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Re: Want to be a Hipster? Early invitations available.

#11

Post by pkamb » Tue, Jan 11, 2011, 10:55 PM UTC

Isn't the key to being a hipster never using anything marketed at hipsters?

Re: Want to be a Hipster? Early invitations available.

#12

Post by whatrocks » Tue, Jan 11, 2011, 10:58 PM UTC

Just want to say Doug is doing a nice job answering questions via email about the service behind his decidedly blank landing page. Thanks.

Re: Want to be a Hipster? Early invitations available.

#13

Post by dougludlow » Tue, Jan 11, 2011, 11:10 PM UTC

whatrocks wrote: post #12

Just want to say Doug is doing a nice job answering questions via email about the service behind his decidedly blank landing page. Thanks.

Thanks for the shout out. Just doing what I can!

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#14

Post by anigbrowl » Tue, Jan 11, 2011, 11:33 PM UTC

dougludlow wrote: post #4

anigbrowl wrote: post #3

This better be good with a name like that. Signed up.

Its going to be awesome. Thanks for signing up!

I don't like your access for 3 signups model, though. Since I have no idea what it is or who you are (other than my intuition that you're a nice guy), you're asking me to bet my standing with 3 others - and more importantly, their contact details - for an opportunity of unknown value at some unknown point in the future. Perhaps it will be awesome, perhaps I'll be splashed all over pathetic-wannabe.com. This is a risk I don't mind taking with my own email address, but which I'm unwilling to subject others to.

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#15

Post by Banekin » Wed, Jan 12, 2011, 12:11 AM UTC

pkamb wrote: post #11

Isn't the key to being a hipster never using anything marketed at hipsters?

I don't know, I find it (whatever it may be) to be refreshingly honest.

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#16

Post by new2 » Wed, Jan 12, 2011, 12:32 AM UTC

Check out all the cities available.

http://usehipster.com/cities

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#17

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 12, 2011, 2:04 AM UTC

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#18

Post by rwhitman » Wed, Jan 12, 2011, 2:32 AM UTC

danest wrote: post #9

I have been following http://usehipter.com when it was just for boulder, you can explore some of the stuff it has too offer from here. http://boulder.usehipster.com/explore The site is a question and answer site on what cool stuff there is to do unless they are going to pivot on their launch.

Thanks for that. Yea, basically looks like "Quora meets Foursquare". Hmm, pretty hard to maintain stealth when the back door is wide open on one city...

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#19

Post by steveklabnik » Wed, Jan 12, 2011, 3:16 AM UTC

My city is apparently too underground for Hipster.

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#20

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 12, 2011, 3:26 AM UTC

dougludlow wrote: post #5

jpr wrote: post #2

I liked you better when you were still underground.

We're still underground, for the time being. We'll be expanding the alpha test soon to new cities, so we wanted to make sure there are interested users for each new city.

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