WASHINGTON—Joel Simkhai, the creator of Grindr, an extremely popular mobile relationship application for homosexual guys, has spent lots of time recently considering females.

As well as 2 years after establishing Grindr, that has been installed millions of times, the Israeli-born United States resident has turn out with Blendr, a form of the application built to interest both sexes also to heterosexuals.

Like Grindr, Blendr makes use of the iPhone’s GPS technology that is location-sensing find and link users associated with program along with other users near them.

The Blendr application, launched last week as a download free from iTunes or on Facebook, shows images, pages and passions of other users that have “checked in” nearby and enables them to begin with messaging each other.

“Blendr is basically a way that is new satisfy brand brand new people,” said Simkhai, founder and leader of this Los Angeles-based business behind Grindr and Blendr. “We’re assisting you to relate to the individuals in your immediate environments.

“You can in fact see individuals when you look at the room that is same at exactly the same restaurant, in the same gymnasium, during the exact exact same supermarket,” he proceeded. “People who will be extremely, very near to you and tend to be within hiking distance.”

Simkhai stated he created Grindr after determining that old-fashioned online networking that is social “not extremely social.”

“You confer with your buddies, you speak to your family members, you share pictures, you share links, but you’re staying in this network that is closed” he said.

“And therefore we thought to ourselves ‘Let’s combine social and location and enable you to fulfill people that are new’” he said.