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Early WhatsApp employees launch HalloApp—an antidote to contemporary social media

Early WhatsApp employees launch HalloApp—an antidote to contemporary social media
Written by Chandraveer Mathur
Jul 24, 2021, 03:20 pm 2 min read
Early WhatsApp employees launch HalloApp—an antidote to contemporary social media
Early WhatsApp employees launch their idea of utopian social media called HalloApp

Two of WhatsApp's earliest employees Neeraj Arora and Michael Donohue operationalized their new private social media network called HalloApp recently. The app is similar to WhatsApp in that it allows users to interact with close friends and family but the key difference is that HalloApp positions itself as the antidote to engagement-driven social media, the "21st-century cigarette." Here are more details.

Background
Arora was WhatsApp's chief business officer prior to Facebook acquisition

Currently, HalloApp has a 12-person team behind it and is using an undisclosed sum raised from investors to fuel their efforts. Both Arora and Donohue were WhatsApp employees before and after Facebook acquired the messaging service for $22 billion. Arora was instrumental in the Facebook deal since he was WhatsApp's Chief Business Officer until 2018. Meanwhile, Donohue served as WhatsApp's engineering director until 2019.

Minimal UI
HalloApp combines Facebook, WhatsApp; deletes elements detrimental to user experience

The Verge reported that HalloApp has four tabs—a primary feed of posts from your friends, group chats, personal one-on-one messages, and settings. Interestingly, there is no algorithm sorting the feed posts and group chats you see on the app's minimal user interface. In a blog post explaining the app's ideology, Arora said, "HalloApp is the first real-relationship network."

Utopia?
HalloApp will monetize using subscription system that unlocks more features

In the blog post, Arora touts HalloApp as a platform devoid of the usual contemporary social media fluff including bots, ads, likes, algorithms, followers, photo filters, misinformation, and "feed fatigue." While that positions HalloApp as the go-to utopian social media platform, it plans to eventually monetize by offering subscriptions that unlock additional features just like WhatsApp before it was acquired by Facebook.

Well worn path
Do Arora, Donohue share Brian Acton's idea of social media?

Arora and Donohue seem to have followed in the footsteps of WhatsApp co-founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton who quit Facebook over plans to monetize WhatsApp with ads. Acton now runs the not-for-profit Signal messaging service that shot to fame amid the Facebook-owned platform's privacy policy changes that drew flak globally. He even famously tweeted "#deletefacebook" during the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

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