Hanky, a new invite-only dating app that weeds out “creeps and trolls”

Hanky, a new invite-only dating app that weeds out “creeps and trolls”

A NEW invite-only dating app has been launched to help gay and bi men avoid the perils of online dating such as “catfishing”, “creeps” and “time wasters”.

The founders of Hanky want to change the gay dating world in 2016 and joining is only possible via an invite code from a friend.

[showads ad=MREC] Prospective users must then validate their phone number or sign up through their Facebook account.

If no invite code is provided, at least three current members will have to vote prospective users in.

Hanky boasts that “at least eight out of 10 prospects do not get in”.

“For a long time we’ve been fed up with the vibe of the other gay apps,” Hanky co-founder Jonas Cronfeld said in a statement.

“We wanted to duplicate the nice vibe we experience when being introduced to friends of our best friends.”

Cronfeld said Hanky already receives thousands of applications every day from around the world.

“We will probably never have five million members like some of these other apps because so many get turned away,” he said.

“But we’ll choose quality over quantity any day… our users are nicer and more sexy.”

What do you think? Would you use an app that turns away so many guys? Let us know in the comments below.

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4 responses to “Hanky, a new invite-only dating app that weeds out “creeps and trolls””

  1. Great IDEA! Most gay apps are full of old sleezy men. It’s about time we did something to address that problem!

  2. If I ever got an invite to this I would not accept it. Superficial bullshit. It’s hard enough thinking I have to look a certain way, and not meeting the standard, let alone being told you aren’t sexy enough to go on a dating app.
    And who gets to set the standard in the first place?
    When will all these pretty boys realise they won’t stay pretty forever. One day the next generation of pretty boys will turn their noses up at them and they will wonder what happened. What’s going to happen is they will get exactly what they deserved.

  3. Ahhh, I remember (as an old queen) the days of no phone, no internet, no Twitter, no grinder, no Facebook, no YouTube. Our gay community was better then, now it has completely trashed itself inside out! Look at what technology has done to our once great gay community! These apps and social media sites has caused nothing but trouble! I remember the days being in the Navy and others in the secret gay community and me – having the time of our lives with soldiers and sailors at the docks in garden island, now I am way too old at 70 do to those things now! You rep what you sow as they say!

  4. In short. Fuck off. Your toxic mental attiude, bankrupt spirituality, complete lack of social integrity and community understanding stinks like a dead rat. Go broke, and go broke quickly. It all Just more misguided plastic trash talk degrading our community.