Emojli: Behind the Scenes and Why You Should Never Build An App on HackerTube: recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 separate months, 2016–2019.
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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.
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.”
3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
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
in “How Untitled Goose Game became a real video game” · View on HN
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
in “Rot8000” · View on HN
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.
in “Why emojis are failing to evolve into a form of language” · View on HN