Alex Kessler and Paul Terentev were sitting in an empty house in Orlando, when they decided they wanted to invite over some girls. The two friends met as students at University of Southern Florida and went into business together, creating a company Part Pixel in Tampa Bay where they currently reside. The company then has its sights set on improving the program and moving on to using it with bigger dating sites like match.com. I don’t even care if it makes money, it’s so awesome." Their bottom line: Every single man is using the same pickup line anyway, so why not let the robot do it, and potentially do it better? “[Guys] just don’t know what to say first.” Example: "You're too pretty for this." That may not work on every woman, but with Casanova helping men cast such a wide net, the odds are in their favor. The goal of Casanova is simple: to get as many phone numbers as possible. It then sends a personal message to a match based on the match’s bio. Casanova is an add-on program for the dating app Tinder, designed to have more self confidence approaching women than most single men do. (Swipe left on a user's Tinder profile and it goes away; swipe right and you can make a connection.) As of now, Casanova is just meant for men, as Kessler pointed out the huge disparity between the amount of first messages women receive versus men.
– Apparently Tinder's requirement that users swipe left to reject a profile and right to make a connection is just too demanding, prompting two 24-year-olds fresh out of the University of Southern Florida to unleash a new bot, called Casanova, to do the heavy lifting for you. Users let Casanova play pickup artist, connecting to one's Tinder account, scanning profiles, and sending introductory messages to potential flings—sometimes using funny lines, sometimes romantic ones, all depending on the type of profile Casanova judges the user to be, reports Bay News 9. "When we came up with this one, we were, like, 'This one's ready to go,'" Alex Kessler tells the Daily Dot. "This has to get done. I don't even care if it makes money, it's so awesome." He and his buddy Paul Terentev decided to arm their bot with the kind of unfettered enthusiasm they felt most Tinder users lacked (both men and women can use Casanova, reports the Tampa Bay Business Journal), casting a wide net to as many potential dates as possible in one's physical area over a 20-minute period and sending messages to any matches. Example: "You're too pretty for Tinder. What are you doing here?" The goal? Get as many phone numbers as quickly as possible, and then let the Tinder user take the reins. Apparently Tinder as a program cannot distinguish Casanova from real users, and the bot's founders say they're hoping to eventually set it loose on other services, like Match.com. (Check out the Tinder CEO's painfully candid interview from earlier this year.)