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

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[Kylemsguy]

"The first 80% of software development is the easy part. The hard part is the next 80%."

[smurfy]

4:44
As the person who did register the smiley face account, I apologise

[TorreFernand]

"Time magazine is just buzzfeed but they're not admitting it" may be the saddest truth I've heard in years

[drpibisback]

The wails of "NOOOO!!!" when Tom said Emojili was in PHP were incredible. Those were some horrified nerds.

[boiledelephant]

"I'm reasonably certain in the security of the stuff we're storing..."
*[raucous laughter from audience of hackers]*

[em__]

10:33 it takes tom less than 1/2 of a second to go from calm chill dude to panic mode
his abilities are too evolved

[guyjay]

Tom: "You have to list on your Data Protection Act submission the possible things you might be storing about people... and it includes details about people's sexuality. And I went "Well no, obviously not, that's not, Emoji-" There's a two men holding hands Emoji that you could use- oh for god's sake..."
Guy: "Sorry!"
Tom: "Thank you, Tom! What's your username Tom?"
Guy: "™️👬"

I lost it

[Martinawa]

-Hi, I'm Matt
-And I'm Tom

And there's me expecting a park bench.

[samiraperi]

I was going to argue with "no browser supports emojis" but then I looked at the upload date.

[junedug]

Sometimes I wonder if Tom just has 20 identical red shirts in his closet.

[yukariyoshisaki]

"tom was doing the front end, i was doing to back end"
well done, now this video needs an age restriction

[naotak]

Tom, I had a dream last night that I met you somewhere, and you weren't wearing a red t-shirt. I was really upset about that.

[kerenk]

I love that this talk is just 30 minutes of Tom being pissed

[anarfox]

At my company, we got so tired of Apples push notifications that we ended up using a third party service for a customer project.

[gwenynorisu]

This is one of THOSE type of stories. The best ones where you're basically recounting a long sequence of things being done absolutely as wrong as they could be, yet somehow nobody died, and even though you were the people responsible for most of the horror you still don't understand how it worked. Sort of like my brother's old stories of D&D GM'ing with a bunch of mates who were really, really bad at D&D and totally disinterested in playing the game properly...

[tetamusha]

I think that goes not only for apps, but any type of software. Just because you have the technical skills to do something (sometimes not even that) and you think it would be cool, doesn't mean you have the skills to go through with it all the way to the end. Building software for the public involves a lot of legal aspects (like all that data security stuff) as well as social ones (troubleshooting, moderating, meetings with stakeholders etc.) that most developers just don't like to do.

[mojosbigsticks]

5 years later Tom Scott manged to monetise the app, by making a YouTube series on "How To Build An App".

[unusuallight]

Matt was years ahead of the competition in using web languages for an app. Now web apps are all the rage now and are everywhere now

[iirelu]

You always do the best talks and the dynamics of a co-hosted talk like this were lovely. I want to watch more co-hosted talks now.

[weesalikesmilktea]

"Are we going to do anything?"
"No."
*high five*