Foursquare Co-Founder Talks About Needed Improvements

He spoke of creating a “hybrid check-in” model where the phone would recognize when you’ve entered an establishment that you previously visited and ask you if you’d like to check in there.

Foursquare co-founder and CEO Dennis Crowley spoke at Girls in Tech event in San Francisco. There he talked about Foursquare’s improvements in the coming months. He even promised to make the app go faster.

Crowley called Foursquare’s current check-in process “clunky and heavy.” Crowley admitted that it took him 20 seconds to check in at the event when it should have taken five.

He spoke of creating a “hybrid check-in” model where the phone would recognize when you’ve entered an establishment that you previously visited and ask you if you’d like to check in there.

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