Secrets of the City

Hey everybody, It’s Matt.

It’s funny how all these Happyhour sites are popping up all over the place. Some them steal my database (thriftyhipster), some of them go a bit further and use the backbone and brand i worked for a year and just completely use it all the while locking me out of my own site.

It’s really funny, they think there is all this money to be made out there. Poor old thrifty Matt (who recently had the nerve to try to give me a flyer), the poor guy recently quit his job thinking he’s going to be living off his Happy Hour riches.

I’ve sat back for a year now, locked out of my own site and smiled, uncaring. But now I suppose it’s time for the source to speak out.

To Thrifty Matt: You, I and everybody else knows that you stole my Database. There were errors I built in there, wrong adresses, wrong city locations, what do you know they ended up wrong on your page too? Rest assured if you ever turn a dime on your endeavor, which would be so cool if you opened you mind a bit and though of what else you could do with a catchy name like that, you will hear from me.

To Sherrise: (st.paul) I asked you to help me with the web portion of Mplshappyhour so long ago. When I asked you to get the domain name for me and i told you i would pay you back, that is a legal contract for you to but it for me. The domain is mine, the brand is mine. You have no right to change the password and lock me out from updateing it. If you would have ever helped me after setting up the original layout you MIGHT have some claim to the site. But you did not, and you do not. Kirk and I worked hundreds of hours on it while you did nothing.
I never made a penny on the site and that is the way it should be.

To both of you: Happyhour was never meant to make money when I started it, a nice dream, yes, but it’ll never make you a dime.

Communication is the backbone of good relations. There were several attempts made to get in contact with you that you ignored. You brought this upon yourself Mr. Mpls, why is it such a surprise that this is happening? Typically when a project is launched and considered a joint venture with several persons involved, no matter how large or small of a part those persons play, it is regardless a joint venture. I think this applies especially when said persons involved have been promised an equal piece of the dream. Offering to reimburse and actually doing it are not the same thing – I know this may be a surprise to you. Honestly I believe that your taking responsibility for ‘all of the hard work’ that was done is conceited and rather childish. The site was left dormant long before the passwords were changed – something I think you’re well aware of. If the site doesn’t make any money it’s due to your lack of motivation to have it be anything other than a way to promote yourself oh, grand ‘King of the Hipsters.’ Really the only thing you were ‘branding’ was yourself. It seems that an honest attempt to turn a ‘nice dream’ into reality is something which you find threatening as it detracts from you and your image. Kudos to Sherrise for actually doing something with what started out as a joint venture and turned into one man’s dream of living immortality. So, before you crucify anyone else perhaps you should put down that giant cross you’re carrying around.

I think both of you are being childish. It’s not as if the average reader of this site cares about your squabbles and wants to read paragraphs of you bickering.

shit, it must be 5:00 somewhere. take it outside guys, please?

The public speaks… shut up, Matt… nobody cares.

Actually, i’m interested to finally find out what happened with that site. But now will whoever does have the passwords please remove the featured bar / restaurant..? I don’t think any of that information applies anymore.

Yeah but it’s tough to have a partnership when your designer disapears before the official launch of the website, and never made time to help me with the site again. I got some really good help along the way and if my designer was a part of it, well it would all be a different story…

I deliberately took a step back about a year ago as everyone well knows. The site really doesn’t matter that much to me anymore, perhaps it never did.

We planned the whole deal during a couple happy hours (of course). Sherrise did some design work, registered the domain, and hosted the site for us. Matt did some promotion, made t-shirts, flyers, organized parties, and was the all-around face man. They pulled me in to do some hacked-to-shit php and mysql code to get the site running. It was fun for a few months, then everyone got busy with real life, and as anyone can see, the site hasn’t been touched in almost a year. With that, I insist everyone shut up and go drink.

This is awesome.

Yawn: intransitive verb – to open the mouth wide and take a long deep breath, usually involuntarily, because of tiredness or boredom….

Really, you can stop now.

Cheers to Kirk! Y’all need a stiff one, a drink that is!

so, about that blimp…

I am the hipster king…I can do ANYTHING

This is alot better drama than Garrison Keillor complaining about tshirts imho.

Hubris, you’re just as boring and nauseating as anyone else on this thread. It’s all fun to read and all, but stop being such a dork.

Hey guys, let’s not let the IQ of this thread go lower than the frat boys over in the Vikings blowjob thread.

MinneapolisHappyHour is changed!!! Oh man this site really works.

I am NEVER, EVER, EVER leaving town again. I’m sorry to have missed all this today.

To set the record straight…
An introduction: Hi everyone, if you’ve visited either MplsHappyHour.com or StPaulHappyHour.com lately, you’ll notice that it’s my name on there.

I really didn’t want to get involved in a public discussion about this, but since it appears as though Matt hasn’t wanted to answer any of my emails for the past year or more and wanted to make all this public, this is the only way I can set the record straight.

To be as brief as possible… Matt – first off, you look pretty silly in your post – jealous & pitiful. If you really did have any interest doing anything with the site, you would have done so for the year that you did nothing. In that time, our site was hacked, our code stolen. Of course I changed the passwords. It is entirely your fault for not emailing me back to get the info to log into the site again.

As to the site being outdated… I didn’t update the front page for quite some time out of respect for Matt’s last review – the remnants of when he actually did something with it. The rest of the site I started updating again, in the free time that I have. Oh, and the hundreds of hours that you & kirk put into the site? From what I know, you had “interns” enter all the info into the database. I did all the design, layout, coding (minus database – thank you Kirk), I host the site and own the domain name. None of this is yours thanks to no money ever exchanging hands. Also, if you recall – your brand – well, maybe you should stop drinking so much and do a memory check. Remember sitting over happy hour, you and I, deciding what would be the best name for the site? You may be the king of the hipsters, whatever that gets you, but this was and could still be a partnership.

Anyway, I know this all bores most of you, but I wanted to let everyone know that I have been updating the site as best as possible. If any of you loyals out there want to send me updated info or let me know if I’ve slacked off too much, feel free. I’ll plug it in. I’ve started listing a few shows (see the front page 400 Bar post) and have finally – thanks to this thread – decided to upate the front page.

One last thing – StPaulHappyHour.com is all mine, thanks to the database that Kirk gave me free reign to use and the design that I came up with fully and completely. I haven’t fully populated it yet, but I think that it will help to show people that there are actually cool places in St Paul to visit. And, to add a bit of controversy, I have Jeremy from theCitizen reviewing bars for me as well. Like it or not, I bet you’ll want to read it.

Anyway, thanks to all of you who like the sites, keep coming back as I don’t plan on having them go anywhere.

.Sherrise

Can we now please officially ban the word HIPSTER? how overused it really is…if someone were to call me a hipster I would be very upset.

Hey Hater,
You’re an undercover HIPSTER! There, I used the “H” word again. What else would be more appropriate: poseur, egomaniac, blowhard??? Hipster has that smarmy coolness to it that all of us love to loathe.

Who the hell are all these people?

Hipsters, of course!

Drama queen hipsters!

I don’t know about this whole discussion, but it seems pretty petty. Kudos to Sherrise for being so honest and cool, good luck to you, poop on Mplsmatt