{"id":29658,"date":"2017-01-23T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/kickstarter-suspends-adoption-app-adoptly\/"},"modified":"2017-01-23T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T17:00:00","slug":"kickstarter-suspends-adoption-app-adoptly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/kickstarter-suspends-adoption-app-adoptly\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickstarter Suspends Tinder-Styled Adoption App Adoptly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, a company called Adoptly launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/adotply\/adoptly-parenthood-is-just-a-swipe-away\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kickstarter page<\/a> to fund a new Tinder-styled mobile app that would allow prospective parents to quickly select a child to adopt. The concept video illustrates adults swiping right or left to accept or reject pics of kids looking for a family, just as one would choose a date on Tinder. &#x201C;Parenthood is now just a swipe away,&#x201D; the video promises.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of choosing or rejecting a child to adopt based on a single picture seemed just a bit too dark to be real. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/1\/19\/14319654\/adoptly-tinder-for-child-adoption-app-kickstarter-parody-startup\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Verge reached out<\/a> to Adoptly co-founder Alex Nawrocki, who insisted that the idea is totally legit. &#x201C;We&#x2019;re not trying to gamify or make fun of this experience,&#x201D; Nawrocki said. &#x201C;The adoption industry at large is a little bit underserved by the tech industry. We saw this unique opportunity to disrupt it, particularly when you&#x2019;re talking about online adoption.&#x201D;<\/p>\n<p>Further inquiry revealed that none of the four listed founders of the company have Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter profiles, nor does the company itself even have a Twitter account. It seems like Kickstarter became suspicious of the company as well, because the Adoptly project was suspended within a week of its creation. Still, 16 people thought it was a good enough idea to chip in $4,000 towards the $150,000 goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was the company real or was it all a hoax?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3036],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kickstarter Suspends Tinder-Styled Adoption App Adoptly - Merry Jane<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/kickstarter-suspends-adoption-app-adoptly\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kickstarter Suspends Tinder-Styled Adoption App Adoptly - 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