The founder of Foursquare is having a hard time with it, but it is really going to stop. The Foursquare City Guide app will go offline later this year. You can still check into locations and become the mayor of a place because that’s done in the Foursquare Swarm app.
The Foursquare City Guide is being taken offline because the company wants to focus more on the Swarm app. Swarm is the app where you can find the basis of Foursquare: the one that ultimately started it all. Foursquare was always an app and web tool that allowed you to ‘check in’ at a location. If you were somewhere with your phone, you could, for example, indicate on Twitter (now X) that you were there. It was intended to bridge the gap between offline and online, with the idea that people would visit each other more in real life or otherwise start talking online about a location or topic.
Foursquare City Guide
Ten years ago, two apps were created from Foursquare. One is Swarm, which is how you know Foursquare. The City Guide was intended more as a kind of Lonely Planet with which you can get ideas about places to visit when you are in a certain city. Now that City Guide app is coming to an end. The app will be taken offline on December 15. Foursquare writes: “After many wonderful years of leaving tips and reviews together all over the world, we have made the difficult decision to say goodbye to the City Guide app …” The web version will remain online for a while, but how long is unknown.
Foursquare is doing well financially: it has more than $100 million in revenue. Now its original founder, Dennis Crowleynot really involved in the project anymore. He says he really loves old-school Foursquare and thanks the teams for all their years of work on the app and the hard core within the community that helped keep the City Guide online for so long.
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Source: www.bright.nl
