Emojli: Behind the Scenes and Why You Should Never Build An App
Tom Scott3 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2016–2019
talk · general · evergreen · 2016–2019 on HN
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.
Recommended as an entertaining story of a joke side project growing out of hand, brought up in threads on emoji and side projects.
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3 comments from Hacker News
For another entertaining "This went much farther than expected" but for two people who already had full time jobs and no desire to leave them, make a start up, or start a new business in any way, see Tom Scott and Matt Gray's Emojli: an emoji-only messenger app ▶ this video
There is a wonderful talk by the founders of emoj.li about how it was all a joke which got out of hand. ▶ this video
Tom Scott talked about this when he and Matt Grey made Emojli, the Emoji-only messenger. You can find their talk about it at ▶ this video However, given that HN is startup central, note that if you are involved in startups and easily offended, you might want to give this video a miss.