Invite-Only Dating App ‘Wyldfire’ Hopes To De-Creep Your Matches

Where women go, dick pics follow.
Forthcoming dating app Wyldfire seems to get this. With herds of men vying for virtual female attention, its founders hope to apply a measure of quality control.

When the app launches next month, women may join Wyldfire freely, but men can only be invited by an existing female user. Baseline criteria for invitees likely includes “unlikely to send dick pics” and “not interested in dating personally,” thereby creating a pre-approved pool of dateable men.

Other companies, like Hinge and forthcoming Siren, aim to recreate successful offline settings and install vetting mechanisms to make their experiences more pleasant for women. While Tinder allows anyone with a Facebook profile to join in (shirts

and surnames optional), Hinge connects users based on listed mutual friends or third degree connections, while pulling information like education and occupation from public-facing Facebook profiles.

Wyldfire still stands out for its originality. If Tinder is your neighborhood pickup bar and Hinge your friend’s coworker’s house party, Wyldfire may be that dinner party where everyone brings a platonic plus-one.