Last October, Los Angles-based Science Inc. launched its newest company, Let’s Date, a service focused on being your social dating identity. Founded by Sean Suhl, Steve Simitzis, and Courtney Riot, the people behind the alternative community Suicide Girls, Let’s Date sets out to be the first entirely mobile dating product that helps match you up based on reactions to dating profiles and actual dates while also learning from it to improve its offerings. Today, the company is announcing that the app is now available throughout the United States. The company says that just in January alone, nearly 25,000 real world dates were set up through the app within select markets, including San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles. Other findings that the company has found include the fact that every day, there are 1 million “Let’s Date” or “No Thanks” actions within the app. In a single day, 8,000 people went on a date using a location recommended through Let’s Date. Finally, 130,000 messages were sent between users everyday. Calling itself the “Instagram of dating”, Let’s Date uses Facebook Connect to log people into its app. It says this is necessary in order to verify who they really are — and to avoid having a Manti Te’o moment. It is believed that only those people with 50 friends are able to join the service. Once logged in, users are guided through a few questions and then the app produces a “da
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