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> it is a popular chat/social media mobile app used in India Indians of Hacker News, what are the likely candidates?

• revendell_elf 6y ago
  ShareChat may be? Or some video apps like TikTok
  • kylehotchkiss 6y ago
    Moj? That was the seemingly most viable TikTok alternative that cropped up.
• bgdam 6y ago
  Considering that this seems to have been code accidentally left in while copy pasting from a tutorial, it's very hard to say, without doing the exact same investigation the Wikimedia team did. There are a lot of apps that have launched in India around that time frame with huge numbers of users thanks to nationalistic rhetoric. They are terrible apps, but they are made in India terrible apps, and that apparently is enough to get a large following in India of late.
  • rossdavidh 6y ago
    To be fair, a nation has to make lots of terrible apps first, before they can make mediocre apps, and then good apps. The logic of wanting homegrown apps could still be correct, even though there is a painful period of terrible apps. Now, what the U.S. excuse is for its terrible apps, I'm not sure...
  • 908B64B197 6y ago
    > They are terrible apps, but they are made in India terrible apps, and that apparently is enough to get a large following in India of late. That's awesome! Every app has to start somewhere. I mean, even ISRO started by transporting rocket parts on bikes, and now has a satellite around Mars. https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/science-and-future/from-bicycle-to-a-billion-dreams-the-inspiring-history-of-isro-powering-india-s-space-fantasy-371930.html https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/science-and-future/fro...
• rob74 6y ago
  Yeah, guess that the Wikimedia guys are not adepts of the "name and shame" method. Although it would be entirely justified in this case, and stop people trying to guess it and implicating the wrong app...