{"id":1154,"date":"2014-02-23T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/how-jan-koum-built-whatsapp-into-facebooks-new\/"},"modified":"2014-02-23T19:51:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T19:51:00","slug":"how-jan-koum-built-whatsapp-into-facebooks-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/how-jan-koum-built-whatsapp-into-facebooks-new\/","title":{"rendered":"How Jan Koum Built WhatsApp Into Facebook&#8217;s New $19 Billion Baby &#8211; Forbes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/parmyolson\/2014\/02\/19\/exclusive-inside-story-how-jan-koum-built-whatsapp-into-facebooks-new-19-billion-baby\/'>How Jan Koum Built WhatsApp Into Facebook&#8217;s New $19 Billion Baby &#8211; Forbes<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<div class=\"votearrow rotate180\" title=\"downvote\"><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/user?id=gberger\">gberger<\/a>\u00a01 hour ago |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=7286737\">link<\/a><\/div>\n<p>It&rsquo;s interesting to see that he promotes the app by mentioning the status feature, which is rarely used nowadays (at least in my experience).<\/p>\n<p><u><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/reply?id=7286737&amp;whence=%69%74%65%6d%3f%69%64%3d%37%32%38%36%33%39%37\">reply<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/s.gif\" width=\"40\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"votearrow\" title=\"upvote\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"votearrow rotate180\" title=\"downvote\"><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/user?id=SifJar\">SifJar<\/a>\u00a01 hour ago |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=7286807\">link<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Back then, that&rsquo;s all it had. At the start, you could update your current status and see all your contacts&rsquo; statuses. When iOS added push notifications, it got updated so you could get notifications of friends&rsquo; status updates without opening the app. It wasn&rsquo;t until version 2.0 (at least a couple of months after the forum post linked here) that the messaging functionality was added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Jan Koum Built WhatsApp Into Facebook&#8217;s New $19 Billion Baby &#8211; Forbes gberger\u00a01 hour ago |\u00a0link It&rsquo;s interesting to see that he promotes the app by mentioning the status feature, which is rarely used nowadays (at least in my experience). reply SifJar\u00a01 hour ago |\u00a0link Back then, that&rsquo;s all it had. At the start, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}