Seems like a more reliable metric would be take all nearby Yelp listings with no reviews and then remove any of those remaining that have any Foursquare/Instagram check-ins at all...
Avoid Humans: Your temporary respite from the masses
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Re: Avoid Humans: Your temporary respite from the masses
#52Pretty inaccurate for Sunnyvale CA. Among its list of local empty spots is a restaurant that's packed every time I go to it and a park that's always filled with parents with young children, senior citizens out walking, and impromptu pickup games of soccer & volleyball. I think this is more like "Avoid Foursquare and Instagram users", which may have some value to it anyway.
I'm in Vancouver and it's recommending Anton's Pasta Bar, which is pretty much the one place most famous for the impossibly long lines.
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#53I don't get it? It lists a nonexistent pub in the middle of my subdivision (the street name contains the word "Tavern", maybe it got confused), the local pool, and my HOA's mailing address as places to go to avoid people.
And when I click on any of those not-quite-real places, the map is in a seemingly random place. Tennessee, across the Potomac from me, or the west coast.
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#54World class nerd sniping.
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#55This seems very useful to me as a way to find places I haven't heard about through social media. Finding new places when you're a non-native can be difficult. Especially because my primary activity during finding new places is dating and I don't want to ask my date for some new place. :)
I think they should just rebrand their site to match the content.
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#56Pretty inaccurate for Sunnyvale CA. Among its list of local empty spots is a restaurant that's packed every time I go to it and a park that's always filled with parents with young children, senior citizens out walking, and impromptu pickup games of soccer & volleyball. I think this is more like "Avoid Foursquare and Instagram users", which may have some value to it anyway.
It recommended a nearby elementary school which at 10pm is a reasonable suggestion for me to avoid other people, if possibly creepy.
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#57It just listed every place to eat near me.
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#58Very inaccurate. It is listing the cookie cutter suburban neighborhood north of me as a farm, and someone's online retail store running from their home as a restaurant.
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#59At SFO airport, it recommends I go to any of the nearby shops. That's not even close to useful.
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#60If the app ever became popular the least frequented places would "flap" to become the most frequented places. :-) They would have to effectively load balance by displaying different location results to different users.