1M views · Aug 30, 2014 · 30:58 · 3 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2016–2019
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 points people here: Recommended as an entertaining story of a joke side project growing out of hand, brought up in threads on emoji and side projects.
“There is a wonderful talk by the founders of emoj.li about how it was all a joke which got out of hand.”HN comment, 2018
“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
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.
“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
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
“an emoji-only messenger app”
Entertaining story of a side project growing beyond expectations
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
