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Secret Is Working On New Apps, Won’t Shut Down Original Product
Secret Inc. — makers of the”anonymish” app Secret, which lets users post notes to friends, friends-of-friends, or those in their vicinity without revealing their identities — crashed through the highs and lows of startup life in the last year, generating a lot of interest and notoriety for its gossipy, eponymous app, and then almost as quickly disappearing off the… Read More
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Spayce Takes On Yik Yak With A Location-Based Social App For Sharing “Moments,” Not Gossip
While popular location-based social app Yik Yak struggles amid controversy and on-campus bannings, a newcomer called Spayce is gearing up to compete with its own take on local social networking. Its few-weeks-old app forgoes anonymity by default, and instead encourages community members to share their photo and video “memories” happening around a given location, whether that’s… Read More
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Yik Yak Quietly Dropped From Google Play Charts In October
If the rise of anonymous apps has proven anything, it’s that humans can be ugly creatures when the social pressures that keep our baser natures in check are removed, and we’re allowed to share our darker sentiments and thoughts – sometimes, for nothing more than the cheap thrill of knowing they’ve caused others outrage. Case in point: Yik Yak, the latest app to… Read More
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Yik Yak Systematically Downvotes Mentions Of Competitors
You can say anything on Yik Yak, as long as it’s not a competing app’s name. The anonymous app has quietly built a system that downvotes any mentions of several other apps for college kids including Fade, Sneek, and Unseen until no one can see them.
By adding one downvote per minute, Yik Yak makes it look like other anonymous users dislike these posts. But tests in isolation… Read More
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Few Winners In Anonymous Social Networking, And Secret’s Not One Of Them
Is anonymous social networking a flash-in-pan trend? A winner-take-all category? Which of the anonymous social networking apps around today are still thriving, and which are practically dead? These questions come to mind today as one of the leading companies in the “anonymous social” category, Secret, revamped its application, borrowing ideas from popular apps like Yik Yak and… Read More
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Yik Yak Gets A Much-Needed Makeover
It’s been about three months since anonymous messaging app Yik Yak raised their first major round of funding ($1.5 million led by Vaizra Investments, DCM, and Azure Capital Partners), and already the app has released a major update.
The app, which has traditionally been incredibly ugly (just being honest), now has a slick new design with a much-refined user experience. Read More
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