Interesting. Sadly apps like this will only be useful to those in big cities.

Interesting. Sadly apps like this will only be useful to those in big cities.

Doesn’t look like it’ll be that impressive. It doesn’t help that they called the app “Hipster”, either.

I’m personally too worried about Hipster having this much competition, I’d be more worried for Ask.com- The best marketer will be the victor, in my humble opinion.

Check out Babbleville (babbleville.com). It allows for more functions and is already available to use in Beta form. You can use it via the website or via the iPhone or Android app. A completely revamped version will be out in a few weeks.

Check out Babbleville (babbleville.com). It allows for more functions and is already available to use in Beta form. You can use it via the website or via the iPhone or Android app. A completely revamped version will be out in a few weeks.

dropped a pebble in water – created some wrinkles – face off.

Bullshit reporting. Location based Q&A… Get over your cliched reporting TC. It sounds shit when you start dancing like a peacock in front of Quora.

How will this effect Techcrunch’s investment in Quora?

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Ha. Anyone else notice the “there/their” typo when the video answers the taco question? Woopsies.

meh … can’t say I’m intrigued, and what a remarkably stupid name.

yeah.. the naming around the brand is all wrong.

Will the emos, hip hops, jesus lovers, mainstream, alt, blipster, relate to a hipster brand for local Q &A? I don’t think so. It’s such a heavily loaded term. I guess we’ll have to wait and see.

yeah.. the naming around the brand is all wrong.

Will the emos, hip hops, jesus lovers, mainstream, alt, blipster, relate to a hipster brand for local Q &A? I don’t think so. It’s such a heavily loaded term. I guess we’ll have to wait and see.

I guess we don’t have enough Q&A sites as it is.

Hopefully hipsters are better at making websites than they are at opening cans . . .

So it’s like a forum focused around different cities. How exciting.

So it’s like a forum focused around different cities. How exciting.

Great journalism. Thanks for finding out what they are going to do.

Enough giving these guys anymore publicity then they need. Too late trying to use a word that is about to fade in terms of “coolness”. Seems like TC is in bed with them and Quora

Shameless plug – http://www.vacationrelation.com <- adding social to travel

Enough giving these guys anymore publicity then they need. Too late trying to use a word that is about to fade in terms of “coolness”. Seems like TC is in bed with them and Quora

Shameless plug – http://www.vacationrelation.com <- adding social to travel

So who leaked this info? TC already knew what Hipster is about before even mentioning it.

“Suddenly people are talking about Hipster…Ok, let’s clarify that. A group of tech enthusiasts in San Francisco are talking about what Hipster might actually be…”

No, lets clarify further. Only Techcrunch is talking about Hipster. And I can see it coming – MC Siegler weighing in with “Hipster is Cool and You Should Like It” article, Alexia doing a “Hipster is, Like, Hip” article, some “guest writer” doing a 10,000 word advertorial on it, then as the Techcrunch hype machine mounts the inevitable “Wow Hipster is really exploding!” articles.

Man, I am really not looking forward to this.

“Hipster CEO Doug Ludlow has so far refused to say what Hipster is about”

So let me get this straight Mike….

You are actually PESTERING a *FAIL* for comments whilst ignoring ALL THE OTHER STARTUPS IN THE ENTIRE WORLD THAT ARE INFINITELY BETTER THAN THIS CRAP?

TechCrunch blogger know NOTHING. You are a BLOGGER_FAIL

This lame-assed-shit got flamed on YC and is a total *FAIL* How don’y you tech-gods not know this??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

How much are you being paid for this PR regurgitation TC?

Anyone sense another QUORA coming on?

Isn’t this how the car industry has survived…making knock-offs…lol

Welcome to the *next big thing* according to the (paid) techcrunch fools

Typical TC heroes…

Sorry, we only report PAID content here at TechMuncher

Don’t you fools get that YET?

Seems like this trend is becoming a good business strategy. Find existing businesses that are successful and not too complex and add location awareness, build a minimum viable product, and then do an invite only beta launch to build buzz. If it doesn’t work then rinse and repeat.

Ha! I would blame that on the annoying spelling corrector on the iPhone..keeps changing my words all the time. But I checked http://loqly.me. That looks like a true hybrid of Yelp + Quora + Ask.

Oh man! You totally spoiled our surprise!

Don’t worry, it’ll fade away in about 6 months, and the founders will walk away with their cash, start some other crap site, rinse and repeat.

I need to get a new washer. My washer is taking away my money!

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Was it sarcasm or do you really think TC is totally intrigued by this “stealth” startup?

Was it sarcasm or do you really think TC is totally intrigued by this “stealth” startup?

After all this, I really feel sorry for that poor chap who got fired for demanding a Macbook Air!

After all this, I really feel sorry for that poor chap who got fired for demanding a Macbook Air!

After all this, I really feel sorry for that poor chap who got fired for demanding a Macbook Air!

Blah blah blah QUORA blah blah blah STFU

The most amazing comment ever. Hipster probably will explode (perhaps BECAUSE of TechCrunch advertising it), but the trend TechCrunch follows with every one of these small startups that over a year grow to be a little less small (or sometimes huge) is hillariously predictable: Twitter, Quora, Zynga, Spotify, Groupon, Soluto, UJam, and more.

If Hipster gets closer to the size of the first 5 companies I mentioned, there will also inevitably be posts on “What Makes Hipster Different/Better than Loqly and Others?” and “A Different Take on Hipster: Why it Will Fail” (probably by Schonfeld or however you spell it).

Jokes aside though, Q&A is still hot and Local is the next logical step for Q&A services. It’s not surprising that Hipster is doing something Loqly was already doing. Over the next year, there will probably be several more local Q&As popping up. The real threat will come when existing Q&As that already have large user bases (like Quora) start doing Local. They could crush Hipster and Loqly before they even get off the ground.

It looks like they’re going after the big US cities first.

http://boulder.usehipster.com
http://sanfrancisco.usehipster.com
http://la.usehipster.com
http://miami.usehipster.com
http://ny.usehipster.com
http://boston.usehipster.com

Yeah this seems like yet another one of those SF-based startups that gets talked about on the blogs based in SF by people that live in SF. The rest of the world will most likely never hear of this startup.

Well, the pictures are nice at least. Although ny is actually newyork.usehipster.com
default (blahblah.usehipster.com) points back to the sf site

Interesting to see what happens. Good launch buildup so far!

They should integrate their portal to FB for better results.

http://www.oddities.us

I LOL’d!

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I checked out http://Loqly.me too. Since it uses Google, they claim that it supports all the cities in the world from day one and for them it is a matter of flipping that switch on. But they are choosing to do it in a controlled manner

I’m sorry, but when a company won’t tell you what their product or service does… it doesn’t entice me to want to use their product. Using secrecy to hype a product only works if your CEO is named Steve Jobs.

Don’t forget atlanta.usehipster.com!

Check out http://www.LOCQL.com, it’s a lcoation based QA came out from Startup Weekend.

Couldn’t this just be handled by Quora communities/interests?

I live in Austin, nothing but Hipsters, douche bags. They can be two years out of college but apparently know everything! And wear tight jeans and long facial hair. Its like a really smart Grizzly Adams at age 20.

No one ever complains about having too many Fast food restaurants in U.S. Why do you then complain about too many Q&A sites. Competition is healthy…the good ones win in the end. Whatever it is, these entrepreneurs should be respected no ridiculed for at least trying something knowing that they can fail.

Hypester.

Another interesting thing I noticed in the Loqly video is that they are focused on questions about businesses. You choose a business first and then ask your question. I really like this because this over time will end up accumulating F.A.Q for all businesses around you. Whereas, hipster just allows you ask an open ended question like quora/vark. i.e the questions have no other context other than your geolocation.

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lol so is a google buzz named hipster? lol

Oh boy, thank you Hipster, now my life is finally complete. The world is going to hell in a handbasket but no worries, we have location based Q and A, so thank you for that no need to actually solve any real world problems.

Yep, you’re quite right. I was going to edit the link but Disqus was having problems. I don’t think I’ll hold my breath for this to come to any Canadian cities, but it sure would be nice. Their website looks clean and I suspect the service will take off with such a memorable company name/domain name.

What is ask.com?

And how exactly do you know this to be the case?

As opposed to what, Google?

aye

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ausehipster.com

Hi

1. Can someone please tell me which tech enthusiasts are talking about it, so that I can get them to talk about a couple of other startups, seems like a good strategy

2. Techcrunch have to follow the Quora stampede with another quora linked post, after all its about driving traffic to the website, and it works, fair play to them.

Iqbal

So its Quora for fixed-gear bike and nu-retro barber shops?

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You can even see the site by yourself.. thanks google: http://boulder.usehipster.com/questions/im-lazy-who-delivers-beyond-pizza-but-ill-take-pizza-too

whats quora?

there was a point in the techcrunch post that there’s a variety of other startups doing this. and indeed, have been for years. it’s friggin hard to get people to use it.

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There is already a local Q&A website called askalo (ask a local) http://www.askalo.com/ where you can ask questions about any local topic and get answers from people with local knowledge. Why don’t you write about that????

[...] de tipul Augmented Reality (GoldRun), Social Games (MyTown, Shadow Cities) sau Q&A + LBS (Hipster) precum si altele ca Scvngr si Facebook Places, asa cum le puncteaza Alex Bleau in acest [...]

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Something much much cooler is coming to your city! Check it out at
http://www.tripflock.com/YourCity/

So now we know what usehipster.com is about but what about this new site called http://www.WOOZ.me? Any guesses on what this could be?

[...] the host of other location-based Q & A offerings, Gootip is also keen to point out that it isn’t a Hipster clone and that the company started [...]

[...] the host of other location-based Q&A offerings, Gootip is also keen to point out that it isn’t a Hipster clone and that the company started [...]

[...] the host of other location-based Q&A offerings, Gootip is also keen to point out that it isn’t a Hipster clone and that the company started [...]

[...] the host of other location-based Q&A offerings, Gootip is also keen to point out that it isn’t a Hipster clone and that the company started [...]

[...] the host of other location-based Q&A offerings, Gootip is also keen to point out that it isn’t a Hipster clone and that the company started [...]

[...] the host of other location-based Q&A offerings, Gootip is also keen to point out that it isn’t a Hipster clone and that the company started [...]

[...] has got their product out in the wild in full before their US-based rival. Ignoring the host of other location-based Q&A offerings, Gootip is also keen to point out that it isn’t a Hipster clone and that the company started [...]

[...] has got their product out in the wild in full before their US-based rival. Ignoring the host of other location-based Q&A offerings, Gootip is also keen to point out that it isn’t a Hipster clone and that the company started [...]