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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-heav...

[2] http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/04/27/teru-kuwayama-...

Exactly what I came here to say. No history of Instagram would be complete without any mention of Hipstamatic. Seems bizarrely absent.

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-hipstam...