Meetro dies, but love lives on
Location-based social network tool Meetro is closing the doors. In the goodbye letter founder and CEO Paul Bragiel explained how a small community of users in Chicago wasn't enough — the company couldn't get much penetration in the markets in New York or San Francisco, where services like Dodgeball and Yelp have acquired large followings (though Dodgeball has since withered and Yelp isn't huge outside of the Bay Area). And the fact that users had to download software didn't help. But hey, one of Meetro's execs met a girl:
We had hundreds of active users and you could feel the buzz around it. We threw a few parties that continued to support the good mood all around. Hell, our CTO Sam even met his current girlfriend at one of them.