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How are Foursquare still going? Most useless app ever.

by diestl 12y ago

achompas 12y ago
Try using it as a terse alternative to Yelp, its verbose reviewers, and its shady review collusion.
Major_Grooves 12y ago
I've always found Foursquare quite useful from a venue discovery PoV, if not the whole "find where your friends are" angle. I can think of more than a few apps that are more useless.
waylandsmithers 12y ago
I couldn't agree more, but I also at one point thought "facebook, but ONLY status updates? That's dumb." These "pay attention to me" type apps all seem to do well.
- nathos 12y ago
  This really isn't what Foursquare is anymore. It's become a rather good location database & discovery platform. I never used it when it was "hot" (~2012), but in the past few months I've really come to like it for finding places (restaurants, etc.) & making lists. Also, their tools for making edits to the DB are quite impressive, and they do a great job of leveraging superusers to moderate those changes.
pzaich 12y ago
I found Foursquare to have by far the best meta-data (compared to Google maps, Yelp, TripAdvisor) when living abroad in Asia.
minimaxir 12y ago
Foursquare's data is pretty good, and their API limits are pretty fair. I've been able to make a list of bars in big cities such as NYC and rank them by rating using Foursquare data. SF: https://www.icloud.com/iw/#numbers/BAJgIU7STmBNBkW_ziOBmn5BYvI8QiEYKWKF/SF_Bars_By_Price_%26_Rating https://www.icloud.com/iw/#numbers/BAJgIU7STmBNBkW_ziOBmn5BY... NYC: https://www.icloud.com/iw/#numbers/BAKlTrL5ohjtIDpPkrOB3UW9GwkqmaziV2GF/NYC_Bars_By_Price_%26_Rating https://www.icloud.com/iw/#numbers/BAKlTrL5ohjtIDpPkrOB3UW9G...
VLM 12y ago
Meta observation: 4sq was a grind game, and aside from the addicted, grind games are the most fun ever, until they're not cool at all anymore and everyone always knew it. So you create an awesome successful grind game. Cool. Next step, either create a new grind game (and hope lightning strikes twice LOL), or find a new line of business to pivot into, or go out of business.

How are Foursquare still going? Most useless app ever.

by diestl 12y ago

How are Foursquare still going? Most useless app ever.

achompas 12y ago

Try using it as a terse alternative to Yelp, its verbose reviewers, and its shady review collusion.

Major_Grooves 12y ago

I've always found Foursquare quite useful from a venue discovery PoV, if not the whole "find where your friends are" angle. I can think of more than a few apps that are more useless.

waylandsmithers 12y ago

I couldn't agree more, but I also at one point thought "facebook, but ONLY status updates? That's dumb." These "pay attention to me" type apps all seem to do well.

nathos 12y ago
This really isn't what Foursquare is anymore. It's become a rather good location database & discovery platform. I never used it when it was "hot" (~2012), but in the past few months I've really come to like it for finding places (restaurants, etc.) & making lists. Also, their tools for making edits to the DB are quite impressive, and they do a great job of leveraging superusers to moderate those changes.

pzaich 12y ago

I found Foursquare to have by far the best meta-data (compared to Google maps, Yelp, TripAdvisor) when living abroad in Asia.

minimaxir 12y ago

Foursquare's data is pretty good, and their API limits are pretty fair. I've been able to make a list of bars in big cities such as NYC and rank them by rating using Foursquare data. SF: https://www.icloud.com/iw/#numbers/BAJgIU7STmBNBkW_ziOBmn5BYvI8QiEYKWKF/SF_Bars_By_Price_%26_Rating https://www.icloud.com/iw/#numbers/BAJgIU7STmBNBkW_ziOBmn5BY... NYC: https://www.icloud.com/iw/#numbers/BAKlTrL5ohjtIDpPkrOB3UW9GwkqmaziV2GF/NYC_Bars_By_Price_%26_Rating https://www.icloud.com/iw/#numbers/BAKlTrL5ohjtIDpPkrOB3UW9G...

VLM 12y ago

Meta observation: 4sq was a grind game, and aside from the addicted, grind games are the most fun ever, until they're not cool at all anymore and everyone always knew it. So you create an awesome successful grind game. Cool. Next step, either create a new grind game (and hope lightning strikes twice LOL), or find a new line of business to pivot into, or go out of business.