Arts & Entertainment Eff-ing In SF, Vol. 7: How Do Dating Apps Make Money? I'll admit I hadn't been swiping very carefully on Tinder when I got a match, so, as one does, I went back to look at her profile. "Let's match and never message each
SF News Horrifying Embarcadero Crash Involved Luxe Valet Driver Remember this awful collision at Embarcadero and Bryant last month involving that BMW that had to be pried open with the jaws of life? As CNet is reporting, the other vehicle, the Jeep
SF News SFFD Urges You To Narc On Gasoline Delivery Startups The idea of never having to go to the gas station again is an appealing one — think electric, exhaust-free cars whisking you around a city that is suddenly just a bit less smoggy.
Arts & Entertainment Instagram Is Testing Out A New, Whiter Look Instagram сменил дизайн на чёрно‑белый#эфир https://t.co/HPbevQcl4M pic.twitter.com/TC6aPAKKlc— The Village (@villagemsk) April 27, 2016 Your Insta might look a little different soon, according to a leaked
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Amazon Prime Now And FIVE Other New Food Delivery Startups Enter Crowded Local Market At this point, San Francisco needs another food delivery app about as much as we need another Super Bowl, but that isn't stopping a new gaggle of startups from entering the fray. As
Arts & Entertainment Eff-Ing In SF, Vol. 6: Completely Forget About Your Girlfriend With Automated Gift Delivery "Roses are red, violets are blue, and we'll send them both to your girlfriend for you." Okay, while not in those exact words, that's the basic pitch behind a suite of services such
Arts & Entertainment New App Wants To Be The Airbnb For Hot Tubs, Backyards Have we reached peak app in this our pretty clearly bubbly tech economy of 2016? Some people are still going to tell you no, but I'm here to tell you, and them, about
Arts & Entertainment UC Berkeley Study Reveals How To Get More Action On Tinder April showers bring weekend nights staying home and swiping on Tinder, so the timing is right for an academic study published this week analyzing what types of profile picture poses and body language
SF News The On-Demand/Shut-In Economy Is Definitely Slowing Down, If Not Dying With the shuttering of SpoonRocket last week, the recent news that Instacart was slashing its fees and commissions to drivers, and the December closure of rideshare also-ran Sidecar, there's been plenty of talk
SF News Supervisors Use Self-Deleting Message App To Bypass Public Records Laws Former Mayor Willie Brown once joked to a colleague, or so the New York Times writes, that the "e" in "email" stood for "evidence." Only, he probably wasn't joking. Now, in the political
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SpoonRocket Shuts Down On Same Day That UberEats Launches Standalone App On-demand meal delivery service SpoonRocket announced today that it is shutting down, effective immediately. The Berkeley-based company, reports TechCrunch, was unable to secure additional funding and when a last-ditch effort at negotiating an
SF News We Tried Peeple (AKA 'That Yelp for People App') So You Don't Have To Back when the “Yelp for People” app Peeple was announced in September, public reaction was so profoundly negative that SFist couldn’t help but be intrigued. This week Peeple actually arrived in the
Arts & Entertainment Kanye West Says He's $53 Million In Debt, Asks Zuckerberg For $1 Billion Kanye West had another of his seemingly manic, barely coherent Twitter meltdowns over the weekend in which he admitted to having "$53 million in personal debt," and then performed a millionaire's version of
SF News Satirical App To Report Homeless Mistaken For Genuine A website satirizing the Bay Area's ongoing belief that technology can solve everything apparently hit a little too close to home this week. The app, which purportedly provides users a way to document
SF News App Promises To Drive A Fuel Truck To Your Car And Fill It Up So You Don't Have To So, it has come to this. A new app launched this week which promises to drive a gas truck to you in order to fill up your car — wherever you happen to be.
SF News App Promises Faster Oakland 911 Service, For A Price According to the FCC, 70 percent of 911 calls are now placed from wireless phones. Understandably, that percentage is only growing. But whereas landlines can provide emergency services dispatchers with quick location details,
Arts & Entertainment NSFW Video: New App Will Bring In Your Postmates Order, Spoon It Into Your Mouth The greatest problem posed to the able-bodied by our current state of on-demand instant gratification, posits this video from Funny or Die, is that it's just so godamn much work, like, answering the
SF News Use Tinder? You Have A Secret Internal Desirability Rating! Sean Rad, the 29-year-old CEO of Tinder who now infamously didn't know the meaning of the word "sodomy", now tells Fast Company he has an "above average" desirability rating. What's this? Internally, it's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Mysterious Startup Is Trying To Disrupt SF's Pizza Game (And It May Be Working) A San Francisco startup has dived head first into the all important and contentions world of pizza. Attempting to meld super fast delivery, high quality pizza, and ease of ordering into a single
SF News Brain Drain: Game App Lumosity Will Pay $2 Million For 'Unfounded' Cognitive Benefit Claims Lumosity, a series of brain-training games founded in 2005 and based right here in the App-alachia of San Francisco, has agreed to pay $2 million for making false claims that its many offerings
SF News Tinder CEO Sean Rad: A Case Study In Why 29-Year-Old CEOs Shouldn't Run Their Mouths A hilarious profile published Wednesday in London's Evening Standard raises a lot of questions about Tinder CEO Sean Rad's intelligence, and his fitness to be a CEO not to mention their PR person's
SF News Muni Mobile App Now Available For Your Downloading Pleasure No doubt you marked your calendars for next week, which was reported as the first to download the Muni mobile payment application (for your cell phone). Not so! Yep, Christmas came early this
SF News Sorry Bros, <i>Fight Club</i>-Esque App 'Rumblr' Is A Hoax Like Uber, but for street fights. What could possibly go wrong? Supposed brawling app Rumblr billed itself as "an app for recreational fighters to find, meet, and fight other brawl enthusiasts nearby" and
SF News 'Yelp For People' App Changes Course After Death Threats, Now Just Sounds Like LinkedIn After inciting the wrath, and occasional death threats, from the entire internet last week, the founder of that Peeple app dubbed the "Yelp for people" because it would allow everyone to review everyone
SF News Today In Irony: Founder Of People-Reviewing App Does Not Enjoy Her Negative Reviews Julia Cordray, one of the two founders of that ill-conceived Peeple app that was announced this week that would allow everyone to rate and review everyone in their lives for all to read,
