Developer(s) BROgrammers LLC Operating system | Development status Active Website www.out.chat | |
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Initial release February 3, 2015; 2 years ago (2015-02-03) | ||
OutChat (formerly Jeltee) is a location-based dating, social discovery application (using Facebook and Vkontakte) that promotes real life meetups over online interactions. The app was launched by BROgrammers LLC in 2015 in the Dubai, UAE, by two PhD students. By December 2015 it had already arranged 100,000 matches of which 10,000 resulted in meetups, and has over 30,000 active users The number of OutChat users reached around 40,000 by August, 2015 making it one of the fastest growing social apps in the UAE. Originally, the app was introduced with the name Jeltee and then was renamed to OutChat.
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After signing up with facebook or other social media networks, users experience the following interactions/steps:
Reviews
Gary Shapiro wrote in his article on South China Morning Post that chat app developers from Asia could learn from OutChat how to build and sustain relationships. To the statement by one of the founders about OutChat not being an online dating service, Stepfeed commented-“That’s a great strategy for avoiding any regulatory issues in the UAE – but like everything on the Internet, we’re pretty sure we know what it’ll be used for.”