Topics
Latest
AI
Amazon
Image Credits:Explode app
Apps
Biotech & Health
Climate
Image Credits:Explode app
Cloud Computing
Commerce
Crypto
Gas app’s interface.Image Credits:Nikita Bier
Enterprise
EVs
Fintech
fund-raise
Gadgets
Gaming
Government & Policy
Hardware
layoff
Media & Entertainment
Meta
Microsoft
Privacy
Robotics
Security
societal
infinite
Startups
TikTok
Transportation
speculation
More from TechCrunch
Events
Startup Battlefield
StrictlyVC
Podcasts
Videos
Partner Content
TechCrunch Brand Studio
Crunchboard
Contact Us
Nikita Bier , creator of popular apps like the anon. polling app tbh ( acquired by Facebook ) and the anon. compliments app Gas ( develop by Discord ) , has create a unexampled app calledExplode , which focuses on go away messages on iMessage .
Explode works as a mini app for Apple ’s Messages app . It help you send disappearing content to other folks . user can see the text or effigy once , and then it … explode . The app block user from taking screenshots as well . In a post on X , Bier say that only the sender needs to have the Explode app .
While the app is free to download , users can bless up to Explode+ for $ 39.99 per year or $ 7.99 per month to unlock all feature . Paid drug user receive screenshot alerts , can block screenshots altogether , can replay photos that they antecedently send , and can lock photograph viewing after sending them .
peeress and gentlemen , I please to harbinger my latest app : Introducing Explode · station disappearing text & picture inside iMessage · Only the transmitter needs the app : Drop them right into your chats · Screenshots are blocked tooWhy did we build it ? Explode is a spite app . Yes , an…pic.twitter.com/mGwmoN28T8
Bier ’s posts on X about Explode pitch heavy toward takinga digatSnapchat . In a post , he order after he had talks with Snap about develop Gas , the social medium companionship kick Gas off of the SnapKit developer platform .
“ Two years ago , I met with Snapchat ’s chief executive officer to discuss get my former company . I openly shared how tight we were originate . Just a week after — over the Thanksgiving holiday — Snapchat kicked our app off the SnapKit political program , abruptly halting our growing , ” he suppose .
In a screenshot of an email seen by TechCrunch , Snap institutionalize an email to developer saying that Gas was using URL attachments to make friend recommendations without the denotative design of the transmitter — Snap thought this violate its insurance and attempted to repeat Snap ’s functionality . Bier said that Gas function on inter-group communication and did n’t rely on Snap ’s societal graph .
However , Snap was a major development driver for the app . In a place in October 2022 , Bier tell that23 % of Snapchat ’s U.S. drug user base had view a Gas chronicle . He tell that sharing a Gas public opinion poll with Snapchat was come out as a primary button in the app , and Snap ’s action broke the app for seven days .
Join us at TechCrunch Sessions: AI
Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI
Snap did n’t immediately comment on the account . Discord eventually acquiredGas in January 2023andshut it down in November 2023 .
pic.twitter.com/I70TjdFi8r
At the second , the app is only available in the U.S. and other countries like Canada , the U.K. , Australia , the U.S. , France , Germany , and Italy .
