Dandy, you use your Facebook,” Segel said. But each has its own personality and a place: “Jack’d, you can be a little more anonymous.
It enters a market already flush with popular gay-targeted apps like Grindr, Scruff and Hornet. Dandy joins Online Buddies’ portfolio of companies, including the newish Jack’d and old stalwart Manhunt. With that in mind, today Online Buddies is launching Dandy, a newly acquired German dating app along the lines of Tinder’s “hot-or-not” swiping style. Users of Online Buddies often have multiple apps cued up simultaneously - and are using each app for different purposes.
Some are more like social networks, some are more like hookup apps. Why? Because these apps all serve different purposes. “We know from our research that guys don’t use one, they use multiple,” Segel said over coffee in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood. If Online Buddies CEO Adam Segel has noticed anything in the gay-oriented app market, he said, it’s that there can never be too many dating apps.
