Yes, the Internet has a solution for everything, and Invisible Boyfriend (or Girlfriend, they’re not fussy) can take care of those pesky privacy-invading questions by supplying an actual person to call you, text you and leave you messages. They’ll even send you handwritten notes.
Why, that’s sometimes better than an Actual Boyfriend!
Matthew Homann, who describes himself as a “recovering lawyer” with “idea surplus disorder,” came up with the idea several years ago after a divorce and bought the domain InvisibleGirlfriend.com for $7. He filed it away until late 2013, when he pitched it to a St. Louis hackathon. A long weekend later, he and his team won the contest.
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“We had a user who was at dinner on a date. His text message went off, he texted her back, and all of a sudden the woman across the table from him asked who it was,” he says. The real-life date, he says, wasn’t upset at all, but became more intrigued.
“What we’re seeing is potential user cases are all over the board,” Homann says. “It’s not just, I want to convince my parents I’m in a relationship.”
