SF founder’s underground Gen Z app boots TikTok, Temu from top of download charts

“I am no longer a one-hit wonder,” tweeted Tiffany Zhong, on the morning of July 3. 

Zhong, the 27-year-old founder of noplace (yes, the name is all lowercase), a MySpace-styled social media app for Gen Z, posted a screenshot of the Apple app store, next to a selfie of herself screaming. Noplace ranked number one for free iPhone apps.

“[It’s] an amazing feeling,” she told The Standard. 

“Take that, Temu,” tweeted Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit, in reply to Zhong’s post. “Such a vibe. Congrats.” Noplace’s release knocked the Chinese shopping app into second place, followed by social media giants Threads, TikTok, and Google. (Ohanian co-hosted the “Probably Nothing” podcast with Zhong a few years back).