While Pinterest is taking the female world by storm, newly founded Gentlemint<a href="http://gentlemint.com/">Gentlemint</a> is creeping up with numerous men requesting to be invited to the site. is creeping up with numerous men requesting to be invited to the site. Gentlemint is creeping up with numerous men requesting to be invited to the site.

The site is a virtual pin board similar to Pinterest. Users can post photos or links to things that may interest them. All men, and even women, are invited to post on the site as long as the posts are “manly.”

Glen Stansberry and Brian McKinney, co-founders of the recently launched website, started Gentlemint just for fun and to see how long it would take to make it as popular a site as Pinterest.

“My wife is really big into Pinterest, so when I checked it out, I realized that I wanted something I’m interested in,” Stansberry said. “I wanted the man’s version.”

Stansberry and McKinney spent 12 hours in one day and built the entire website.

“It was a challenge, but it was fun,” Stansberry said. “Our families have been very supportive of our new adventure with Gentlemint.”

The co-founders have to find time to work on the site because they both currently have jobs in web design in Lawrence.

“We both still have our (9 a.m. to 5 p.m.) jobs,” Stansberry said. “I work on the site in the mornings mostly because I’m a morning person, but I also work a lot of night hours.”

Even with all of the work Stansberry and McKinney have put into developing Gentlemint, they have been surprised with how the popularity of the website has increased in a short amount of time.

“We launched the site (and) within the first few days we had to stop registration due to all the media attention drawing people to the site,” Stansberry said. “We didn’t know it was going to be this big, this soon.”

For Stansberry, it’s exciting to see what others are putting on the site. He hopes to see the site continue to grow and thrive.

Gentlemint connects to Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus and users can sift through pages of entertaining pictures and articles and vote on their favorites.

The website is also beginning to catch wind with some of the students at Baker University.

“I would be interested in it because the site showed some interesting photos of a lot of different manly things, which I like,” junior Ryan Smart said.

Freshman Michael Hanman believes that he can use Gentlemint to search for subjects related to his hobbies.

“I think it can be a good site for men-related things and to relate to one another with hobbies and things like that,” Hanman said. “I would most likely post things I’m interested in, like sports or other activities, and things I’ve done or like.”