Remember Peeple? It finally launches on Monday, but its niceness is a front

March 05, 2016
Aaron Polmeer

By Amanda Connolly

Peeple

The controversy surrounding Peeple when it was first announced as a ‘Yelp for humans’ type platform resulted in its founders having to scrap their idea and go back to the drawing board. Following an article by the Washington Post, revealing the real-life burn book, it quickly became one of the most hated apps on the internet last year. Finally launching on Monday, the new version of Peeple isn’t quite so horrifying… Or at least that’s what its founders want you to think. The app’s creators said “people taught Peeple a valuable lesson” and now it will be about ‘recommendations’ instead…

This story continues at The Next Web

Source:: The Next Web

      

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