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Company facts and development evidence.

Use the company description and dated catalog snapshot below when writing about TasteTwins. Development evidence, private testing, and future research are distinct stages.

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The facts

  • CompanyLOVE SALONE, L.L.C.
  • LegalLOVE SALONE, L.L.C. — a Maryland limited liability company. Articles of Organization filed and effective March 31, 2023.
  • FoundedFounded March 2023 · Maryland limited liability company
  • OwnershipOwnership: majority woman-owned; 51% held by Founder & CEO Melinda Arnold.
  • ProductNative mobile app · iPhone in private testing · Android in development
  • Founder & CEOMelinda Arnold, from Sierra Leone
  • Co-Founder & CTOCorey Arnold
  • BasedMaryland, United States
  • BetaInvite-only iPhone beta; join at tastetwins.app/join
  • ProgramsMember, NVIDIA Inception (2026)
  • StatusiPhone in private testing; Android in active development, not in testing or released.
  • Place records1,537
  • Menu-item records956
  • Image records2,005
  • Websitetastetwins.app
  • Contacthello@tastetwins.app

The current catalog snapshot was collected on . The iPhone beta is invite-only. New testers join in waves from the beta list. We don't publish active-user or accuracy figures yet.

Image records include 1,999 AI placeholders, 4 user uploads, and 2 Wikimedia images. The four current user uploads are marked unreviewed in the source catalog. These counts describe catalog inventory, not active users, verified restaurants, fully described dishes, or model accuracy. Read the dated counts and definitions (JSON).

Mission

Love Salone builds technology to represent food as people experience it, including overlooked cuisines, and help people discover, share, and make decisions about what they eat.

Vision

We envision better food understanding that respects culture, strengthens community, and can inform carefully designed future research.

Boilerplate

Company descriptions for coverage and partner conversations.

One sentence

LOVE SALONE, L.L.C. builds TasteTwins, a native mobile app with an iPhone build in private testing and an Android build in active development.

One paragraph

LOVE SALONE, L.L.C. is an applied AI company rooted in Sierra Leone and based in Maryland. Founded in 2023 and majority-owned by Founder & CEO Melinda Arnold, it builds TasteTwins, a native mobile app that learns what a person likes at the level of the individual dish rather than the cuisine and connects people whose taste overlaps. The iPhone build is in private testing; an Android build is in development. Co-Founder & CTO Corey Arnold leads product engineering.

Related development work

The Gauntlet is a Love Salone 3D game in development for iOS and Android with a planned connection to TasteTwins. That connection is planned and not yet built. See the game development evidence.

SOS The Fairways is an iOS app plus a web moderator workspace; Android is planned. Explore SOS The Fairways.

Assets

  • TasteTwins wordmark (PNG, transparent). It is dark; on a dark background, invert it — that is what this site does.
  • App icon (PNG).
  • Interface screenshots: the images on the home page and its color gallery are genuine captures from an iPhone 17 Pro simulator build, taken October 9, 2026, showing sample content. Higher-resolution originals on request.

You may use these to illustrate coverage of the company. Please don’t alter the wordmark’s proportions or colors beyond inverting it for contrast, and please don’t use our marks in a way that implies we endorse a product or publication.

Claims we ask you not to make

We keep an internal register of what we can and cannot substantiate, and the following have all been asserted about products like ours before. None of them is true of this one.

  • It is not genetic. “Taste DNA” is our name for learned preferences. There is no DNA test, no sample and no genetic data. This is the single most common misreading and we would be grateful if you did not repeat it.
  • It is not a medical or clinical tool and does not diagnose, treat, or prescribe a diet. It has not been through a designed clinical study and we do not describe it in health-outcome terms.
  • It is not validated. Matching is a development capability. We are not publishing a measured accuracy figure or a validated study result.
  • The catalog is not in the millions. The real figures are above and they are modest.
  • Nothing is anonymized beyond what we claim. Taste data is protected by access controls and encryption, not by cryptographic anonymization. The privacy policy is precise about this and it is worth reading before writing about our privacy posture.
  • No research data has been shared. The academic and public-health program is a design goal. No dataset has gone to any partner.

The demo

The interactive demo on this site is a browser simulation with invented people and venues and deliberately simplified scoring. It is a good way to see the interface and a bad basis for describing the product’s capability. If you want to see the real thing, ask and we will walk you through it.

Development updates

  • August 30, 2026: recorded catalog snapshot of 1,475 places, 956 menu items, and 2,005 image records.
  • August 31, 2026: native simulator interface captures with sample content, used on this website.
  • September 11, 2026: founder information and public biography wording updated.
  • October 9, 2026: website screens refreshed from the current iPhone build.
  • October 2026: accepted into NVIDIA Inception.

Company development milestones · What support enables · Founder profiles and portraits

Interviews

Love Salone’s CTO, Corey Arnold, is available for interviews on dish-level taste modeling, the challenges of representing underrepresented foodways, and the engineering behind TasteTwins. Email hello@tastetwins.app.

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