Is the honeymoon already over for Peter Thiel’s The Right Stuff dating app?
the startup performed solidly during its first two days in the App Store on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, generating roughly 6,000 and 7,000 downloads, respectively, according to estimates shared with The Daily Beast by analytics firms Sensor Tower and data.ai.
Numerous prospective users have complained of the invite-only design and the company’s slowness in approving new profiles, rendering the app unusable for some who downloaded it. In a public reply to one of the complaints in the App Store, The Right Stuff said it had implemented the invite system to weed out “the plethora of miserable liberal trolls.”
While numerous prospective daters did leave positive feedback celebrating the “conservative haven from heaven,” even some of the five-star ratings were insults in disguise. “I’ve found so many perfect women on here, and the best part [is] that they’re all white!” reads one satirical rating left on Oct. 7. “I found my current girlfriend on this app, and she is just perfect. We’ve been dating for 1 1/2 years now, but we’ve been related for 18.
they worried the startup might awkwardly match them with their existing right-wing connections. They also questioned whether the concept was even necessary. Other, larger companies already let users specify their political leanings.The jeering didn’t stop after launch day, when social media took notice of the app’s writing prompts for new users, including “a random fact I love about America,” “favorite liberal lie,” and “January 6th was...
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