The Ledger, every show
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Simkhai: Egyptian authorities actively use Grindr to track and arrest gay men
“It's not alleged. It happens.”
Simkhai: Grindr's customer acquisition cost was essentially zero
“Our marketing spend was essentially zero, so our cost to acquire new users was essentially zero. I mean, that's what allowed us to grow. You know, if I had to spend money acquiring users, we would not have been able to achieve what we achieved.”
Simkhai: London Olympic athletes did not cause the 2012 Grindr outage
“And it was ridiculous, right? I mean, how many Olympians are there? A few thousand. How many of them are gay? Maybe a dozen, a few dozen or a few hundred. For them to be able to crash our servers when we had, you know, hundreds of thousands of users and maybe,…”
Grindr founder: App was hacked shortly after Kunlun acquisition
“We got hacked soon after the deal closed.”
Simkhai: Grindr's grid interface was inspired by the iPhone photo album
“And I remember, you know, one day looking at my photo album on my phone, And I said, hey, wouldn't it be great if these were the guys around me? And so that was really the inspiration for the user interface of Grindr, and it still remains today, is it's a grid…”
Grindr launched with zero-friction onboarding requiring no email, account, or photo
“So we didn't even require an email address no phone number, nothing. It was just we had used the device ID. You could log on, and you didn't have to even create an account, which later became a problem, but initially, you could just log on, and photos were not…”
Grindr averaged around 1,000 downloads per day during early promotion
“And so we got probably about a thousand downloads a day.”
Grindr made several hundred thousand dollars in ad revenue its first year
“Maybe a few thousand dollars the first month, and imagine the first year we probably made a few 100,000 dollars in in ads.”
Simkhai: Grindr's early App Store reviews averaged one star
“Yeah, our app store ratings were, you know, one star. We had Horrible reviews, and .”
Simkhai: Grindr outsourced early app and backend engineering to Costa Rica
“And so I had another friend, a childhood friend, Yvette Pasqua, who worked at a consulting firm down in Costa Rica. And so eventually I turned to her, I don't know exactly what, I can't remember exactly what year that was, but it was fairly early on, and throu…”
Simkhai: Grindr got 10,000 downloads following Stephen Fry Top Gear mention
“And I went back to my hotel room, and we got 10,000 downloads.”
Simkhai: Grindr moved from Google App Engine to AWS over costs
“Eventually, we went on, we moved to Amazon because they became so expensive but largely because we had implemented them in not a very efficient way.”
Simkhai: Grindr's revenue shifted from 80% ads to predominantly subscriptions
“Initially, I think, you know, ads were 80% of our revenue, and, you know, the subscriptions were 20. And eventually, it would flip to the opposite, where, you know, most of the money came from subscriptions.”