Developer(s) Tom Scott, Matt Gray Operating system | Development status Discontinued Website emoj.li | |
Initial release 29 August 2014; 2 years ago (2014-08-29) | ||
Emojli was a social application for iOS and Android. Usernames could contain only emoji and users could only communicate using emoji within the app.
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History
Tom Scott and Matt Gray were inspired to create the app after seeing the success of Yo and the release of emoji characters by the Unicode Consortium. During a talk at Electromagnetic Field Festival, the developers commented that the app originated largely as a joke, but that by the time of launch 70,000 unique usernames had been reserved. The app was launched on 29 August 2014. After press coverage the developers began receiving offers for venture capital.
Due to the cost and effort of maintaining the application, the developers announced on 10 June 2015 that the service would close on 30 July.
Development
The back end of the app was coded by Scott in PHP and MySQL and the front end was designed and programmed by Gray in HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The pair remarked that they ran into problems as not all web browsers supported emoji, and mobile operating system support for them varies. All work on the app was done in their spare time and took a little over a month. An Android version was released on 30 January 2015.