A Tinder Product Analysis à la Jimmy Jr.

Michael Chow
Product Coalition
Published in
4 min readJun 29, 2018

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How Tinder keeps users using

Overview

How did Tinder, popular dating app, grow from launching across a few college campuses in 2012, to 12 million daily matches in just 2 years? I believe, intentionally or otherwise, it utilized a rendition of The Hook Model, a user retention recipe proposed by Nir Eyal in his book, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. So…

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I have experience in product at startups in b2b cloud, b2b2c health and wellness, b2c fintech, and b2c productivity.