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

    Tom Scott

    3 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2016–2019

    YouTube

    30:58 · 1M views · Aug 30, 2014

    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

    1. @qwertyuiop924Dec 2016· in “Why emojis are failing to evolve into a form of language”

      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.

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    2. @jedimastertOct 2019· in “How Untitled Goose Game became a real video game”

      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

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    3. @angus-pruneNov 2018· in “Rot8000”

      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

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