Coffee Meets Bagel

A shared 'global blacklist' alliance for dating and social app safety

Bradford pitches an industry alliance where independent dating and messaging apps share a blacklist of bad actors and predators, so a banned user can't simply move from The League to Hinge, Bumble, or Coffee Meets Bagel. No current business model is incentivized to share that data.

“What we've wanted to always build is sort of this global blacklist, I guess you could think of it, where there's all these bad actors. And all of us are the non-Facebook and the non-Google people. We like don't have huge databases and machine learning teams and giant infrastructure to prevent like thieves from getting on the apps and stuff like that. And we're all literally solving the same problems.”

Steal thisBuild a shared trust-and-safety blacklist co-owned by competitors so banned bad actors can't just hop platforms.