POP! - In 2020, 4 friends decided to spice up the online dating scene by creating a dating and friend-making app where users can flex their personality not only through profile prompts but through drawing prompts and fire drawings as well. The creators went viral on TikTok and their app blew up, allowing them to take a break from college and focus on the development of Monet.
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Monet - the Doodle-dating App
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TikTok's New Developer Tools Allow Apps Logins With TikTok, Sound Sharing, and More
TECH CRUNCH - May 8 - TikTok is expanding its integrations with third-party apps. The company introduced TikTok Login Kit and Sound Kit, that will allow apps on mobile, web and consoles to authenticate users via their TikTok credentials, build experiences that leverage users' TikTok videos and share music and sounds back to TikTok from their own apps. Once signed in, users can access their TikTok videos in the third-party app, potentially fueling entire new app ecosystems with TikTok content. Early adopters of the Login Kit include gaming clips app Allstar, anti-anxiety app Breathwrk, social app IRL, as well as dating and friend-making apps Snack, Lolly, MeetMe, Monet, Swipehouse and EME Hive.
by Sarah Perez
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Monet Is a New Doodle-based Dating App
THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN - Feb 1 - Two Penn students have taken a gap semester to develop a dating app after their project went viral on TikTok, attracting investors. They created Monet, a dating app that asks users to respond to a drawing prompt proposed by their potential match. The platform launched for iOS on Dec. 16, and has already had ~20K downloads. Their video, posted on Oct. 13, went viral within a day, attracting 570K views and 180K likes to date. Following the post's rise, venture capital firms reached out to the team about investing in the app. By December, Monet had closed its first round of funding, allowing them to raise ~$500K.
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