A LETTER FROM THE GUY WHO MADE IT
If you're reading this, it's cause I trust that you're a force for good in the world, truly.
Anyway, I'm Jordan, I just spent the better part of a year building this cruising site. I realized after 20 years in the dating app industry that the problem is the investor always wants more. So it's not about making the best thing, but rather making the thing that makes the most money, and that's a little fucked up. They're eating America, btw. Stuffy businessmen fixated on their third yacht.
So I want to try to set a good example here: Meat.cc should pay for itself, but not make a fortune at everyone's expense. I can keep the servers running if 1 in 20 people pay $3 a month. No ads. No bullshit. Not everything needs to be predatory! The only ads I want to run are for bars, clubs, and events, and those will be free, because brick-and-mortar businesses have it rough enough these days, and they should have a way to reach the community without lining Zuckerberg's pockets. Or Elon's. Don't even get me started.
The real dream, since you're still reading: I don't want Meat to be a thing you scroll alone at 1am. I want it to be how the neighborhood finds each other again. The bar night, the beach day, the group chat that turns into an actual room full of people. The other apps taught us to stay home. I want to build the thing that gets you out the door.
And yeah, this thing does basically everything. I can hardly believe it myself, but we've got a map, a grid, a TikTok-style feed, and then some. Please, come on in, and tell your friends. And I promise I won't bring this up at the gangbang.
—J
The deal
Everything the other apps charge for. Free.
The map, the grid, gaydar, video, matches, the board are free forever. Nothing here stops at profile 99 and asks for your credit card.
No ads. You're not the product.
You'll never sit through a 30-second ad for a shitty game here. No banners, no tracking pixels, no selling your eyeballs. Our analytics count taps, not people.
The entire business model is $3.
Someday, exactly one paid thing: $3 a month keeps your chat history forever, plus a few toys. If 1 in 20 of you take it, the servers keep running.
Run a bar, a night, a party?
Event promotion on Meat is free. That's the one kind of ad we want. Email us and we'll put your night in front of the men down the street.
Send this page to the group chat. That's the ad budget.
Dedicated to my dog Ava, who got run over by a car and inspired me to do something bigger with my life. And my grandparents, who continue to remind me posthumously how fulfilling it is to make life better for the people you care about. And ketamine, which helped me get out of my own way and build this. But that's another story.