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Comment by wkat4242 | Hacker News Reader

Nice idea but without worldwide availability and and Android version there's no chance for it.

Here in Spain Android is about 70% of the mobile market.

But nice idea in general. It would also be nice to be able to unshare or blacklist contacts (like pushy sales guys that keep bothering me for stuff I have nothing to do with)

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100% agree. I'm hoping to add Android and other markets in the not too distant future. As for unsharing, that's possible by removing a recipient and I have plans to help even more in the scenario you describe.

Yeah I know it's tough when you're a sole dev.

I had a (freeware, no ads) app in the iOS app store in the past. People kept asking if I'd make an Android version. Makes sense. In the end I had to stop it altogether. It was mainly an academic project that got out of hand and I didn't have time to learn Android devving as well.

Eh, why does an app need to serve the entire world to have any chance? Snapchat was iOS only for the longest time.

Because it's an app used to share contact details. If more than half the people can't use it (and the people that can will not have a 100% uptake) there isn't much point in using it. It'll be a novelty for that one time you find someone you can actually use it with.

And Snapchat is one of many messaging apps. Personally I've never used it and I have 6 different chat apps on my phone :) This thing is a really new idea and it only really works if it becomes a standard. People are not going to carry 6 different contact card sharing apps because it'll be a mess.

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