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"Yo app expands to Windows Phone and gets more useful with IFTTT channel". "THE INSIDE STORY OF YO: How A 'Stupid' App Attracted Millions Of Dollars And Rocketed To The Top Of The App Store".
FedEx set up a service using the app through which users could receive a Yo when their package was being delivered. The app has an API, which has enabled developers and brands to send a Yo to groups of users, such as when the World Cup sent a Yo every time a goal was scored. Users can additionally send their location. The app enables users to send individual notifications to other users, simply containing the word " Yo". Arbel opened a Patreon account to continue funding maintenance of the app in 2018. Arbel and other employees had since moved on to other jobs, and Arbel described the app as running on "autopilot". The new version also enabled users to collect their friends in to groups so that they could "Yo" a number of people with 1 tap.
The user interface was updated to allow users to send photos or their location within 1 swipe and a tap from the home screen. In June 2015, Yo released the second version of their app with a number of new features. In October the same year, the app introduced functionality to enable users to send their location to other users. After the exploit was fixed, Arbel hired him to work for the company. On 20 June 2014, Isaiah Turner hacked the app, allowing him to retrieve any user's phone number and spam/spoof 'Yo's to any user.
#Yo whatsapp 2018 update#
The app's first content update was released in August 2014, adding extra functionality to it, including the ability to send web links and hashtags, and creating user profiles. Īrbel stated interest in expanding the app to include more functionality, including a possible feature which could be used by bloggers to send their followers a 'yo' with a link to the blog attached whenever they post an update the feature has since been implemented. The app was valued at between $5 and $10 million in the same month and received a further $1.5 million in funding. In July 2014 the app was also released for Windows Phone. Following a wide range of interest from investors, the app received USD$1 million in investment, including from Hogeg himself. The app was shared on the Product Hunt website, through which it exploded in popularity. The app was only shared with Mobli employees to start, however 20,000 people were using the app within the first month of release.
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It was launched on April Fools' Day 2014 for Android and iOS, though initially rejected by Apple for being too simple. Yo was created by Israeli developer Or Arbel in eight hours at the request of Moshe Hogeg, CEO of Mobli, who asked Arbel to design a single-button app to send a notification to his assistant or wife.