Hipster.com, the photosharing app to shutdown on Feb 16th - Magzium

shravya | On 07, Feb 2013

Hipster.com a photosharing app that was acquired by AOL in March,2012 is all gearing up to shutdown its services. Mails are being sent to all its registered users telling them that they should save any postcards (Hipster’s term for posted images) by that date, or they will be deleted, along with all other user data.

Though Hipster has picked up around 5,00,000 users its decision to close it down comes due to quite a few reasons. Most important being

The dominance of other photosharing apps
Financial considerations
Growth of the site

AOL is trying to relocate its key talent from Hipster to its other projects while the founder Doug Ludlow started his new venture the Little Book Club for children’s books.

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