SF News Horrible People Trying To Launch Yelp For People In an age in which you can write reviews of your bus line and join a dating app exclusively for the tech and business elite, it only stands to reason that someone would
SF News There's An Absurd War Happening Between On-Demand Valet Parking Apps First there was MonkeyParking, which turned out to be totally illegal. Then last summer we heard about Zirx, the on-demand valet app which provided "agents" to park your car anywhere in SoMa for
SF News New Service Turns Random Stanford Students Into 'Nerd' TaskRabbits Stanford isn't just a stellar institution of higher learning. It's a sterling brand, with amazing alums as ubiquitous as Cardinal sweatshirts. And now harnessing the school's star power is a service called Nerd,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF-Based Startup Chefs Feed Hopes To Be The Anti-Yelp About three and a half years ago, local restaurant publicists and brothers Jared and Steve Rivera decided to launch an app that collected the food recommendations of chefs the idea being that who
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another Restaurant Reservation/Concierge App Enters The SF Market Called Reserve Reserve, a new app that has recently launched in New York, Boston, and LA, launches today in SF offering the chance of last-minute reservations at places like Foreign Cinema and flour + water for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Is Munchery Breaking The Law By Storing Food In Idling Refrigerated Trucks? [Updated] It appears that swiftly growing prepared-food startup Munchery is, like some other startups, breaking some laws in order to do business here in S.F. As Uptown Almanac reports, in addition to collecting
SF News Facebook To Launch Secret-Esque App For Anonymous Trolling Facebook has been a little too much in the news lately, but here goes: The company that just a couple of weeks ago was insisting that everyone could only use their legal names
SF News Dubai Cops To Become Glassholes Dubai police officers are about to look like that Glasshole your friends like to mock in SF bars thanks to Google Glass. Reuters is reporting that the Dubai boys in blue are going
Arts & Entertainment New Terrible Dating App Dubbed 'Tinder Without the Poor People' by Eric Wuestewald Let's be honest: Even in a city with the second highest percentage of millionaires in the country, finding that special someone can be exhausting. You've tried the yacht parties, the
SF News How Many Dash-Mounted Phones Are Too Many? (This Guy's Got 5) Signs we have reached peak-app? Cabbie in SF running 5 dash mounted phones pic.twitter.com/WVycnmkGuN— Thomas Purves (@tpurves) September 2, 2014 This tweet from Thomas Purves, who describes himself as both
SF News Now In S.F., Eccentric Former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Is Launching An Audio-Tour Company Ousted Groupon founder Andrew Mason, now 34, has relocated to San Francisco, lost 30 pounds, and since last fall he's been working on a new venture: Detour. It's a mobile app, currently in
Arts & Entertainment 10 Tech Tips For The Ultimate Outdoor Adventure Earlier this summer, my friend and I started something we call Uber hikes, which is exactly what it sounds like: We drive to a trailhead, walk as far as we like, and then
SF News S.F. City Attorney Orders Cease And Desist for Mobile Parking Apps On Monday morning, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera ordered a halt to Monkey Parking—an iPhone app that allows users to auction off public, street parking spaces to fellow smartphone users. The
SF News Public Parking Spaces Just Got Less Public With New App A new app, cutely christened MonkeyParking, allows drivers to auction off their prime public parking spots in San Francisco to the highest bidder. Kudos to those of you who want to park your
Arts & Entertainment Never Get a Street Sweeping Ticket Again, Thanks to MetroMile This post is brought to you by MetroMile. Know what? Owning a car is a labor of love. There's gas, insurance and the unyielding plague of vague parking signs. You might even ask
SF News BART Police Creating Smartphone App For Reporting Bad Behavior Dirty business is not uncommon on BART, unfortunately. So BART Police would like to make it easier for you, the smartphone-carrying, eagle-eyed public transit rider to report any crimes, illegal activity, or suspicious
SF News Facebook Announces Paper: A New App To Consume Your Attention Thursday morning the social networking behemoth announced Paper, a new app meant to rearrange the way you consume news. Or your Facebook news feed, at least. The app, which started as a replacement
Arts & Entertainment Photos: See Classic S.F. Movie Locations Then And Now The next time you're frustrated standing on the tourist-packed corner of Powell and Geary, take solace knowing you're in the same spot Tippi Hedren crossed in Hitchcock's The Birds. In fact, the next
Arts & Entertainment 'Atonement App,' Live Goats Coming To S.F. How are you preparing for the Jewish high holidays? Is it by taking a photo with a live goat and uploading your sins to an app? It is, isn't it. We just knew
Arts & Entertainment Zynga Is Pissed About Bang With Friends The latest invention catering to Generation Slut, Bang With Friends, is now the subject of a lawsuit from Zynga. The company claims its trademark on the "With Friends" thing has been infringed upon,
SF News Popular App Tinder Had a Huge Privacy Flaw, Now Fixed And in further proof that privacy barely exists anymore, a popular new hookup social media app turns out to have had a huge security flaw that was broadcasting your GPS location and all
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Google Google Apps Apps' Yes, it's less a palate cleanser than a main course of anti-gentrification, but Esta Noche drag star Persia's (probably NSFW) video "Google Google Apps Apps" might be just the afternoon brain tickler you
SF News New App Will Help You Deal With STD Paranoia A new app has just come out for the iPhone that gets you a quick answer from a panel of dermatologists as to whether that spot on your penis is herpes. And, you
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink There Is 'An AirBnB For Meals' Now Of course there is. This Sharing Economy thing — which is hotter than, like, food trucks right now — continues to turn every empty guest bedroom, unoccupied car seat and idle hand into something actually
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Let Vegansaurus Help You Find The Best Vegan Nearest You If you've read Vegansaurus, you know that a) it's rad and provides a critical voice to the seemingly clogged local food media landscape, b) their pink dinosaur mascot is just the cutest, and
