![]() ![]() But this version is a little bit horrifying because while it might be fun to rate other people, it’s never fun to see what strangers really think of you. The makers believe that people will want come back to check their rating and compare their “hotness” to others, much in the way kids compete for followers on Instagram. Unlike most dating apps, though, you can see how popular you are as measured by the number of “hot” votes you get by others. And if two people rate each other as “hot” a connection is made, and they can chat one another. In the new app version, the 10-point system has been replaced by “hot” or “not” buttons (similar to the right and left swipe). ![]() Dating apps have already flooded the market with ways to rate people, and now Hot or Not is trying to look more like them. Hot or Not, he believes, will provide him that access to the states.īut somehow even though Hot or Not invented the addicting game of judging other people’s looks, it found itself late to the party once mobile computing took over our lives. He founded Badoo, a billion-dollar social networking site in Europe that hasn’t been able to break into the U.S. Hot or Not has passed through many hands since its original conception, but is now owned by Andrey Andreev, a 40-year-old Russian who describes himself as a serial entrepreneur. But none of these dating apps would exist if it weren’t for Hot or Not’s original invention.
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