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This article was published on April 27, 2012

Meet Between, the intimate app for two that launched a year before Pair


Meet Between, the intimate app for two that launched a year before Pair
Courtney Boyd Myers
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Courtney Boyd Myers

Courtney Boyd Myers is the founder of audience.io, a transatlantic company designed to help New York and London based technology startups gr Courtney Boyd Myers is the founder of audience.io, a transatlantic company designed to help New York and London based technology startups grow internationally. Previously, she was the Features Editor and East Coast Editor of TNW covering New York City startups and digital innovation. She loves magnets + reading on a Kindle. You can follow her on Facebook, Twitter @CBM and .

There’s been a lot of buzz this year about a service called Pair, which lets you interact with your significant other in an intimate way. Think of it as a “Facebook for lovers”, a “Path for couples”, or “Super-SMS”. In just its first few days, the app saw over a million messages sent using the platform.

But have you heard of Between? It’s the intimate app for two that launched a year before Pair and has seen 700,000 downloads since its late November launch!

We caught up with Between co-founder Edward Lee who’s visiting The Next Web Conference from South Korea. Let’s hear what the first mover in this field has to say…

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