How a joke dating app for bearded men became an international sensation
Sep02
I’ll be honest, when I first heard of Bristlr (tagline:’connecting those with beards to those who want to stroke beards’), I thought it was a parody of a dating startup. But what did actually start out as a joke has gained traction, international press attention and 100,000 registered users. Bristlr has been described as ‘Tinder for beards’ and is quite simply an app and website devoted to helping men use their facial hair to attract a mate. John Kershaw was a freelance developer in Manchester, UK who built the service for fun but found that he’d hit on something that…
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