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Justin Kadis

Foursquare Trip Tips - Collect and share travel recommendations from friends.

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Dennis Crowley
Maker
I love that we made this. Simple, elegant and 100% fueled by feedback/interest/support from our user community! Thanks for all the nudging, everyone! :)
Benjamin Netter
Hey @dens! I've been an heavy foursquare user since 2009. I feel you totally left lists apart for a few years so this is interesting. Three questions though: 1°) are you guys finally working on lists again? 2°) is lists going to be a separate app? would make sense to me. 3°) isn't that admitting foursquare as a platform is failing?
Nathen McVittie
@dens Any roadmap to include auto suggests based on history and interests to get the list going?
Dennis Crowley
Maker
@nathenmcvittie We actually have *another* prototype in the works that does that :) We may merge them at some point. It was important to get this "crowdsourced" one out because so many people were asking for it!
Dennis Crowley
Maker
@benjaminnetter 1. Yes, though thinking of them as a much bigger part of 4SQ 2. Probably not. 3. Huh? There's 100k developers using our API, including plenty of A-List customers (Apple, MSFT, Twitter, Pinterest) building it into their products. If anything, our API / dev platform is exceeding all expectations.
Justin Kadis
Hunter
In Oct. 2015, a friend was visiting London with his wife. He asked me for recommendations for places to go while there. I looked through my Foursquare history and put together a list of places and tips for him. I forwarded the email to @dens with a feature request I had in mind: the ability to create a private city guide for a friend. He wrote back: "we are knee deep on working on something like this right now. stay tuned." Today with the launch of Trip Tips, Foursquare users can enter their destination, add a description, and share a link with friends to get recommendations. Well done Foursquare team!
Shaun Tollerton
Started using Trip Tips to plan an upcoming trip and it's been working great. Friends have already added in some killer places. https://foursquare.com/trip-tips... I do see a grander vision for plans overall. Plans that are smart and can be generated on the fly. I wrote about this here: https://medium.com/@tollerton/my... Looking forward to seeing more from Foursquare.
Dennis Crowley
Maker
@tollerton Awesome -- be sure to let us know how it works out!
Tyler Swartz
It’s surprising that this new tool is only as powerful as how many friends you have on FB and TWTR that want to give you advice. I was hoping that it would aggregate top check-in locations for the city I'm traveling to and pull out “tips” from the comments that people leave from check-ins.
Dennis Crowley
Maker
@tylerswartz That's kind of what Foursquare does *anyway* if just open the app in, say, Barcelona. We wanted to do something a little more social with this one.
Andreas Pizsa
Very helpful! I'm going to Barceolna, posted this on FB and got great tips from friends :)
Dennis Crowley
Maker
@andreaspizsa Awesome, let us know how it works out!
Nabeel Hyatt
I do this in an ad hoc manner with Lists right now and it's my favorite hidden hack on Foursquare. Love that it's turned into a feature.
Dennis Crowley
Maker
Saadat Qadri
Awesome, I've been waiting for this for YEARS. I usually post a message on Facebook when I'm traveling to a city and ask for recommendations, but then I have to go through each of the comments and see the reviews on TripAdvisor/Foursquare. Having the recommendations built into Foursquare is just perfect.
Dennis Crowley
Maker
Kevin Mullett
I like the idea, but... 1 - I don't like that I can't delete a trip request once on step 3 2 - I think step two's button should be "finish" or "go" or something other than "next", because it is the final step. Maybe it's just me, but I assumed that there would be a final review on step 3. 3 - Since this is part of the 4sqr system, it should know I've already been to "Death Valley" and should show people places I've already checked in there. And maybe show me places friends have already been, reviews, and pictures. 4 - It asks if I want to share on social channels, but where is this showing up? On my 4sqr feed?
Sam Huleatt
Long time Foursquare fan and this looks awesome! Two requests on lists I've made before and still relevant here 1) users like myself should not be capped out on the number of lists we make. I currently cannot add new ones because I have exceeded my capacity (~30) 2) when a place goes out of business it seems to be eliminated from database/my history as though it never existed. When returning to a city years later, it's still nice to have the record of the place and it's location -- even if it's now a new business.