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.
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.
Major_Grooves|11 years ago
I can think of more than a few apps that are more useless.
achompas|11 years ago
minimaxir|11 years ago
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_ziOBmn5BY...
NYC: https://www.icloud.com/iw/#numbers/BAKlTrL5ohjtIDpPkrOB3UW9G...
pzaich|11 years ago
VLM|11 years ago
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.
waylandsmithers|11 years ago
These "pay attention to me" type apps all seem to do well.
nathos|11 years ago
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.