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    Tonight, a new application, local chat, Yolki , created using Glavstart, appeared in AppStore and GooglePlay .

    The idea of ​​Yolki came to Sergei Prokoshev and Eugene Boger 5 years ago at a lecture at the university, when they wanted to discuss the boring teacher and pass the time with the whole course. There is still no simple solution to this problem. So the foundation of the future application was laid the first fundamental principle.

    Simplicity

    All dynamics had to be reduced to three principles: he came, saw (thought) and wrote.

    So the user begins to communicate with his environment instantly. But for this it was necessary to establish a second fundamental principle.

    What else? Read on.

    Locality

    If information is structured, then it has great potential. In the case of Yolki, this filter is the territory where communication takes place. This type of information is not very outdated, and in the future it is a kind of knowledge. Communication inside Yolki is carried out in two sections: on the wall and in the rooms.

    Messages on the wall are loosely structured into threads, and rooms are an example of thematic communication. Creating rooms is the only paid service, which is a privilege, because It cannot be free due to the fact that everyone in this scenario wants to create an unlimited number of them and there will be a lot of territory without communication. All rooms can be divided into several types:



    The first type includes rooms "On the topic ...", closed and one on one. All of them have the same functionality, the difference of each is clear from the name.

    The second type is branded rooms. They are designed for commercial establishments that can use them to configure communication with customers or use as a book of reviews. The cost of creating such rooms is 10 times higher than usual, but they have two additional functions: a special icon, which confirms the officiality for which it was paid, and the function of fixing the location. Ordinary rooms are moved after the creator, and branded rooms can be fixed on the premises of the institution so that the owner, sitting at home, can watch the activity inside his restaurant, for example.

    The third type is special rooms from Yolki. So far, there are two of them: a review room and an Instagram room. The last one displays all photos of people who were taken within a radius of 3000 meters from the user's current position. These photos can be discussed on the wall, unsubscribe to the author on Instagram or add it to subscribers without going to the service itself. Those. Now it’s convenient to get acquainted with your neighbors or territory through this mechanism when visiting another region.


    In the future, the number of such services generating any content on the territory will be increased.

    Anonymity

    This principle applies to strong, but not fundamental, characteristics of the application. Yolki has no registration and authorization. In one click after installing the application, you are immersed in communication.

    At the first visit, each user has an anonymous profile, then he can create additional ones with distinctive characteristics. To keep a secret of his personality or not is his right.


    Multiple profiles allow you to quickly transform when you change the circle of communication or use this opportunity for gaming purposes - speak simultaneously on behalf of a girl and a man, for example.

    The main target audience of the application are: students and schoolchildren, as well as office staff. A potential territory for communication is any place where the concentration of people is high. At the first stage, there is a high probability that there will be no one to talk to, or the list of interlocutors will not be high. But from the second fundamental principle, this is even a plus.

    Potential and quality growth

    Yolki will become a global local communication tool and a source of interactive information from the scene for the media. Those. soon it will be possible to broadcast from anywhere in the world or to monitor what is happening there, what is being monitored.

    The AppStore and googleplay Yolki appeared May 22 in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Armenia and Azerbaijan.

    By the way, if you have an android, you can enter the special secret code welcomehabr and get free buns in the application.

    This is just the first version of the application, therefore, if errors are found and wishes arise, it is better not to kick, but write to hello@yolki.cc.

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