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Applied to yc with this idea couple years ago, cool to see it in production. Sharing a loyalty card with a group of friends (i.e. when anyone makes a purchase everyone gets a stamp) was one of the social features we were excited about, I'm interested to see what they come up with.

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Five Stars Card (http://www.fivestarscard.com/) got funded by YC this year.

I see the Five Stars Card badge everywhere here in the Bay Area.

Punchd has been around awhile. I've still got the original app on my phone from before they were acquired by Google.

They went through the classic "Oh, we got bought by Google so we're closing doors for an ambiguous amount of time before maybe reappearing again later" phase that it seems most Google acquisitions go through.

In that time, the Five Stars guys have really gotten traction. I don't know if that paves the way for Punchd or not, but I thought it was a great idea before Google bought it, and apparently, so did Google.

there's so many of these google acquisitions doing the 'disappear' thing that when they do resurface we've almost all forgotten and all is new again. haha. Maybe that's the point.

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