It was in early February when Chris, Mike and I sat down and decided to spontaneously apply for “Pitch In Berlin” at HackFwd. Hike had just cracked into the TOP 30 on the Facebook Developer Charts, app sales were growing constantly, and we were about to count our 100,000th fan on Facebook. After 7 months of die-hard bootstrapping, we felt that it was about time for Hike to leave the underground and present our “project” to people who know a thing or two about the startup scene. read more