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Life & fun · February 17, 2016

Story in a Bottle - Justin McLeod

Hinge's founder breaks down the digital dating world.

Story in a Bottle - Justin McLeod launched on February 17, 2016 with 59 votes, #1,496 of 4,386 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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Online dating is a crowded space and becoming increasingly so across platforms. Seemingly a new phenomenon over the past few years, this extreme growth could be attributed to a time in 2011 when, within two weeks of each other, Tinder and Hinge launched and changed the game as we knew it. Hinge’s founder, Justin McLeod, […]

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