Grindr Inventor Releases Blendr: Will Most Likely Women Use A Random Hookup Application? Today, the creator of Grindr features established an innovative new software Blendr that replicates Grindr’s template, with one important pose: it permits women to register, as well. Grindr founder and Chief Executive Officer Joel Simkhai promises that Blendr, which founded from the iphone 3gs and myspace on September 8, just isn’t about hookups, but relationships. “we have viewed social networking and felt that it wasn’t most personal,” Simkhai said in a job interview. “With Blendr, we’re putting ‘social’ into social networking. You appear at Twitter and display situations, but you can not really see new people.