Hot or Not’s Co-Founders: Where Are They Now?
— Before there was Facebook, or YouTube, Twitter or Tinder, there was HOTorNOT, the website where (in the words of co-founder James Hong), “People uploaded their picture for others to rate on a scale of 1 to 10 based on hotness.”
To a generation of guys and gals in college dorms, this was an invention on a par with fire and the wheel: Hours upon hours could be wasted, happily, rating the hotness of fellow students, faculty, celebrities and European royalty.
« My wife recalls posting her picture to HOTorNOT her freshman year in college, years before we met, » Jim Young, HOTorNOT’s other founder, told ABC News recently. « She remembers her dorm mates thinking it was hilarious and shocking. (suite…)