Grindr, the largest all male location-based mobile social networking tool for the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and compatible BlackBerry devices is coming up for its second anniversary.
At that time, the app will have been downloaded some 1.65 million times and the Grindr community is growing by 100,000 downloads a month and has more than 300,000 daily users spread over 180 countries. Grindr’s success is even more impressive when you consider it began on less than $5,000.
CEO and founder Joel Simkhai told Pink News, “We just thought this would be a cool app. As a gay man I thought. ‘Wouldn’t it be great if I could walk into any room or go to a new city and see who’s gay? Did we think it would become a business? Or that it would impact as much as it has?’ We had no idea.”
