Excerpt from college.usatoday.com story about 2014 eLab Summer Accelerator team, Friendsy.
Two Princeton University seniors are looking to change how friendships evolve on college campuses.
Vaidhy Murti and Michael Pinsky launched the social networking website Friendsy in 2013 to offer students a better way to connect with fellow classmates. With a host of new schools added this semester, the platform is pickup up some serious steam and now has about 20,000 users at 40 different colleges, resulting in almost 200,000 mutual connections made.
Friendsy gives users the option to choose their interest in another person in three different ways — friendship, hook up or date.
“I think at the end of the day it is sort of a conversation starter,” says Chandler Keller, a student representative for Friendsy at Colgate University. “Whether they push friend or hookup — it can lead to something.”
Friendsy blossomed after Murti and Pinsky happened to sit down at the student center together to watch a New York Yankees game. They eventually became good friends.
Read the full story at college.usatoday.com.