Peeple App (Photo : YouTube)
After a Yelp-like mobile app received harsh online criticism for its human rating, Peeple has basically vanished from the Internet including its website; and its Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram (set to private) accounts. All Peeple YouTube videos have also been pulled, except one that features co-founder Julia Cordray rather than the iPhone and Android star rating system for reviewing friends, relatives, and coworkers like restaurants and vacation destinations.
After negative buzz about Peeple went viral on the Web, an online petition was quickly circulated to end the project before the app was launched through "Internet shaming" on social networks, according to The New York Times. However, Cordray seems resolute.
She stated in an email on October 5, Monday that the app is still scheduled to be released next month. The entrepreneur also stated that her project will not be "shamed into submission."
The reported release of the Peeple app is set for November 2015. Meanwhile, nobody has viewed or used the mobile application yet, and its alleged app development studio has not provided any updates.
The Calgary Herald reported last month that the startup company itself claimed that it received $270,000 in capital funding. Meanwhile, The Washington Post shared that Peeple also stated that as of September 28 its shares' value was $7.6 million.
However, Cordray made a short LinkedIn blog entry on October 4, Sunday. She referred to her product as an app that would bring "positivity" to the world.
Ironically, in a YouTube video that has been removed the app co-founder argued that the app would be irrelevant if it were 100 percent positive, according to Ars Technica. It was Episode 4 of "Peeple Watching."
In the LinkedIn blog Cordray also implied that the app was legitimate. She stated that the company had plans to release Peeple towards the end of November.
This video is about the backlash against the Peeple app:
