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Coffee Meets Bagel Singles Can Now Judge Other Users’ Pics & Unlock Feedback On Their Own

coffeemeetsbagelCoffee Meets Bagel has just added a clever new feature that lets people rate each other’s profile photos, as well as receive feedback on their own.

The new feature from the San Francisco-based company is called Photo Lab, and when clicked, brings up a screen that reads “Put your best face forward”.

Photo Lab then lets you “give others photo feedback” and earn a reward – which comes in the form of “beans”, CMB’s in-app currency – or poll the community to “find the best photo for your profile!”

If you choose the latter, up pops a “hot or not” style interface showing two pictures of the same CMB user.

Earn Coffee Meets Bagel in-app currency

To earn one “bean”, you simply click which photo you prefer, and are shown a percentage, telling you how others rated the two pictures.

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And if you want to test your own pics, users just click the “+” button, and either add two photos from their profile, from Facebook, or from their phone gallery, to get feedback from other singletons.

After they’ve done this, a message appears saying that when the report is ready, they’ll get a notification, and can access it by unlocking it using CMB’s in-app bean currency.

Pay to unlock own report

In a video explaining the feature, which you can watch below, it looks like users trade 100 beans to unlock the report (which costs $1.99).

It’s a nifty little monetisation feature from Coffee Meets Bagel, adding both a fun gamification aspect for the community, as well as letting users get useful feedback on their photos – which do form an important part of their online dating life.

The founders of Coffee Meets Bagel – Dawoon, Soo & Arum Kang – were recently named in GDI’s Power Book 2016, which you can download for free here.

Simon Edmunds

Simon is the former editor of Global Dating Insights. Born in Newcastle, he has an English degree from Queen Mary, London and after working for the NHS, trained as a journalist with the Press Association. Passionate about music, journalism and Newcastle United.

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