Caterina Fake, who co-founded Flickr along with her husband Stewart Butterfield in 2004, has announced her plans to join a fledgling new startup called Hunch. Flickr is one of the web’s most popular photo-sharing sites, and was acquired by Yahoo in 2005 for $35 million. Since then, Flickr has been one of Yahoo’s most successful properties, but Fake left the company in June as part of the executive exodus from the struggling search giant.
In her blog post on the matter, Fake says that she will be joining Hunch as Chief Product Officer. Details about the New York-based startup are very slim at this point, and Fake’s description doesn’t shed much light on the matter:
“What is Hunch? Well, as you might assume, it is a consumer internet application, it will have a lot of user participation, and it is more than a little fun. Beyond that, we’re still making it up.”
Beyond that nebulous description, Fake offers few details beyond stating that Butterfield won’t be involved with the project.
sounds like a community generated prediction site.
Hunch - go figure
Prediction site? I guess i could be a Yahoo Answer type of thing.
I guess it is a place where rumours are first revealed.
should be interesting to see what Hunch has in store..
http://blabtech.blogspot.com
NIce, But What is Hunch, I know huch, a mobile service provider but What is hunch?
The occurrence of the word “beyond” in this posting is beyond everything I’ve ever seen before.
Flickr was revolutionary. I look forward to seeing what she comes up with next.
Lets see what’s she going to do next
a version of yahoo shine?
its going to be a mind reader application. Just enter your name and age, it will read your mind. lol
Hi Jason, “Flake’s description” Fake, not Flake….
And what does Caterina the Real do?
Lord, I hate foreigners that don’t understand american culture, yet think they have some sense of innovation and/or creativity.
Also, Engineers are the worst product people on the planet. They know everything, and want to be idea people, yet they will never join with others, even if the product is sound. Fucking ridiculous. People should just know their place and qualities/
I can only imagine Hunch will do great things.
1. The internet was invented by ‘a foreigner’
2. America is a land populated by ‘foreigners’
3. Since when did neheads tolerate racism?
I think its more a case of you getting off our internet fool
>>The internet was invented by ‘a foreigner’
You’re an idiot. He was American…of course. The US ARMY DARPA’s was the world’ first usage, did you expect anything different. Wishing otherwise doesn’t make it true.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinton_Cerf
cool domain name though..must be expensive
Cool domain or doomed for failure? Should’ve chosen hun.ch. Or hnchr.
Caterina… hope this project also becomes as good as flickr.com…
and then some big company comes an acquires it 
A “fledgling new startup,” eh? As opposed to all those other types of startup…
I’ve never even heard of flickr… But sounds interesting
How does one fake join a new startup?
shouldn’t the site have been called hnch.com?
Interesting that this is the second CF-affiliated startup mentioned on techcrunch in the past week (the other was etsy.com) - both in NYC. Have they relocated there? More importantly, is NYC becoming a small hub for consumer-oriented startups, finally living up to the potential that exists in a city with loads of creative talent, ostensible access to capital, proximity to advertising and branding giants, and a reputation for being the launching pad of new trends in the u.s.? Or am I just being hyperbolic?
Dude I really hope so.
she got rob with flickr for 35 million
but hunch i dont see it being all that special
$35 million ? Where’d you get that?
I thought it was $7m.
Acquired: March 1, 2005 by Yahoo! for $35M in Cash
That’s not right. No way is that right.
says so on the webnet here
http://www.crunchbase.com/company/flickr
so must be true
It wasn’t $35M
so you calling crunch base liars lol
agree with aperson and i’m calling crunchbase a liar.
I am still about 90% certain that it was like $7m-10m (I trust the person who told me).
They were hurting real bad when yahoo came calling. Bandwidth was killing them.
Maybe there were nice long term incentives.
Someone early on leaked a huge number and then everyone else just used that info.
35M??? And you have to work still? You was robbed.
If it was only like 7 - 10MM like folks say, ya think you should still be able to practice guitar instead of go to work every day. Weird.
You sold your startup, you won. Why go work again??
god…. caterina hunch. such a fox. if only she wasn’t hunched up with that other flickr guy - i’d hunch her the right way. Alas, it will never happen… so I’ll just be hunching over my laptop.
I wish them good luck.
I believe that she will do it again with success.
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