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It's already our second version, so we do have a userbase already. Also, we don't only take your current location into consideration, but also your past location(s). Like that, you…

Thanks! Oh, right. That's our old blurp. Totally forgot about it. Will change it. Thanks a lot for checking us out

We built a "search engine" that lets you query opinion- and experience based information about the physical world. Human-to-human. It's something that Google, who is really good at…

It's scary how similar your story is to mine. I'm a Mechanical Engineer too (Master's), but am now the co-founder of a local-search iPhone app... I come originally from Mexico and …

He just inspired me to write this blogpost about our startup and Space. http://blog.localuncle.com/2012/03/21/localuncle-goes-to-spa... I really wish sometimes, I would've tried to…

Great app!

Thanks!!!

true!

Yup. - We give you the ability to ask about areas. LocalMind doesn't - We route your questions with some heavy tech in the background to the most adequate users on the system, in r…

Thanks! Well, we've only been featured for about 72h now. We're seeing that download rates are doubling daily. And on the first day we got over 1k downloads. You can do the math. P…

Thanks! Well, we've only been featured for about 72h now. We're seeing that download rates are doubling daily. And on the first day we got over 1k downloads. You can do the math. P…

You do need the app. Do you think it would be possible to build it via 4sq messaging system? We were looking into different options, but came to the conclusion that this was the on…

We're working on it. Main reason to launch US only was not to pull off a color.com type of #faillaunch. But expect LocalUncle to be available worldwide sooner than you think! Follo…

You're right. I guess that our excitement took over and I kinda forgot the HN etiquette for a moment.

We submitted our very first iPhone app (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/localuncle/id473554413?mt=8) about 3 weeks ago to the App Store and about 2 days ago we were featured in the …

Thanks for this really, really helpful advice! You are definitely right. We got lost in writing way too much text... We like our idea a lot and I guess that's why we wrote that muc…

Thanks for the feedback! We chose the domain cause it has a good ring to it and because it was still available... gotta be scrappy with startups. Do you like the product?

Thanks for the feedback! You mean that the blog is too text-heavy? Have you tried the product and you don't understand what it does?

Do you think our vision is now big enough?

you missed the point completely.your focus is too narrow. there are vast quantities of people on this planet who are working to solve the "real" problems that you mention. your arg…