[dkulchenko]

Agreed. Why is there no Tinder/online dating equivalent for making new friends locally?

Instead of dating-specific qualifiers, it'd ask for your interests, hobbies, values, age and other demos, then match you based on overlap.

Not Meetup - it's not quite solving the same problem, and so it solves things differently (focusing on shared interests and on discrete meetup events).

[dpeck]

Because every time someone builds this it turns into a dating (charitably) app. If there is a way to find sexual partners in a medium, people will do so.

[tomjen3]

Now I wonder how many people have hooked up via HN.

[dpeck]

Sample size would pretty much guarantee more than 0

[albntomat0]

Bumble has both a friends and business section.

I've never used either, but I feel it likely suffers from "The problem with Tinder is that everyone on it thinks Tinder is a good idea" issue.

[godtoldmetodoit]

My wife met one of her best friends on Bumble BFF - it's the dating app but for friends.

[kirso]

I believe lunchclub.ai is solving for it (raised from a16z) - very tech focused though.

[yoyonamite]

I think there are enough ways to make friends and meet people that a general friend-making app just isn't a big enough need on its own.

[baskire]

There is. Try bumble BFF. https://bumble.com/bff