MeetMe vs. Tinder

MeetMe vs. Tinder

Comparison of History

In sharp contrast to one another, MeetMe’s origin story feels more organic, more Hollywood-esque than Tinder’s. Today, this large online dating company was, believe it or not, started up by high school students.

It gets better because they weren’t just high school students; they were siblings. The original idea, you feel, was to connect people who finished the same year together. The original name certainly backs up that description as it was called ‘myYearbook.’

After they convinced their brother about the viability of the idea, they got in investors who put a lot of money behind the project. In 2005, MeetMe launched but as myYearbook. The social media platform went through a timeline of activities in its history. Along the line, it launched an iOS app and an Android one too.

In 2011, it purchased another social media company called Que Pasa, and it was this merger that let the name change to what it is today. MeetMe has yearly revenue of upwards of $20 million. Seven years after MeetMe was launched, Tinder was launched into the dating sphere. Tinder’s story is one of the startup incubators and venture capitalism.

The success story that venture capitalism defenders can point to as the evidence that startup incubators do work. Tinder was launched as a collaborative effort by two tech labs, and in 2012, the result of that collaboration was launched.

Today, Tinder is worth billions of dollars, and it owes that in no small part to its reinvention of how matchmaking systems should work on dating platforms. Its system proved successful, and Tinder now reports revenues of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Key Features

Both websites have several features that you can use for free. If you want to do more, they’ve made many extra features available for you, but for a fee. For example, on MeetMe, you can register an account and create a free profile on the platform.  After you’ve set up your profile, you can search for matches, chat them up, or put yourself out there in a more public way via Live Stream, all without paying a dime.

If you do subscribe for a premium account, you have access to more features such as seeing which user viewed your picture and might be secretly admiring you. The ads that you have to endure as a free account user disappears, and you can use the platform anonymously.

With a free Tinder account, you can register an account, there is no live stream option, but you will be featured publicly on the matching system. The matching system gives you the ability to make swipes. However, the number of right swipes you can make a day are capped.

Paying for Tinder arms you with features that can speed up your matching prospects. You can see which member swiped right on you, you can get instant matches, and you also have access to unlimited likes and right swipes.

If you pay for Tinder premium, you will appear at the top of your geographical queue on the app.