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

Tom Scott · 1M views · 2014-08-30 · 30:58

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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.

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

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2016–2019

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jedimastert · 2019-10 · Recommendation

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 [VIDEO]

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angus-prune · 2018-11 · Recommendation

There is a wonderful talk by the founders of emoj.li about how it was all a joke which got out of hand. [VIDEO]

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qwertyuiop924 · 2016-12 · Recommendation

Tom Scott talked about this when he and Matt Grey made Emojli, the Emoji-only messenger. You can find their talk about it at [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.

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