App tells you ratio of males to females at a bar BEFORE you get there guaranteeing you ‘get lucky’
New dating app Weepo gives users a chance to meet people based on where they are planning on going that evening
THE ritual of hitting bars to meet fellow singles looks set to be getting increasingly high tech.
A new dating app called Weepo allows users to check the male-to-female ratio at a given bar or club before heading out.
Once a venue with a favourable ratio is found, the app allows users to swipe through the profiles of others who are headed there too, Tinder-style.
After swiping right on each other, a given pair of club hoppers can chat on Weepo as they head to a venue, say co-founders Roy Lugasi and Hod Gerlitz.
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The big idea, however, is mainly to cut short the prolonged chats that have long plagued other dating apps — ending, too often, with no date at all.
“With all those other apps, you have to go through a conversation where it takes two or three days to meet up,” Lugasi told The New York Post. “With this app, you’re practically guaranteed to meet somebody tonight.”
“People who are going out want to get f–ked up and have a good time, and they want to meet you,” user Jesse De Leon, 26, says. “This app just makes the process a lot easier.”
But the creators say that the app differs from other dating sites, such as Tinder, which see prolonged chats taking a while to translate to face-to-face meetings.
However, the way Weepo works means that if you match with someone you don't like, you will still have to face them at your destination.
Weepo, which is free to download, launched four months ago, and currently boasts 50,000 users, 80 per cent of which are in New York.
The app is currently only available in the US, and it is unclear when it will be coming out in other markets.