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Emojli: Behind the Scenes and Why You Should Never Build An App

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What it is

Tom Scott and Matt Gray talk at Electromagnetic Field about making Emojli, an emoji-only messenger that began as a joke, how it was built and why they never want to do it again.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as an entertaining story of a joke side project growing out of hand, brought up in threads on emoji and side projects.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2019

What HN commenters said

  1. “Tom Scott talked about this when he and Matt Grey made Emojli, the Emoji-only messenger.”

    Tom Scott on building the Emojli emoji-only messenger

    qwertyuiop924, 2016-12 · Recommendation · in “Why emojis are failing to evolve into a form of language”

  2. “There is a wonderful talk by the founders of emoj.li about how it was all a joke which got out of hand.”

    Founders explain how a joke app got out of hand

    angus-prune, 2018-11 · Recommendation · in “Rot8000”

  3. “an emoji-only messenger app”

    Entertaining story of a side project growing beyond expectations

    jedimastert, 2019-10 · Recommendation · in “How Untitled Goose Game became a real video game”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: emojli, tom scott, emoji, app development, side projects

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