A business date

The tech world is abuzz with new apps aimed at making it easy to find a job, even as you hunt for a partner

On the other side of the fence, the grass always looks greener. The proverb holds true in the app circuits too it seems. Two news making apps demonstrate this point. On the one hand is a dating app walking the path of a professional network, whereas on the other is a commercial network attempting to incorporate the features of a dating app. And you surely won’t walk into a salon to buy veggies we know, but that is how things are being laid out in the tech world.

The next time you swipe into the dating app ‘Bumble’, you might have opened the door to a new job or said ‘hello’ to a new professional friend! The buzz is about BumbleBizz, the new add-on that gives the dating app a new spin akin to LinkedIn. Bumble being a brainchild of Whitney Wolfe, ex-Tinder co-founder, we can expect this and more.

A user can ‘swipe’ into a new business connection between people in the same professional circles. This is treated as step one for future innovations in Bumble so that people can expect more than just hook-up from a dating app. Also, the feature is meant to break into the rigidity of a profession-finder and replace it with a more casual appearance. Very recently, Bumble has incorporated a feature similar to BumbleBizz — BFF. BFF is all about opening the search for finding same-sex friends instead of expecting a hang-out with a partner.

‘Wydr’, a Swiss art buying app on the other hand, has copied down the swipe right, left mechanism of Tinder for people to browse through its vast and wide virtual gallery on mobile phone. The start-up has already been labelled ‘Tinder for Art’. Techcrunch quotes Matthias Dorner, co-founder of Wydr as saying: “Wydr changes how people interact with art. No curator, as all artworks are community curated. Artists get feedback on what users like, and users see what’s hot.”

With the facility, Wydr lets the user pick their favourite painting in original, filter it according to choice, size and price range until they zero in on the piece/s they wish to buy. As many as 400 artists wait on board Wydr for art lovers to come and buy their works.