A real app for an 'Invisible Boyfriend'
For only $24.99 a month you can find a "partner"
PHOTO: INVISIBLEBOYFRIEND WEBSITE
Welcome to 2015: An app can now create a fake boyfriend for its users.
It's called Invisible Boyfriend, and for only $24.99 a month, you can gain access to its significant other-creating services,
The full version includes 100 texts, 10 voice-mails and one handwritten note. You also get to make your own story about how you and your fake partner met.
As the app is still in beta mode, you can try the first 10 texts for free.
"Invisible Boyfriend" uses real humans, not bots, according to CNN and the respondents have been trained, There is also an Invisible Girlfriend service, so that no one feels left out. But both girl and boy subscription services officially launched on Tuesday.
According to the company's blog, the service is not just for people who want to fake a significant other. It is also meant to create a "safe space for you to practice texting with a real human if you're out of practice."
CEO Matthew Homann thought up the service many years ago after a divorce and bought the domain InvisibleGirlfriend.com for $7, CNN reports. Homann put the idea on the back burner until 2013, when he pitched it to a St. Louis hackathon and won the contest.
The app is just in its beginning stages, but Homann and his hundreds of employees are already thinking about new ways to improve it. Down the road, they hope "Invisible Boyfriend" will provide gifts at work and deliver flowers to users on Valentine's Day.
It's called Invisible Boyfriend, and for only $24.99 a month, you can gain access to its significant other-creating services,
The full version includes 100 texts, 10 voice-mails and one handwritten note. You also get to make your own story about how you and your fake partner met.
As the app is still in beta mode, you can try the first 10 texts for free.
"Invisible Boyfriend" uses real humans, not bots, according to CNN and the respondents have been trained, There is also an Invisible Girlfriend service, so that no one feels left out. But both girl and boy subscription services officially launched on Tuesday.
According to the company's blog, the service is not just for people who want to fake a significant other. It is also meant to create a "safe space for you to practice texting with a real human if you're out of practice."
CEO Matthew Homann thought up the service many years ago after a divorce and bought the domain InvisibleGirlfriend.com for $7, CNN reports. Homann put the idea on the back burner until 2013, when he pitched it to a St. Louis hackathon and won the contest.
The app is just in its beginning stages, but Homann and his hundreds of employees are already thinking about new ways to improve it. Down the road, they hope "Invisible Boyfriend" will provide gifts at work and deliver flowers to users on Valentine's Day.