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All of the articles talking about the genius of instagram’s filters seem to forget one the earliest popular iOS camera apps — Hipstamatic. It was released a yea

• virgil_disgr4ce 9y ago
  Exactly what I came here to say. No history of Instagram would be complete without any mention of Hipstamatic. Seems bizarrely absent.
• photoJ 9y ago
  it was wildly successful, had better filters, but really never got the social aspect. Today, its notable to point out that people like Teru [1,2], who shot with hipstimatic in Afghanistan on assignment now work for instagram. [1] https://www.npr.org/2011/07/27/138746071/foreign-policy-heavy-metal-in-hipstamatic https://www.npr.org/2011/07/27/138746071/foreign-policy-heav... [2] http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/04/27/teru-kuwayama-from-battleground-instagram.html http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/04/27/teru-kuwayama-...
• driftsumi-e 9y ago
  Yes. Systrom underpinning social and online mechanisms to what Hipstamatic already hit upon was the big inflection point that's being lost to history. https://www.fastcompany.com/3001994/no-filter-inside-hipstamatics-lost-year-searching-next-killer-social-app https://www.fastcompany.com/3001994/no-filter-inside-hipstam...