Winkd is a dating app where LGBTQ people are not an afterthought

While dating apps have exploded in popularity, they're most often built with straight, cisgender men and women in mind. Founded by Diana Kalkoul and Neda Robat-Meily, two 20-something Sydneysiders who both have backgrounds in technology, the app aims to be LGBTQ-friendly from the start. "We're two queer individuals ... that are kind of frustrated with the lack of inclusivity dating apps present people with," Kalkoul told Mashable. The pair looked at dating apps like OKCupid -- traditional and a bit slow -- and Tinder -- the first to double-down on mobile -- but found none were quite right. "Tinder always catered to the hetero-market first," she said, "so you could either be male, you could either be female ... It was adopted by queer people and kind of augmented, but that was never the purpose."