Bachelor host Chris Harrison and creator Mike Fleiss have unveiled a new dating app called At First Sight. The app has been in the works for some time now, and the duo believes it will change online dating for the better.
The dating app will give users a Bachelor-like experience, doing a video profile that a producer of the hit ABC show would ask a potential contestant.
Calling it “revolutionary,” recently single Harrison told E! News, "It's a fun, Instagram-slash-Twitter-slash-Vine version of a dating site. We do it how we cast the show. We do video profiles in which you are answering questions that a casting director from The Bachelor would ask you. You will see the videos and see if there's chemistry. You can communicate with them and see more videos."
He also said of the videos, "It basically takes away the first two or three awkward coffee dates of getting to know somebody."
Harrison calls other dating sites, such as Match.com or eHarmony.com “outdated and sad,” saying “I know there are some successful ones, but I can't fathom how they are. Looking at some Photoshopped picture and a bio and then trusting some psych analysis to figure out if you're compatible?! We would never cast the show that way! So why would you go on a date that way?"
Mashable notes the app is available on iOS and Android devices and it has a message function that works through the app.
“People can view online dating as a last resort and kind of a crapshoot," said Harrison. "We want to change that."