Hike messaging app or Hike Sticker Chat has been shelved citing lack of ability to compete with overseas messaging apps. The free cross-platform prompt messaging utility was launched in 2012 and CEO Kavin Bharti Mittal introduced earlier this month that they are going to be drawing the curtains quickly. In a tweet made on 6 January, Mittal mentioned: “Today we’re announcing that we will be sunsetting StickerChat in Jan’21. We thank you all for giving us your trust. We wouldn’t be here without you”. He added that the agency was being reimagined as ‘Vibe and Rush’ which may have Hike’s particular emojis and its title: Vibe by Hike.
No readability has been given behind the closing down of the app, customers of Hike Messenger can get their conversations and knowledge downloaded from throughout the app itself.
2/ First off → HikeLand.
Last month I spoke about 30Ok new friendships are being shaped each month on HikeLand.
In 2021, we’ll double down. However in a brand new avatar.https://t.co/iaJkLEG5M2
— Kavin Bharti Mittal (@kavinbm) January 6, 2021
While Vibe might be an “approval-only community”, Rush goes to be a “bite-sized gaming service”. It is to be famous right here that Vibe by Hike was beforehand often called HikeLand.
Just a few days later, Mittal declared that “India won’t have its own messenger”. His feedback come whereas your complete nation was erupting over the brand new privateness coverage of WhatsApp, a messaging app utilized by the vast majority of Indians. After the information of its privateness coverage unfold, folks have been urging everybody to shift to different apps like Telegram and Signal. This backlash in the end led WhatsApp to delay their new coverage by three months.
Mittal additionally wrote that international firms like Telegram and Signal have been too sturdy and except India bans overseas companies, it’s troublesome for homegrown apps like Hike to make an affect. He opined that each Signal and Telegram have been higher than Facebook-owned firms (WhatsApp) as entities.
India gained’t have its personal messenger.
Global community results are too sturdy (except India bans Western firms)@telegram UX, Groups higher than @signalapp
Both are superb. As entities they’ve the precise incentives (extra aligned with customers) not like FB merchandise.
— Kavin Bharti Mittal (@kavinbm) January 10, 2021
Now the app Hike Sticker Chat is not accessible to obtain from each the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store. While no readability has been given behind the closing down of the app, customers of Hike Messenger can get their conversations and knowledge downloaded from throughout the app itself.