Hot or Not

Hot or Not

Updated Jun 15, 2015 at 05:34PM EDT by Don.

Added Apr 25, 2012 at 01:00PM EDT by Don.

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About

Hot or Not is an image rating site where user submitted photos are scored based on level of attractiveness. The site also offers a matchmaking dating service for subscribed users to message one another and send virtual gifts.

Online History

On October 29th, 2000, the site "Am I Hot or Not?" was launched under the domain name HotorNot.com by California-based engineers James Hong and Jim Young. According to a 2005 New York Times[16] article, Hong and Young decided to make the site after a friend of their's remarked that an attractive girl was a "10." According to a 2007 TechCrunch[17] article, the site had accumulated over 40,000 visits by the end of its first day. A few months later, the site was scored as a Nielsen[15] top 25 advertising domain. In January of 2001, the site added a dating component for paid subscribers to interact with other members. In April of 2007, Hot or Not disabled the paid subscription requirement for connecting with other members, which resulted in a 60% traffic increase. On September 18th, TechCrunch[18] reported that Hot or Not had decided to abandon the free model after being inundated with spammer accounts.

Ownership

On February 8th, 2008, the site was sold to Avid Life Media[12], owners of the dating service Ashley Madison, for $20 million. On April 2nd, 2012, TechCrunch reported that Hot or Not had been bought by the United Kingdom-based dating site Badoo.[14]

Predecessors

On July 6th, 1999, the first rating site RateMyFace.com[3] was launched by web entrepreneur Michael Hussey. On January 20th, 2000, a similar site AmIHot.com[4] was launched by MIT freshman Daniel Roy. Each used an interface that allowed users to upload and rate photographs.

Mobile App

On January 22nd, 2009, Hot or Not released a free iPhone app on the iTunes[7] digital media store. The app allowed registered users to rate photos, narrow results by geographic location and send other users virtual gifts.


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In May 2013, a new version of the mobile app was released under the new ownership of the UK-based dating site company Badoo, which has garnered more than 10 million users in the United States within the first year. On June 17th, 2014, a new iteration of the mobile app was released via iTunes and Android app stores, which offers a geosocial networking feature that has become a standard through competitor apps like Tinder and OKCupid, a user-voting system based on a scale of attractiveness and a real-time "Hot List" leaderboard that ranks the most attractive users in local proximity.


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Features

Initially, the site limited users to uploading and rating photographs. Eventually, the "Meet Me at Hot or Not" matchmaking component was added to the site, which allowed subscribed users to create dating profiles and connect with other members.


Rate People Meet People Best Of Meet Jlim and James HOT or NOT Select a rating to see the next picture. Login Show me men and women 의 of any age Click Here to Meet Me Share Your Style! HOTorNOT Hotlists Share Link: http://hotornot.com/r/?eid-RRBOKUM □ share Picture Flag picture as: Inappropriate * Broken ★ Best Of ⓤ What is this? Login password Your account I Moderators I RSS Feeds I FAQ

Impact

In early 2003, Livejournal user bigexpy launched the rating community "NonUglies", where other Livejournal users submitted photos of themselves to be voted upon before being accepted into the community. The site inspired a number of other rating communities before being deleted for violating Livejournal's terms of service. On October 28th, 2003, Mark Zuckerberg launched Facesmash, the predecessor to the social networking site Facebook, which featured a Hot or Not-style rating system for Harvard students. The site Facemasher.com[10] was created in 2010 as a recreation of Zuckerberg's site.


FACEMASHER.COM Are looks supposed to matter? No. Will we be judged by them? Yes. Who's Hotter? Click to Choose. OR ˊ锉 ModelMayhem Profile #1044379 M ode!Mayhem Profile #78 7384 Girls Cleavage Guys Alabama F Portrait Alabama F Full Top 10 Hottest Submit Photo

In a 2007 Time Magazine[21] interview, cofounder Jawed Karim of the video-sharing website YouTube revealed that the site was initially supposed to be a video version of Hot or Not. Karim was inspired by Hot or Not's user upload features, which was a new concept online at the time. The site became a more general video hosting service, with the first video uploaded on April 23rd, 2005.

Research

On May 14th, 2006, Flickr[9] user Pierre Tourigny uploaded composite images he created using groups of women from different score brackets on HotorNot.com. Tourigny blended the photographs together for each bracket using the morphing software SquirtzMorph.[8]


Hot or Not Composite lmage:s 1.0 3.4 3.5-3.9 4.0 4.4 4.5-4.9 5.0-5:4 5.5-5.9 6.0 6.4 6.5-6.9 7.0-7.4 7.5-7.9 8.0 8.4 8.5 8.9 9.0-9.4 9.5-10 Average

Traffic

According to Wikipedia[11], HotOrNot reached nearly two million page views per day within a week of launching. As of April 25th, 2012, the site holds an Alexa[6] traffic rank of 15,092 and Compete[5] score of 24,293.



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