is a mobile application designed to provide users with a platform for anonymous feedback among friends. The app allows users to ask and answer questions and includes open text fields, fostering an environment where individuals can express their thoughts without fear of repercussions. This anonymity is intended to enhance self-esteem through the positive reinforcement users receive from their social circles. By facilitating candid interactions, tbh aims to create a supportive space that encourages honest communication among friends.
LikeIt.com (http://www.likeit.com), a fun way to discover people, places, and things via social graph interests and social games. LikeIt™ enables social people discovery, helping users connect to others who are talking about the things they like and share their attitudes. LikeIt™ expands people search beyond the Facebook network, allowing users to easily aggregate interests and activities from eight other social networks into their people-discovery experience. LikeIt™ considers a broad picture of a user’s preferences to make people recommendations, while saving the user the time of having to repeat movie reviews, music channels, favorite restaurants, and other interests from numerous other social sites. The site also uses social games to continually update users’ searchable interests and opinions. How LikeIt™ Works: • Users log-in using a Facebook account and share their favorite music, movies, books, hobbies, and sports across Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Photobucket, Flickr, Foursquare, and Goodreads • The site uses fun social games to encourage people to share their interests, which are fed into a recommendation engine to present interesting people from around the world • “Would You Rather” questions let users compare opinions on today’s hottest topics • “Top Interests” encourages sharing of preferences for movies, sports, music, celebrities, food, books, and more. • “SuperFan” challenges users to pick friends’ top interests, such as the San Francisco 49ers, Oscars®, and Adele • “Who Wore It Best” lets users share fashion opinions and tastes • Using intuition and compatible interests, users play matchmaker for single friends with FriendConnect™ • LikeIt™ is committed to privacy, is TRUSTe certified, and offers users control over who sees what and when