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“ I would be rest if I did n’t admit that I have been in a real Casimir Funk these last few day over this news,”writesFoursquare founder Dennis Crowley , speaking about the troupe ’s plan to sunset the Foursquare City Guide app later this year in favour of rivet on its handicap - in app Swarm . The move reverses Foursquare’sambitious 2014 decisionto split up its app into two dissimilar holding : one for exploration and uncovering and the other , Swarm , for apportion your location to find nearby protagonist .
The Foursquare app ’s closure , scheduledfor December 15 of this year , is n’t surprising . It ’s been a tenacious fourth dimension since Foursquare was verbalize about in the same breather as other social networks . When Foursquare launch , people were competing to become the “ city manager ” of their best-loved venue and were less concerned about the safety issues of apportion their real - time location online .
Still , Foursquare ’s original app had been a clever direction to search city and their offerings , as an early object lesson of how social net could leverage smartphones ’ position capabilities to progress an entirely fresh character of experience .
Now that peck of collected data that fuel the company ’s City Guide will vanish for its death users .
In an email sent to users , Foursquare write , “ After many howling years of leaving tips and reviews around the populace together , we ’ve made the tough decisiveness to say goodbye to the City Guide app … ” The app itself will shutter on December 15 , with the web edition to shortly follow , the email noted .
The move prompt Crowley to become a spot nostalgic about what it ’s like to say good-bye to a mathematical product he had worked on for so long .
In aposton Threads , the founding father compose , “ I have a really good blog post somewhere in me about ‘ the peril of fall in love with the companies you build & product you create , ’ but it ’s not the veracious time to write it . The ‘ neglect of FSQ ’s apps ’ story [ has ] been a drumbeat in my personal online experience for like 5 years now and I get it touch [ me ] more than I should ( aka : ‘ dude , just get over it ’ is easier said than done ) . ”
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While Foursquare the troupe continues to survive — Crowley notice it has over $ 100 million in revenue in his subsequent station — the focus of its efforts will now be on the check - in dower of the experience , not the City Guide .
He also takes the time to blackguard out the “ old - schooltime ” Foursquare consumer product , technology , and infrastructure teams for all their oeuvre over the class , as well as to the “ first-rate - exploiter ” biotic community that kept the app become this long .
“ I ’m genuinely funny what FSQ ( the company ) is go to do [ with ] Swarm , and will always be rooting for the team and Cartesian product , ” Crowley added .
The founding father is not the only one lamenting the closure . Other drug user and fans of Foursquare , both preceding and present , have post how they experience about the app ’s closure , describe it as a “ gut punch , ” “ lamentable , ” or just offering their“RIP”-stylecondolences .
Josh Williams , who previously co - founded Foursquare ’s main competitor , Gowalla , gave the app a prissy send - off as well , remarking on how different the web used to be at the time these apps were mainstream .
“ I know we can moan a lot about how the net used to be fun and this and that , but there ’s sure a truth to it . Our seeking for efficiency has robbed us of some joy , ” Williamswroteon Threads . “ I ’m still convert there are successful products to be made that connect multitude IRL , but it is a problematical road to walk . Foursquare made the web and our digital lives a much better place , ” he added .
Crowley is no longer involve with Foursquare in a full - time capacitance but still remains co - chair of the troupe ’s board . Instead , he has been work on “ something young ” since August , per LinkedIn .
