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Ask HN: Foursquare: Why check-ins in Swarm?

2 pointsby brandoncarlalmost 11 years ago
Dear Foursquare -<p>First off, I have great admiration for your company, how you handle your technology and your data science. I think you have much greater market potential with some of these features (specifically physical crowdsourcing and recommendation engines). With all of that said, I have a question about your branding.<p>Why did you move check-ins to Swarm rather than leaving them in Foursquare, and move all new features to Swarm? Anybody that I talk to about why they don&#x27;t use Foursquare says &quot;I don&#x27;t care about check-ins.&quot; To the public FOURSQUARE = CHECK-INS. Changing this takes months and millions of dollars. Why not, instead, say &quot;Swarm is our new product that takes care of &lt;new stuff&gt;&quot; and Foursquare maintains the check-ins.<p>Thanks!

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