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Who We Are
Founded in 2000, HOT or NOT® is the original place to rate, date and hook up with single people 18-34. With millions rated using HOT or NOT's proprietary "RATE" feature, HOT or NOT is the official home of hotness. HOT or NOT makes signing up fast, easy and FREE. Once a profile is created, users can "MEET" other members through HOT or NOT's exclusive DoubleMatch™ dating engine. HOT or NOT also offers other fun options such as real-time chat, virtual flowers and gifts, and HOTLists™, which let members share their passions through personal selections of over 220,000 pictures of bands, movies, sports, TV shows, products, and hobbies. HOT or NOT is the best place to rate and date hot singles between the ages of 18-34!
How HOT or NOT got started
One late Tuesday afternoon, Jim mentioned to my brother Tony and I that he thought a girl we recently met was a perfect 10. Meanwhile, I was drinking. Ever hang out with your friends drinking and come up with a totally crazy idea based on something someone said? Well, that's exactly what happened.
Jim built the site in a few days, and then HOT or NOT was "launched." Actually, all we did was email a bunch of our friends, telling them about the site. Within an hour, we started getting submissions to the site from people we didn't know! It turns out that everyone we sent it to had passed it on to their friends too.
Word started spreading fast, and within a few months, there were articles about HOT or NOT in a bunch of newspapers and magazines like Salon.com, BusinessWeek, Playboy, and Slashdot. We were amazed by the interest- we made Entertainment Weekly's "It" List, cited as among the 100 most creative people in entertainment, won a People's Voice Award at the Webby's, and showed the site off on the Sally Jessy Raphael show. We heard that Conan O'Brien and Letterman even talked about the site.
We can hardly believe that the site has already counted over 12 billion votes! The coolest thing was when my parents told me that my cousins in Taiwan saw pictures of Jim and I in some magazine there. It's also helped us get back in touch with people that we knew in elementary school!
Starting HOTorNOT.com has definitely been an incredible experience, we love our job and get lots of cool perks ;) It's really satisfying to know that there are so many people that like the site and that there are lots of happy relationships and even marriages as a result of what we've done. There have also been a ton of parody sites out there that we think are absolutely hilarious.
We can only really take credit for drinking the beer and putting in a lot of hours to keep the site running. The bulk of the credit goes to all the cool moderators, especially Pete, Aggy, and Lily, and to people like YOU who submit their pictures to the site.
We appreciate your support and hope you continue to enjoy the site.
Products
Rate - Our instant 1-10 rating system has been fun and addicting for over 9 years! Every day, HOT or NOT users cast millions of votes for hot girls and guys in over 200 countries around the globe! And our members rate more than just each other...they rate celebrities, bands, presidential candidates, products, brands and more. Since we began photo rating in 2000 we have logged over 12 billion votes!
Date - The low-cost high-value place to connect. Want to meet someone? Find an online friend or a date? Our proprietary filtering and no hassle profiles help identify great potential matches for our members. We pioneered the DoubleMatch™ system so that both people agree there is a connection before chatting or emailing. All profiles are first reviewed by our moderators (volunteers from our community) to keep it fun, clean and real™. We charge a small monthly fee that keeps our membership quality high. On average our site delivers over 100,000 DoubleMatches every 48 hours!
HOTLISTS - Our community has uploaded over 220,000 images of favorite brands, products, lifestyle-choices, travel destinations, clubs, cars, and celebrities, that help them self express and share their most personal passions and interests in the form of HOTLists. There are some things that words cannot express, or that are better NOT expressed in words. HOTLists covers those bases in spades. HOTLists helps make HOT or NOT the best place to rate and date hot singles between the ages of 18-34!
In The News
HOTorNOT.com Dating App for the iPhone Debuts in Top 5
February 09, 2009 // (San Francisco, CA) – The first-ever mobile dating application introduced just two weeks ago for the iPhone by HOTorNOT.com rapidly ascended to the #4 ranking in the social network category at the iTunes store. The social networking application which provides a place to rate and meet 18-34 year olds took only a few days to reach over 70,000 downloads and join its social networking counterparts, Facebook, MySpace, and AIM, in the top 5 most popular downloads. Since its release, there have been nearly 7 million ratings and over 3.5 million yes and no votes, an astounding feat for any networking application.
HOTORNOT.COM Launches iPhone Rating and Dating App!
January 22, 2009 // (San Francisco, CA) - Just in time for Valentine's Day, HOTorNOT.com announces the launch of their first-ever mobile dating application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. HOTorNOT.com, the original place to rate, meet and hook-up with 18-34 year olds, developed the proprietary application to allow users to rate and date all of the hotties they can handle "on the go." Starting today, iPhone owners can download the application for FREE in the iPhone App Store.
Welcome to the newest iPhone addiction: Hot or Not.
The iPhone has a huge, beautiful screen that is touch sensitive. Has there ever been a more perfect device for looking at pictures of beautiful people and rating them with one click?
The answer is no — welcome to the newest iPhone addiction: Hot or Not.
December is Now The Hottest Month of The Year!
HOTORNOT.COM concludes their two-month search to find their first ever "MISS. & MR. KNOCKOUT" at America's biggest party towns!
December 22, 2008 // (San Francisco, CA) HOTorNOT.com, the original place to rate and meet hotties, has finally concluded their exhaustive search for the hottest co-eds in three of the nations biggest party towns: Austin, Texas; Gainesville, Florida; and San Diego, California. After a grueling two-month search, the hotness has emerged in the form of Steve & Destiny from San Diego (with nearly 5,000 votes combined!), Annaka & Chris from Austin, and Mariel & Roberto, chosen as the most gorgeous in Gainesville. Of the winners, Annaka received the most votes with nearly three THOUSAND members giving her an aggregate rating of 9.9 out of 10 and sharing her love for "Chocolate, Cowboys, Longhorns, and Pizza".
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HOT or NOT Launches New Celebrity-Focused Features
The ever popular HOT or NOT has unleashed several new features with the hope of adding more spice to their service with a greater focus on celebrity photos and gossip. All of the traditional meat market features like rating member photos are still there... Read full story
HOT or NOT-based study shows "Why guys go for outta-their-league ladies"
It's a rule, bartender Karen Brody says: The schlubbier the guy, the more likely he is to persistently pursue a pretty woman.
Brody - a lithe, slender Woodstown, N.J., bartender who looks at least a decade younger than her 47 years - recalls the time she was being "entertained" by a paunchy trucker with several missing front teeth. As the night wore on, he slumped to one side and eventually toppled off his barstool. When she raced around to make sure he was OK, the plump patron immediately resumed his pick-up patter - from the... Read full story
Obama is fired up, McCain cooler to 'Hot or Not' voters
So go the results of a "Hot or Not" online survey that shows the Democratic presidential candidate with a 9.5 rating and the Republican presidential candidate trailing at 5.2.
Online "Hot or Not" voters, who tend to range from age 18 to 30, can participate by going to the "Hot or Not" Web site and making their selection, a spokeswoman said. They also can rate celebrities and people who post photos on the social networking... Read full story
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