An App that can only say "Yo", raises $1,000,000
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An App that can only say "Yo", raises $1,000,000
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06...on_dollar_app/
Yo :biggrin:
How much would you pay for an app that only allows users to send one word? A couple of quid?
Well, investors have forked out a good deal more to fund an app called Yo, which allows users to transmit just the word "yo" and nothing else.
The team has already raised $1m in funding and boasts 50,000 users who have sent a total of 4 million Yo messages.
Developer Or Arbel built the app in just eight hours. He claimed the “context-based communications” could be used by businesses as well as, well, youths who say "Yo".
Arbel moved from his home in Israel to San Francisco to launch the app, where he opened an office and began to hire staff.
"You usually understand what the Yo means based on who you get it from and when you get it," he said.
Its key appeal is that a message can be sent in just two clicks, rather than the 11 required to send a text with the message: "Yo."
Well, investors have forked out a good deal more to fund an app called Yo, which allows users to transmit just the word "yo" and nothing else.
The team has already raised $1m in funding and boasts 50,000 users who have sent a total of 4 million Yo messages.
Developer Or Arbel built the app in just eight hours. He claimed the “context-based communications” could be used by businesses as well as, well, youths who say "Yo".
Arbel moved from his home in Israel to San Francisco to launch the app, where he opened an office and began to hire staff.
"You usually understand what the Yo means based on who you get it from and when you get it," he said.
Its key appeal is that a message can be sent in just two clicks, rather than the 11 required to send a text with the message: "Yo."
Yo :biggrin:
