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Dennis crowley who led that effort had a difficult time getting his marauder map like vision of the places+people going, not for lack of trying. He was at a NYC event describing his experience. First he tried dogeball which google bought and did not do much with it. He lefy and started FSQ. He mentioned that eventually FSQ pivoted to enterprise as the swarm/checkin like features were not making business sense, it was also copied by FB, Yelp which is when traffic moved away from FSQ's app to those. But FSQ always had a higher committment to location privacy and still does(remember cambridge analytica and all those NYT articles on location tracking)

Dennis is trying something new now, which is true(to him) and to the original vision of Marauder's map and FSQ. He has been on the dogeball train since a long time and hats off to his commitment.