Pair - Stay connected with that special person in your life. Introducing Pair. Yuri Milner, Dave Morin, SV Angel, CrunchFund And More Hook Up Pair With $4.2M. For a social network that’s, for lack of a better term, monogamous, social network for couples Pair has just raised funding from so many high-profile investors I’m having trouble picking who to include in this headline, and seriously running out of room.
In a Long Distance Relationship? This App Is for You. Oleg Kostour moved from Canada to Mountain View to build a 3D software startup.
Instead, he built an app to stay in touch with the girlfriend he left behind in Canada. The iPhone app, Pair, launched in the app store this week. Pair: An Ingenious Iphone App Just For 2. At 7:22pm my husband returned to our apartment after a busy day of all things tech. 5 minutes later we were sharing our first ever ‘Thumbkiss’.
Okay, I’m guessing that sentence needs an explanation… Zee attended the Y Combinator demo day where a bunch of cool new tech start ups were demonstrating their latest products. One of those products was Pair, a free iPhone messaging app designed with the sole purpose of connecting two people. An ingenious and intimate form of social media where the focus is no longer on how many followers you have or how witty your status updates are but about quality interactions with the one you love. Here’s the blurb: Pair…makes it easy to share the little things in life with each other. *Thumbkisses have to be experienced to be believed! Pair Is A Path For The Two Of Us. Let’s say you’re in a serious relationship, but you work all the time and you’re long-distance.
How do you stay close to the other person? I’ve personally had this situation for the last year and a half. My girlfriend and I use Skype, email, our phones, Facebook, and everything else we can to stay connected. We’ve even been using Instagram as a two-person social network to share photos about what we’re up to each day. But now there’s an app to solve this exact problem. The interface starts out deceptively simple. Pair, the ‘Path for Couples’ Hit 50k Users in Four Days. Pair launched four days ago.
Since then, the Y Combinator company has racked up 50,000 users, Greg reports from YC's Demo Day. Not bad. Its impressiveness is only slightly diminished, when you realize that that stat is not by couple: Half of those users are the ladies who've convinced their boyfriends to join. Pair: the app for long distance relationships. Long distance relationships are pretty tough to handle, but thanks to all the advancements in technology, they’ve become easier to handle.
Well, a group of developers have come up with yet another solution for long distance couples. Called Pair, the app basically creates a private shared timeline for couples that allows them to easily swap messages, photos, videos and locations with each other. Instead of filling each other’s Facebook walls with cheesy messages and “I love yous”, this app lets you do the same thing – without the whole world knowing. All users have to do is pair the app with their partner (only one partner allowed at a time) and they’re good to go – couples can start sharing rightaway. Pair also lets user draw together, have a joint to-do list, “thumb kiss” (both users place their thumbs on the screen, and if they hit the same spot the phone vibrates), and more.
[Pair website] . Pair Hits 50K Downloads, 1M Messages in 4 Days. Pair is an interesting refinement of the personal social network that is designed for couples.
Think of it as an even more personal version of Path with only two members, rather than 150. Today, at the Y Combinator Demo Day, the app announced a milestone at 50,000 downloads, 1 million messages shared in just 4 days since launch. The app has received funding from Path’s Dave Morin and SV Angel and is looking for more. Update: And Michael Arrington’s Crunchfund. The engagement with the app so far demonstrates that there is definitely an arena in which people are looking to share with a more focused audience, rather than the broadcast-friendly platforms of Facebook and Twitter.
Path exists somewhere between those giants and a call or text, and so does Pair, but Pair is closer to the phone call or private message end of the scale. The feature set of Pair is relatively limited at the moment, allowing users to share messages and text in a way that is pretty much similar to, well, iMessage. Pair Wasn't The First "Social Network For Couples" There’s been a lot of buzz the past few days about a service called Pair, which lets you interact with your significant other in an intimate way.
Think of it as a “Facebook for lovers”, a “Path for couples”, or “Super-SMS”. In just its first few days, the app has seen over a million messages sent using the platform. However, as it usually goes in technology, the first to execute on an idea isn’t the one that generates the most buzz or sees the most success. The rise of Pair is a perfect example of that, as we’ve seen quite a few apps that are “social network for couples”, but didn’t catch on like Pair has. Facebook wasn’t the first “social network” and Google wasn’t the first “search engine”. PairMixer. Sometimes Love Doesn't Stop At Two.