PLINK INCORPORATED
For competitive and social gamers seeking teammates for multiplayer sessions and community engagement.
Known forPLINK – Team Up, Chat, Play
PLINK – Team Up, Chat, PlayFor competitive and social gamers seeking teammates for multiplayer sessions and community engagement.
PLINK – Team Up, Chat, PlayConnecting gamers through social matchmaking and squad-building tools. Helping players find teammates based on skill, language, and location.
Target audience
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PLINK – Team Up, Chat, Play
v1.187.0
3mo ago
Primary focus
Social networking and matchmaking for gamers
Scale
indie
Target audience
Competitive and social gamers seeking teammates for multiplayer sessions and community engagement.
Origin
Founded in 2018, the company focuses on building tools for gamers to track stats and find teammates.
Released 13 updates across 2 apps in the last 6 months, indicating a high frequency of maintenance and feature iteration.
2 apps analysed
Skill-based matchmaking filters reduce the social cost of finding teammates
Team up and find gamer friends, track your stats to talk & play
Automated stat tracking provides persistent user-retention hooks
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Neutral / mixed
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Negative apps
15/100
Avg sentiment score
Plato dominates the 'social gaming' niche by integrating high-frequency, low-friction multiplayer games directly into the chat interface, creating a superior network effect.
Strategic outlook coming soon.
What fed this analysis
WePlay dominates the social-gaming niche by combining voice chat with integrated casual party games, directly overlapping with Plink's core mission of connecting gamers.
Discord is the industry standard for gamer communication, serving as the primary platform where Plink's target audience already organizes their gaming sessions.
The Xbox app provides native LFG (Looking For Group) and social features that directly compete with Plink's teammate discovery value proposition.
A direct competitor in the 'matchmaking for specific games' niche, proving the viability of specialized LFG (Looking For Group) tools.
Yalla serves as a strong regional competitor in the voice-chat and social-gaming space, focusing on real-time interaction.
Adjacent social platform focusing on avatar-based identity and virtual world interaction.
Focuses on the performance-tracking aspect of gaming, which is a key component of Plink's value proposition.
Steam serves as the primary utility for PC gamers, offering social and store features that overlap with Plink's community goals.
Adjacent social networking platform centered around fan-to-artist connection and community building.
Targets the social-gaming audience through a specific, high-engagement tabletop niche.
Represents an emerging threat in the social-interaction space by using AI to facilitate engagement.
Highly active niche social network with a strong focus on community-driven live streaming and interaction.
Emerging social app utilizing location-based social features to drive rapid adoption among younger demographics.
