Bizzy Is No More

Bye bye, Bizzy

​Barely a month ago some bloggers were proposing that Foodspotting and Bizzy were in a battle for food-based social-mobile-local supremacy. Now the two start ups have taken dramatically different paths: Bizzy is shutting down, while Foodspotting, which we covered in depth here, has just passed the one million download mark.

According to founder Gadi Shamia, "ultimately Bizzy did not attract the number of users it needed to sustain itself in the long run."  In the hierarchy of needs of a consumer-mobile start-up, cash is oxygen and users are water. It's hard to live very long without both.

The firm promises to provide export functionality for its users so people won't lose the content and history they've created over time, which we applaud them for. Taking care of your customers, even at the end, is a sign of great maturity and concern for the value others tried to help create.
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