alt Hacker NewsHates users who are not total normies and designed explicitly for normies are not opposite. In fact an app that hates not normies would be designed for explicitly for normies.
> Easily? There's no easy in maintaining and releasing two different versions of your app, especially for a small non-profit.
It's literally just another job on your CI. They got a 50 million seed donation in 2017 and reported almost 30 million in revenue in 2024. They are not exactly small. If they were VC founded and not a non profit they would be a unicorn.
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> They got a 50 million seed donation in 2017 and reported almost 30 million in revenue in 2024. They are not exactly small. If they were VC founded and not a non profit they would be a unicorn.
The donation to Signal and VC investment are very different things: Donations to Signal are for operating costs. VCs invest for the purpose of enabling and owning a share of exponential growth to 'unicorn' status.
> unicorn
Unicorns are billion dollar companies that are rapidly growing. Signal isn't close to that.
>reported almost 30 million in revenue in 2024
You're misreading. In 2024 they had $415k of revenue against $1.4 million in expenses, with $28.7M in assets (which I assume is what you're confusing). Assets have been steadily declining since 2022 as expenses have been consistently higher than revenue.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/816...