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Yo. A new app that makes you do one thing.

Last updated on June 30, 2014 By Ahmed Hamdy Leave a Comment

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The word seems so meaningless, yet we discovered that it can have a profound meaning.

It seems so simple. So mindless. It’s only slightly less boring than “Hey” or “Hi,” if only because of some perceived aggression or excitement attached to it. But Yo is anything but simple.

If you haven’t been following along on Twitter, Yo is the hottest new app that will leave you scratching your head. The entire premise of the app is to send other users a single word: Yo.

Yo currently has over 50,000 active users, after launching as a joke on April Fools’ Day. Users have sent over 4 million Yo’s to each other. Without ever having officially launched, co-founder and CEO Or Arbel managed to secure $1.2 million in funding from a list of unnamed investors, except for co-founder, angel, and Mobli CEO Moshe Hogeg, who participated in the round.

The app, called Yo, lets people say “Yo” to their friends. Tap a name on the app’s list of contacts, and a text notification saying “Yo” pops up on the recipient’s smartphone, along with a recorded voice shouting the syllable.

The idea is simple. It may turn out to be a dud. But $1 million has already been staked on its success.

Or Arbel, the chief executive of Yo, said on Wednesday that he had raised that seven-figure sum from a group of angel investors led by Moshe Hogeg, the chief executive of an image-sharing app called Mobli. Yo has so much potential, Mr. Arbel said, that last week he left his job as the chief technology officer of Stox, a stock trading platform he helped start last year, and moved to San Francisco from Tel Aviv to work on Yo full-time.

“People think it’s just an app that says ‘Yo.’ But it’s really not,” Mr. Arbel said. “We like to call it context-based messaging. You understand by the context what is being said.”

The app doesn’t have a lengthy signup process. It doesn’t even need an email address. All users have to do is download it, create a username and add friends. They can they yo each other at any time of the day. Not sure what will compel users to do this all day particularly when you can’t actually have a meaningful conversation through the app. Its only a matter of time before the novelty wears off I guess.

Apparently it took the developer only eight hours to create this application, which is certainly not surprising given that it stretches the minimalist concept far too thin. Yo is available as a free download for iOS and Android.

Filed Under: Android, Apple

About Ahmed Hamdy

Tech enthusiast with a main focus on Apple products and regular blogger on tech news and culture. Originally from Egypt now based in NY, USA.

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