[mtmail]

There always was a market for such a service

"Hot or Not was preceded by the rating sites, like RateMyFace, which was registered a year earlier in the summer of 1999, and AmIHot.com, which was registered in January 2000 by MIT freshman Daniel Roy." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_or_Not

"Hot or Not was sold for a rumored $20 million on February 8, 2008 to Avid Life Media"

[ksaitor]

True true! There is a bit of a difference tho.

"Hot or Not" was used to compare two different people.

My inspiration for Facerank was to help me optimise my Tinder profile, lift by ELO score and get more matches (maybe a wife, lol). So here, people supposed to upload their own pics :)

[coralreef]

I don't recall HotOrNot using people comparison, but a 1-10 hotness scale.

FaceMash compared people (at least according to the movie)

[hopler]

Facebook was originally Facemash, a hotornot clone.