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Hi HN, I built a tool that lets you customise your own iOS 14 icons and download them for free. What do you think?

I think most would be targeted at business professionals that need a certain level of privacy. I don't see how a service like that could win over enough domestic users to make a de…

With 2 billion+ users worldwide, it's not surprising that Facebook's move has caused which a stir

I very much doubt a subscription based messaging app would take a big enough share to affect Facebook. Not to say that business can't successful make money. There must be people ou…

still wizardry for a lot of the elder generation I think

Hahahaha, brutal!

Haha, this is pretty much what i expect to hear from my mum who took year to figure out how to use WhatsApp

Yeah, i thought WhatsApp was the shit until I started using Telegram

Do you use the default messenger apps that come pre-installed or just non what-so-ever? And Why?

I like this. Didn't realise it was possible to set up auto responders on WhatsApp via Tasker. Thanks for this :-)

yeah, sounds like an impossible situation to get our of over there. also sounds like facebook have essentially monopolised messaging services in Mexio. I also read something simila…

Not really trying to hide as such, but I did become a father recently and my wife and I use WhatsApp to communicate with health professionals and sometime send sensitive images of …

Good point. The inconvenience to other is probably what i was worried most about but that is probably more their problem then mine

Yeah, the real selling points seems to be around the features. But i don't think people care enough about all that if majority of their friends are on WhatsApp.

As everyone must have seen today, facebook updated WhatsApps privacy policy to start sharing data collected from WhatsApp with other F*ckbook products. I'd love to switch but by do…

$19 billion according to wiki :-)

There is no backend :-) I use a JS library on the client to convert the SVGs to PNGs - https://www.npmjs.com/package/save-svg-as-png The zipping is also done on the client

Since iOS 14 came out I’ve been inspired to reorganise my home screen and really make it my own with custom widgets and icons. To do so I download a bunch of free and paid icon pac…

For some time now, i've been pondering the idea of how developing countries can use mesh networks to build smarter cities and get the next billion users connected to the internet. …