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Tinder for shy types earns millions for millennial developer

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Jessica Fenol, ABS-CBN News

MANILA - Valenice Balace quit her job in a telecommunications company to build a dating app for conservative Filipinas like her and the gamble has so far paid off by $100,000 (P5 million).Peekawoo allows users to strike up conversations within the app on a variety of topics, unlike US-made Tinder, which matches users based solely on whether or not they like each other.With Peekawoo as its flagship product, Honest Worldwide has earned $100,000 and grew its workforce to 50 from 4 in 5 years, Balace said.&quot;If the customers are happy, they will be willing to pay for it,&quot; she said in a recent forum of app developers for Google&#x27;s Android platform.Peekawoo charges P749 a month for users to access its full features. Tinder charges up to P999 per month.&quot;I think what made me do it was I really wanted to do something different with my life and like I was young. If ever I fail it&#x27;s okay because you have the license to fail,&quot; she said.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/business/09/28/17/5-ways-to-million-peso-success-on-google-play">5 ways to million-peso success on Google Play</a></li></ul>At 29, Balace is CEO and managing partner of Honest Worldwide, which operates Peekawoo.The millennial technology entrepreneur said it was intimidating starting a business at 23, but she believed Peekawoo is a &quot;product that works.&quot;&quot;You have to be kind of confident and try to do baby steps, I think what makes it scary is if you think of the ending right away,&quot; she said.&quot;But if you think like task per task its actually quiet easy. Before you know it you&#x27;re in the middle already,&quot; she said.

Valenice Balace quit her job in a telecommunications company to build a dating app for conservative Asians like her and the gamble has so far paid off by $100,000 (P5 million).

Valenice Balace quit her job in a telecommunications company to build a dating app for conservative Asians like her and the gamble has so far paid off by $100,000 (P5 million).

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Tinder for shy types earns millions for millennial developer

Jessica Fenol,

ABS-CBN News

Published September 29, 2017 06:05 AM PHT

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