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The question is, could anyone else raise enough money to get something like this started again after what Yik Yak became? VC funds likely won't want to touch something like Yik Yak for a while. At the very least a platform that so visibly enables anonymous coordination of harassment is unlikely to attract the advertisers or sponsors they would need to become profitable.


Is it possible to make an open source peer to peer version? Seems like something along the lines of ipfs or dat would be a good substrate.

Is it open source feasible in walled gardens like apple or google app stores? With respect to dev costs, permissions, tooling?


I've dabled a bit with creating something similar (but without the radius limitation), my current experiment runs over at https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmdsQExVDxp2EgERDZFn2Q7Q6Ldi3uH4XSpQTu4... but it's still missing being able to scale + easily be able to host supporting nodes for making the content stay around longer than the browser sessions. The repository is here: https://github.com/victorbjelkholm/tree-talk


I honestly thought that was the whole idea behind it. I think an app like this could be run for cheap, it's essentially a P2P messaging app.




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